The Chancellor takes me back to 2013, Watership Down and being in love
In growth terms we are being taken back a decade – as I struggle with Microsoft Teams I wonder whether that would be so bad.
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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.
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It is just as my resources run dry that direct debits make a direct line for me
I’m still being billed for a dating site I last used 15 years ago – perhaps I’m not allowed…
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As Trussonomics looms, when will I be able to afford to eat eggs Benedict again?
The number of people who will be qualified to write their own “Down and Out” column is about to…
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My brush with King Charles 22 years ago still feels like it was yesterday. It was that bad
After an awkward hour with John Major, Stephen Fry and the future monarch, I opted for a life of…
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Even when the country is circling the plughole, pleasant things can happen
On the night Tory members’ votes were being counted, there was an incredible thunderstorm off the Sussex coast.
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With a new resident in Downing Street, I survey 15 years of personal austerity
It is a decade and a half to the day since my life of insecurity and cheap furniture began.
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I am moping, having learned again that the heart does what it bloody well wants
I knew she was clever and funny but I wasn’t prepared for, well, the whole package.
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Never mind hard-working families – what about occasionally working single people?
I wonder if I should count the cat as a cohabitee. Or what about the wasps?
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Buying a nine-pack of loo rolls, I worry they might outlive me
Why do the doctors call it a “chest” X-ray? Surely they mean “lung”.
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