Toby Young Toby Young

Status Anxiety | 21 March 2009

I have been stitched up like a kipper in a dastardly second-hand piano con

issue 21 March 2009

I pride myself on being quite a wily old bird, one of those naturally suspicious individuals who is not easily fooled. You have to get up pretty early in the morning… etc, etc. But last week I was stitched up like a kipper and I am £200 poorer as a result.

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