Nicholas Lezard
Nicholas Lezard is a literary critic for the Guardian and also writes for the Independent. He writes the Down and Out in London column for the New Statesman.
Articles by Nicholas Lezard
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Society
In the relegation zone
- 04 June 2009
When you don’t have enough money to buy the cheapest bottle of wine, it’s hard to feel for the financial plight of Premiership footballers
Life & Society
Fortune's game-wheel
- 28 May 2009
If you won’t give to beggars, you’re going to have to work hard at becoming a friend of mine
Society
The last outpost of Bohemia
- 21 May 2009
I may be surviving on carpet lint and the charity of friends, but at least I don’t have to get up in the morning
Society
You’re not the boss of me
- 14 May 2009
- 1 comment
At my local pub, I am reminded that Britain is becoming a vast public urinal monitored by cameras
Sport
Play the straight bat
- 07 May 2009
In Acton, my son’s cricket team thrash the opposition mercilessly. This is riches undreamt of: I know what it feels like to be Australian
Life & Society
Love is in the air
- 30 April 2009
My advice for people in new relationships: you might be all smoochy now, but in 20 years you’ll be fighting like rats in a sack
Lifestyle
I was the original Idler
- 23 April 2009
Our boulevardier columnist takes a rare trip to the countryside, which he finds – surprisingly – much to his taste. There are even bees
Lifestyle
Boredom and despair in W1
- 16 April 2009
I have no money, and no company apart from a plague of insubordinate mice. I would take a bath – only it might make the flat cave in
Life & Society
Down and out in London
- 09 April 2009
My mate and I scrounge off each other, like climbers scaling a cliff that would defeat solitary mountaineers
Life & Society
Down and out in London
- 02 April 2009
- 1 comment
“Lazy, selfish, borderline alcoholic” – what an enticing prospect for the next Mrs Lezard
