Harry Mount

Losing streak

<div dir="ltr"> <div id="x_divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr"> <div>Vanity used to be something to be ashamed of. These days, self-deprecation is for losers</div> </div> </div>

issue 21 July 2018

England didn’t just lose the World Cup. When it comes to male nudity, the country has also lost its sense of shame. Everywhere — on the Tube, in buses, on the streets, in the pub — men are striding around topless.

On Sunday in north Oxford I saw a man skiing topless, on roller-skis, with poles, down the Banbury Road.

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