When your friend is stabbed, your own problems become mere annoyances
If I have a superpower it is cheering people up, but N— already has a staggering capacity for honesty, survival and mirth.
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Nicholas Lezard writes the Down and Out column for the New Statesman.
If I have a superpower it is cheering people up, but N— already has a staggering capacity for honesty, survival and mirth.
By Nicholas LezardAt the moment I am conducting an experiment as to how long I can go without a toaster. It’s…
By Nicholas LezardI am floored by GI problems – which is what we people who have doctors in the family call…
By Nicholas LezardAfter a visit to the Polyclinic, I now have to wait for my results. Scanxiety, I believe it’s called.
By Nicholas LezardWhen we were young we orbited P-J the way the planets orbit the sun. And now he has gone.
By Nicholas LezardI am transported back to Soho in the early 2000s, when a possible future rolled itself before me.
By Nicholas LezardYou know why chefs are skinny and have explosive tempers? Because their mothers try to help them in the…
By Nicholas LezardThatcherism was seemingly never-ending and I was a young freelancer, desperate for ideas.
By Nicholas LezardI nearly made it two days in a row, but the deal on Graham’s Late Bottled Vintage was simply…
By Nicholas Lezard