Who speaks for the Great British Lad?
The old lad is dying; the new lad cannot be born
Bagehot woke up fully-clothed, face-down in a Novotel in Leicester on Saturday morning. The curtains were open and the lights were on. An evening in search of the Great British Lad had ended abruptly when two Peronis, four pints of Madri (a trendy lager aimed at middle-class football fans), a daiquiri, a woo-woo, a vodka Red Bull, two vodka lemonades and two rounds of tequila left your correspondent without time to put on his pyjamas.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The new masculinity”
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