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Jeremy Clarke, Reader: A Mini-Appreciation

With a Jeffrey Bernard, Drinker, Micro-Kicker

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Eric Scheske
Nov 22, 2024
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It was arguably the most popular column in Britain’s oldest newspaper.

The Spectator’s “Low Life” column entertained readers from 1975 to 2023. For many of those years, it ran opposite Taki Theodoracopulos’s “High Life” column.1 It was an autobiographical column dedicated to the seedier and less conventional side of life, often brutally honest and (like a…

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