A Londoner's Diary ; Toby Young Waves Goodbye to His Waistline, Swaps a Dream Porsche for a Skoda, and Ends Boris's Agony

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According to a new market research survey, men as young as 25 are now capable of experiencing a midlife crisis.

I wish I'd known about this years ago when I was still living home and sponging off my parents. Whenever my mother fought her way through the pile of empty pizza boxes littering my bedroom to complain about the fact that I stayed in bed all day, I would have had the perfect excuse. 'Leave me alone, Mum. Can't you see I'm suffering from a midlife crisis?' Then again, I'm not convinced that 25-year-olds need any more justification for doing absolutely nothing. If we allow them this one, why stop at pinching excuses from 40-year-olds? 'Sorry, Dad.

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A Londoner's Diary ; Toby Young Waves Goodbye to His Waistline, Swaps a Dream Porsche for a Skoda, and Ends Boris's Agony

love to help clean the car, but my rheumatoid arthritis just won't allow it.' In all seriousness, if 25-year-olds imagine they've got problems now, hate to think how they'll cope when they're my age. Take the mysterious li...

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