Weighing the options in a country where nothing works any more
Should I give it another quarter of an hour, or cut my losses, get off the train, and drink myself into oblivion?
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Nicholas Lezard writes the Down and Out column for the New Statesman.
Should I give it another quarter of an hour, or cut my losses, get off the train, and drink myself into oblivion?
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