Toby Young Toby Young

Status Anxiety | 13 September 2008

If I die this weekend, at least I will breathe my last in the name of a good cause

issue 13 September 2008

By the time you read this I may be dead. I have been pressganged into taking part in the London Duathlon this Sunday in order to raise money for the Chelsea and Westminster Health Charity. A canny young man who works for the charity noticed a reference to the paediatric unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in something I wrote about my son and suggested that this might be a good way to give something back.

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