Nicholas Lezard

5 days ago | msn.com | Nicholas Lezard

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

5 days ago | standard.co.uk | Nicholas Lezard

CommentNicholas Lezard2 minutes agoGet our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysisI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Seven years ago, London spat me out. This was not something I had ever imagined possible — until it happened. London was in my blood; people with my surname — and we’re all related — have been in London for centuries. I had no intention of leaving the place.

2 weeks ago | newstatesman.com | Nicholas Lezard

Another day of nice weather and a kind of spring madness is beginning to take over. This comes in the form of a mild wanderlust,  coupled with the realisation that this might be my last summer in (relatively) good health, and this year I ought to take advantage of it. I have spent too long holed up in the Hove-l, sometimes not even venturing from the bedroom for days on end except to eat, and the typical aftermath of eating.

3 weeks ago | newstatesman.com | Nicholas Lezard

As we stagger into the cruellest month and the days start getting longer than the nights, Brighton begins to stir again. Not that it had  ever really stopped. But the seagulls begin to sound less mocking in spring weather than they do in the dark; the dossers are a little less woebegone; and I can open the windows at the back and front ends of the Hove-l so a draught can blow away the fusty air. This is particularly welcome.

4 weeks ago | newstatesman.com | Nicholas Lezard

There has been some grim news lately, God knows, but on St Patrick’s Day the Daily Mail came up with a front-page headline that cheered me up to no end: “DEATH OF THE WORK ETHIC”. Finally, I thought. I have been fighting the work ethic ever since I was first given homework, which severely cut into my free time at home – time that could have been better spent, in my view, by staring at the walls and saying, “I’m bored.” Actually, I didn’t do that.