I once met Rod Liddle briefly; my daughter and I were in the audience of a pilot radio show and he was on one of the teams.
Afterwards, outside, he was frantically smoking a cigarette and I said a few kind words as I passed him on the steps. He asked me if I really thought he'd been all right on the show; I don't think I've ever seen anyone so nervous.
(I wondered what he'd been like before the show!)
I like his column in The Speccie - he's acerbic and isn't afraid to say exactly what he thinks; you can forget political correctness or any kind of pandering to popular opinion. The man quaking after that radio programme was an altogether different image! (Rod Liddle is human after all.)
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