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Polite society is a thing of the past

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London Life

Polite society is a thing of the past

Table talk in London these days is so relentlessly gloomy that we need some irreverent juvenile banter to lighten things up

Cosmo Landesman

Why I won’t date younger women

I may be thirty-six on the inside, but on the outside I definitely look seventy

Cosmo Landesman

Toby Young: love him or loathe him?

Everyone has at least one friend that none of their other friends can stand, someone you love but everyone else loathes

Cosmo Landesman

A tale of two parties

The secret to working a room is to know when you’re in a room that can’t be worked

Cosmo Landesman

London Life

In praise of creative bores

Their capacity to be as boring as the rest of us is a great cultural equalizer

Cosmo Landesman

London Life
November 21, 2024
Is it better to be posh or cool?
The tribes have a lot in common
Cosmo Landesman
London Life
October 21, 2024
How to know when to let friends go
I’ve been thinking a lot about friendship lately because I recently turned seventy and was considering throwing a big birthday party
Cosmo Landesman
London Life
September 12, 2024
The thrill of being recognized
There are writers and journalists who get public recognition all the time. Alas, I’m not one
Cosmo Landesman
London Life
August 19, 2024
Why I never enjoy going on holiday
I meant to experience Beauty. Wonder. Awe and all that jouissance jazz. Instead I’m thinking: help!
Cosmo Landesman
London Life
July 18, 2024
My Martin Amis FOMO
London literary life in the late 1970s to the late 1980s looks from today like a lost golden age
Cosmo Landesman
London Life
June 17, 2024
The tantric sex retreat that wasn’t
I could treat the whole thing with bemused Tom Wolfe snarkiness — or keep an open mind and get with the program
Cosmo Landesman
London Life
May 15, 2024
How to be friends with young people
I never discuss my sex life or the state of my prostate with anyone under sixty
Cosmo Landesman
London Life
April 16, 2024
The death of good conversation
Ours is an age that prefers the battle of ideas and opinions rather than pleasure of discovering the mysteries of another person
Cosmo Landesman
Life
April 15, 2024
Living in genteel poverty
The worst thing about it is that it’s disastrous for your sex life. Single women over fifty find broke men over sixty unappealing
Cosmo Landesman
London Life
March 17, 2024
Saving a worm
This little helpless creature had given existential meaning to my life. I owed it
Cosmo Landesman

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