Power comes and goes – I never seem to have it for long
What with my ex-MP and the internet, I feel connected again
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Nicholas Lezard
Nicholas Lezard writes the Down and Out column for the New Statesman.
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A missing delivery presents me with a terrible moral quandary
Tracking down the lost package I feel like a spymaster
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Alas, the bailiffs are at my door again
The pimple on the bum of humanity in front of me was waving a piece of paper with a…
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On Hampstead Heath and Southern Railway, I am marooned
I was part of a social experiment in which people have to get to Brighton at weekends without using…
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The perils of black denim
Why doesn’t it wear as well as blue?
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I dream and smell of festive roast goose
It turns out that fatty food does not make my gallstones howl in agony
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I am beset by boredom, a rare condition that’s not good for me
I forgot Damon Runyon’s name for the entire time it took me to walk from Waitrose to my flat
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Never recommend Philip Roth to your mother
Her face was a mask of horror
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I receive a message from beyond the grave. It comes dressed in Nordic socks
In memory of Ian Marchant, a brilliant writer and creative smuggler
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