The impact of loneliness on health is supposedly equivalent to 13 cigarettes a day. It’s certainly one of the most pernicious destroyers of life, and it’s apparently on the increase. Yet often it is not about not having people around you, but about whether you belong with those around you.
Each Friday night a group of ill-educated young men met in The Scarsdale Tavern behind the police station in the Earls Court Road, in the London Borough of Kensington. We were all about 22 and did manual work. Did not shine at school, had been in and out of
