Simple things like washing up or going to the loo have become major operations.

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He speaks from experience: down the road in Brockley, his firm has set up office in another disused loo.

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This somewhat forced moral structure is made up for by Ms de Loo's rich evocation of life in the Budapest ghetto and by her ability, in pared-down prose, to convey Kata's and Stefan's own confusions and anxieties.

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His predecessor, James Baker, never summoned up the courage to interrupt a tirade to visit the loo.

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