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Melanie McDonagh

OPINION - Only the English are insecure enough to need Nicky Haslam's tea-towel to tell them what's common

Wimbledon. Music. A pop of colour. Ordering lobster. Podcasts. The Northern Lights. Driving. Festivals.

What unites these disparate things? Why, they’re all things that Nicky Haslam, interior designer, thinks are common, The great man has just issued his fifth tea-towel with a list so magnificently arbitrary as to be absolutely worth the £40 the tea towel costs — the perfect gift for the socially insecure.

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