Digested week: from the nonsensical to the ridiculous – Boris Johnson comes to town | Emma Brockes

A spat at the Met Gala, Harry’s hair and strained tolerance for the British PM as New York opens up

With terrible, split-screen clarity, it was possible to watch the interplay this week between the way Boris Johnson sees himself and the way others – specifically, foreign heads of state – see him. There he was on Monday, rocking up at the UN in New York prior to a week of diplomacy in the US, cutting what he surely imagines to be his customary dash. To everyone else, he had about him the low-rent sheepishness of a man caught with an off-peak ticket at rush hour.

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