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Winnie Au photographed Lulu Lytle for The Wall Street Journal. 

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These are actually images of the designers flat that show her style. However, this still doesn't mean that he didn't look at this image and say "I want this. Call Lulu Lytle immediately." Which I think is also funny because yikes.

I promise I'll shut up about UK politics soon, but not a day goes by without another Tory scandal and today the invoice for Boris Johnson's £200,000 No. 11 renovations leaked, and while it reveals there were some fascinating choices made (like £500 for a table cloth, £7,000 for a rug, £6,000 for a lamp, £3,675 for a trolley, all while Boris's government has plunged the country into poverty), some of you may not know what these renovations look like and...

well...

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Lulu Lytle, the designer-decorator behind Soane Britain

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Exclusive: Items ordered by Boris Johnson and wife Carrie from Lulu Lytle include £2,260 worth of ‘gold wallpaper’ and a £500 table cloth

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Cummings accuses PM of encouraging attacks on junior staff over No 10 parties | Boris Johnson | The Guardian

Dominic Cummings has accused Boris Johnson of encouraging attacks on junior civil servants over the “partygate” scandal in order to protect himself and his wife, Carrie.

The prime minister’s onetime senior aide said senior officials had “turned a blind eye” to his behaviour. He referred to briefing against one No 10 private secretary, Hannah Young. It has emerged that her leaving party on 18 June led to the first fines announced this week.

Reports after some of the parties involving civil servants included a staff member breaking a swing in the garden belonging to the Johnsons’ son Wilfred, a suitcase of alcohol being purchased from a nearby Co-op and one staff member acting as a DJ.

A total of 20 fixed-penalty notices have been issued to staff who broke lockdown rules. Johnson had previously told parliament when the allegations first came to light in November 2021 that “all guidance was followed completely in No 10”.

In his latest blog, with an excerpt posted on Twitter, Cummings said: “It is deeply, deeply contemptible that not just the PM but senior civil servants have allowed such people to have their reputations attacked in order to protect the sociopathic narcissist squatting in the No 10 flat.

“Not just ‘allowed’ – everybody at the centre of events also knows that the PM encouraged the media attacks on junior officials in order to divert the lobby’s attention from him and Carrie breaking the law. Some very senior officials have turned a blind eye.”

Carrie is reported to have had parties in their Downing Street flat, while Boris had a surprise birthday party in 2020 attended by up to 30 staff, as well as the couple’s interior designer, Lulu Lytle.

Young “did a truly phenomenal job”, and “made us all safer” during Covid and while coordinating a response to a terrorist incident, Cummings said.

On Friday officials in Downing Street started to get emails saying they were being fined £50 for attending parties, days after the Metropolitan police confirmed they were handing out the notices.

Detectives are investigating 12 events in 2020 and 2021, six of which Johnson is said to have been at. The Met has said it has received more than 300 photographs and 500 pages of documents after a Whitehall inquiry by senior civil servant Sue Gray.

In an appearance before a parliamentary select committee and in statements from his spokesperson after the fines this week, Johnson refused to accept that the law had been broken.

In response to a question from the Scottish National party MP Pete Wishart during his Commons liaison committee session, Johnson said: “I have been, I hope, very frank with the House about where I think we have gone wrong and the things that I regret, and I apologise for, but there is an ongoing investigation.

“I understand the point you’re making, but … I have been very clear I won’t give running commentary on an ongoing investigation.”  ...

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TALK OF THE TOWN: Controversial Downing Street designer Lulu Lytle comes out fighting

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(via Egyptomania, Portobello Market, Camels, Whippets and Ottoman textiles, At home in London by Lulu Lytle - Bible of British Taste)

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Turismo de Portugal promove destino "original e alternativo" para britânicos

Desde a pandemia de Covid-19 que os britânicos olham mais para Portugal como um destino "original e alternativo" às férias com "sol e praia", afirmou este sábado o presidente do Turismo de Portugal, Luís Araújo, no FTWeekend Festival, em Londres.

Foi com o objetivo de promover esta imagem que a entidade fez uma parceria com o jornal Financial Times no FTWeekend Festival, um evento onde escritores, cientistas, políticos, cozinheiros, artistas e jornalistas protagonizam palestras e debates discutem temas como o clima, ambiente ou cultura.

"Depois destes dois anos de pandemia, aquilo que nós percebemos é que as pessoas queriam coisas diferentes, originais, alternativas, que tenham uma ligação grande com a componente do planeta, das pessoas, com a sustentabilidade a servir de chapéu", afirmou Araújo à Agência Lusa.

O evento, destinado a um público de "segmento alto", explicou, é "uma oportunidade para, saindo da bolha do turismo ou das viagens, associar a marca Portugal (...) às artes, arquitetura, finanças, tecnologia".

Realizado desde 2916 no parque de Hampstead Heath, no norte de Londres, o FTWeekend Festival atrai anualmente mais de 3.000 pessoas, sendo o preço do bilhete normal de acesso 119 libras (138 euros).

Entre os oradores e participantes estiveram o empresário e opositor russo Mikhail Khodorkovsky, o antigo ministro da Saúde Matt Hancock, a cozinheira Nadiya Hussain ou a decoradora de interiores Lulu Lytle.

O programa incluiu três painéis dedicados especificamente a Portugal, nomeadamente uma prova de vinhos portugueses conduzida pelas críticas Jancis Robinson e Julia Harding, um 'workshop' onde o 'chef' Nuno Mendes, que abriu este ano o restaurante Lisboa em Londres, cozinhou bacalhau à brás e arroz de marisco, e uma conversa de Luís Araújo com o surfista profissional português Nic Von Rupp sobre as ondas da Nazaré.

"Queremos mostrar um Portugal diferente, que se preparou durante estes dois anos, e que está mais do que pronto para receber turistas que procuram destinos alternativos. O Douro, o Porto e Norte foram das regiões que mais cresceram nos últimos anos, juntamente com a região Centro, o Alentejo e os Açores", vincou o presidente do Turismo de Portugal.

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Leaked £200,000 list reveals £2,250 ‘gold’ wallpaper in Boris’ refurb plans

Leaked £200,000 list reveals £2,250 ‘gold’ wallpaper in Boris’ refurb plans

A leaked list of suggested items for the Number 11 refurb exceeded £200,000 A leaked copy of an estimate for renovations at Boris Johnson’s Downing Street flat shows he had some extravagant plans for the place. Items on the list – in excess of £200,000 – include the infamous ‘hand-crafted’ gold wallpaper, said to have cost a total of £2,250. Other items suggested by designer Lulu Lytle included a…

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The Tragedy of Boris Johnson! The Messengers Spoke. The Chorus Wailed. The Hero Fell

— Britain | A Classicist Falls | The Economist | July 7, 2022

Aeschylus could hardly have written it better. As few will know better than the Latin-quoting, classics-loving Boris Johnson himself, his path through life—which began as a knockabout phallic comedy, then gleamed with moments of heroic epic during the pandemic—has this week conformed beautifully to the conventions of Greek tragedy.

The scene had long been set for the hero’s downfall. The audience was primed. A tragic chorus was ululating on Twitter. The messenger speeches, which always appear just before the climax of a Greek tragedy, to warn the hero that his end is upon him, had (all 50 or so of them) been read.

Granted, neither Rishi Sunak’s prose (“We both want a low-tax, high-growth economy”) nor Sajid Javid’s (“I have been working hard on wider modernisation of the nhs”) could be easily confused with that of Sophocles. But then few modern statesmen would dare to say, as Sophocles did: “There are many terrible things, but there is nothing more terrible than man.”

Few, but not no one. Because Mr Johnson quoted that line himself, in a speech to the un in 2021. Or to be more precise, he said it in the original Greek, to an audience who were charmed by it. People often adored Mr Johnson when he spoke. Pericles’s “Funeral Oration” could hardly have been received with more adoration than Mr Johnson’s speech to the Ukrainian parliament that ended in a standing ovation.

And that was the tragedy of the man. The tragic hero is not, according to Aristotle, wholly terrible—for where would be the fun in that? A really good show (and both tragedy and Mr Johnson’s premiership were lurid forms of entertainment) demands something more complex. It demands that a character must be eminent but there must also be “hamartia”, a tragic flaw that brings them “from happiness to misery”. The flaw can be profound—or surprisingly trivial. The Greek hero Agamemnon was undone by soft furnishings chosen by his wife—not too-fancy Lulu Lytle wallpaper but a too-fancy carpet. Doubtless Mr Johnson would sympathise.

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson had been blessed by the gods with every attribute: breeding, brilliance, ambition (to be “world king”) and, in his youth, a stripling Apollonian beauty. And then he squandered them. For Mr Johnson had not merely one flaw, but many. Dishonesty, arrogance, sexual incontinence, incompetence, an infantile irresponsibility. The deities bless you. Then they ruin you—for added fun, by your own hand. Tiresias, a Greek prophet, didn’t need to see into the future to foresee the fall of one tragic hero: “I am judging from his own senseless actions.”

In tragedy, they ruin you in a way that is fun to watch. For Aristotle’s final rule for tragedy was that it should end in “catharsis”—that satisfying moment when the bloodied hero is washed offstage and everyone can go back to life as it was. And here, again, Mr Johnson has (for once) been following the rules. For there is a moment at the climax of every Greek tragedy when it has long been painfully clear to all—to the other characters on stage, to the grumbling chorus and certainly to the audience, who will by this point be feeling restive—that the hero is done for, that the play is over, that it is time to go home.

And yet the flawed, deluded hero somehow does not. When the gods wish to destroy you, as Sophocles had it, they first meddle with your mind. Or, in the case of Mr Johnson, they make you wait until half past midday on July 7th, to appear on the threshold of 10 Downing Street, and resign. ■

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'And this is Boris and Carrie as Agnetha and Anni-Frid': Sue Gray talks you through her photo album

‘And this is Boris and Carrie as Agnetha and Anni-Frid’: Sue Gray talks you through her photo album

SUE Gray’s 300 photos of Downing Street parties take the viewer on quite a journey. Let her be your guide:  This is Boris cutting into a Union Jack cake while wearing a plastic Union Jack hat. It’s from his birthday. Look, there’s Lulu Lytle trying to find out who was going to pay her. Rishi’s saying ‘it’s nothing to do with me love’ and Carrie’s glaring at him. This is the socially distanced…