Nicholas Lezard
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/ 7 June 2006

The horror of going bald

The news that British politician Mark Oaten blamed his baldness for his midlife crisis parted the nation’s opinion neatly down the middle. There are some who feel that losing one’s hair is hardly an excuse to inaugurate a same-sex relationship behind one’s wife’s back at around the same time as one is running for the leadership of one of the country’s major political parties.