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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Lucy Mangan

Digested week: Dorries crusade crowns these hot, stinking, cardiganless days

Boris Johnson
‘Thought I’d better put my years of serving up any old shit to good use, what?’ Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA


Monday

It’s just possible that this has been said before but … it’s too hot. I’m sorry. It’s all I can think about. Because there’s the heat – the external stuff, coming from the sun, rising from the pavements, radiating from baked houses, the unmoving inescapable hot air wrapped round you with no relief – and then there’s the internal fire of hatred boiling my blood about how much I loathe this weather, about how ill-designed London is for coping with it, about how much I miss my cardigans, about how impossible it is to imagine ever being cool or comfortable again.

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