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Status anxiety

David Sedaris was right: litter is a class issue

<i>I've found a new hero. Though I'd prefer a Big Society method for carrying through his obsession</i>

17 January 2015

9:00 AM

17 January 2015

9:00 AM

David Sedaris is my new hero. Not because he’s such a funny writer, but because he’s obsessed with litter. He told a group of MPs last week that he spends up to five hours a day picking up fast food containers and fag ends around his home in Pulborough, west Sussex.

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Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator.

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