I KNEW ROD LIDDLE AND HATED WHAT HE BECAME. HE WOULD HAVE WANTED ME TO SAY SO | ZOE WILLIAMS

A man who prized blunt speaking has been selectively eulogised. There’s a balance between decency and honesty: I’m sad he caused such harm As tributes poured in for Rod Liddle, the Sunday Times and Sun columnist who has died at the age of 66, they were markedly coy and sanitised.

Media | The Guardian reports that a man who prized blunt speaking has been selectively eulogised.

The report adds: There’s a balance between decency and honesty: I’m sad he caused such harm As tributes poured in for Rod Liddle, the Sunday Times and Sun columnist who has died at the age of 66, they were markedly coy and sanitised.

Paradoxically, those were the exact deficiencies obituaries praised Liddle for avoiding – they said he shot from the hip and ruffled feathers, remorselessly attacked the liberal establishment and was ebullient.

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