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Return of the Warner!

Gerald Warner of Craigenmaddie, one of Britain’s greatest living journalists, now has a splendid blog over at the Daily Telegraph called Is It Just Me? I am sure you will all want to take a look at it. Already he has an appreciation of the recently deceased Franz Künstler, until his death the last living soldier of the Hapsburg army, a brief missive pointing out how terribly un-British the idea of a “Britishness Day” is, and a forthright post on the value of the stiff upper lip in times of crisis.

Much of what Gerald says is, to sensible people, simply obvious. But one of the great dangers of our modern age is that what ought to be simply obvious is becoming less and less so due to deliberate obfuscation by the political and media classes. Gerald’s talent is that he tells you what’s what and that he manages to do it with a graceful alacrity, and often wit, that are a welcome — and, sadly, rare — treat. Go, read, enjoy!

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Published at 4:39 pm on Friday 6 June 2008. Categories: Great Britain Newspapers People Tags: , , , .
Comments

Rather like the British counterpart of our own Andy Rooney.

There is much sense in the adage, “Common sense is the sense least common.”

— Alessandro 6 Jun 2008 8:25 pm

Thank you, Mr. Cusack, another worthy addition to my weekly reading.

— Mitchell Bond 7 Jun 2008 12:30 am

Hurrah!

— Jack Gardiner 8 Jun 2008 8:52 am

Has he started writing a Scotsman column again? He is in this week’s today:

http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Gerald-Warner–Farewell-to.4234027.jp

— Sir Walter Scott 28 Jun 2008 9:02 pm
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