“Seriously, Boris. What am I going to say that doesn’t make me look like a hopeless numpty?”

numpty 愚かな人

Keep up this level of incompetence and you’ll be in line for a peerage. 

Peerage 貴族

I’m off on my hols. 

Holiday

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/17/you-stupid-boy-boris-ticks-private-williamson-off-over-exams-u-turn

She leveraged that experience – and her celebrity – to detail in plaintive terms a country in desperate shape.

plaintive 悲哀を帯びた mournful

https://www.reuters.com/live-events/democratic-national-convention-2020-2-id2936314

Praise myself:

1. Wrote a review
2. Played Shopify
3. Showed photos
4. Did full virus check
5. Scrubbed with critic acid water