Robscurantist

@robscurantist.bsky.social

Unconscionably self-centred bit-player. Not 100% neurotypical. Just out of shot, at the back and to the left. Pronouns: your choice. https://ngl.link/robscurantist

This is all horrific stuff, and I invite you to go back to 2018/19 and reread her columns, newspaper interviews and podcast appearances talking about it, and then decide who it sounds like it was, that had been doing all this.

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The honest assessment here has to be that the man was paid to be as much of a cunt as he could about absolutely everything, and he excelled at it because he enjoyed being one. But nobody can say that, because it raises questions about what exactly it is *they* are paid to do.

Jenni Russell *
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I'm so sad to hear that Rod Liddle has died. He was a brilliant, contentious columnist, so valuable to public life because not only did he have a fierce and witty intellect, but he was unafraid to be disliked - a most unusual quality in our nervous age 1/Jenni Russell • @jennirsl • 3h
So many people with a public voice are terrified of being seen as anything other than a Good Person, so they repeat current pieties.
Rod cut through sanctimony. He was mischievous, insightful, sometimes deliberately appalling, often powered by tremendous moral scorn 2/
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But he never engaged in virtue-signalling though he could in fact be amazingly generous. I knew him when we were both BBC radio editors, he of Today and I of The World Tonight. Rod was tremendously, admirably competitive, but on a night when i was given five minutes' notice.
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