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Boris Johnson's Tree House

The story of the tree house somehow still retains the power to shock, if only as a reminder that there really is no beginning to the prime minister's financial morality. The fact that a child's pleasure dome was being decreed at the very same time johnson was demanding his m ps voted against a plea to extend free school meals for the poorest children over the christmas holidays locates it even more firmly in the realms of the grotesque. Do picture the johnsons telling the cameras? I think we'd call our aesthetic for the project, m ps enses meets louis cators. Think duck house, except with bullet proof glass and costing a full 91 times as much.

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