For a time he worked as cover artist for the Spectator but, in 1992, he moved to the Times, as its leader-page cartoonist, at the invitation of its newly appointed editor, Peter Stothard.
In 2010 his memoir On the Spartacus Road combined an account of the Spartacus uprising with elements of autobiography.
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Stothard appears as a character briefly in the first scene of a one-level Tomb Raider expansion videogame made by Core Design in association with The Times.
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He is married to the novelist and travel writer Sally Emerson and has a son, Michael (born 1987), and a daughter, Anna (born 1983).
Barring the question of age, a more appropriate model for Boot may be William Beach Thomas who, according to Peter Stothard, "was a quietly successful countryside columnist and literary gent who became a calamitous Daily Mail war correspondent" in World War I.
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