Mary Killen Mary Killen

Your Problems Solved | 5 February 2005

Etiquette advice from The Spectator's Miss Manners

issue 05 February 2005

Dear Mary…

Q. I am becoming increasingly annoyed by friends and acquaintances who think it is acceptable to snort coke. At civilised dinner parties, we find increasingly that someone will bring it out in a pathetic attempt to show they are still young and groovy and rather good fun. Living in seedy west London and working with people whose relations have been murdered in turf wars, I am becoming more and more incensed at the irresponsibility of this behaviour by people who should know better but are well protected from the consequences of their actions.

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