A family affair.(Low life)(Column)

Publication: Spectator

Publication Date: 23-JUL-05

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At Pamplona for the running of the bulls, my usual spiritual, mental and physical meltdown occurred, as usual, about the fourth day. As usual I visited that awful place lit by the shocking white light of alcoholic truth and as usual I'd been frightened. And as usual I'd come home feeling a little shriven, while yet marvelling at the new depths of despair and degradation that I'd plumbed during the week-long religious knees-up.

Back in England, no sooner had I slung my foetid bag down in the hallway than I was due to leave the house again. My boy's half-brother was 14, and to celebrate it there was the usual birthday tea at my boy's mother's house. Sitting shoulder to shoulder around the...

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