I'm sorry to speak ill of the dead, and wouldn't have but for this article! There is nothing praiseworthy about a sharp tongue sharp for sharpness sake?

Here we had an extremely autocratic pompous popinjay, with delusions of grandeur, who criticized everyone and everything, with nought a word of praise for his betters, given in his own fevered imagination, there weren't any?

I wish I could find some redeeming humanising characteristics to glorify this abusive hatchet man, but he doesn't seem to have any?

I myself have hunted, but out of necessity, to survive, or for food, or to reduce feral pests, like the imported feral deer that at one time decimated New Zealand's native forests! Or the rabbits which also all but destroyed our native pastures!

But to kill for the thrill, is symptomatic, in my view, of a barking mad psychopath?

Moreover, there is nothing to glorify in out and out bully boy abuse!
Alan B.

I heartily agree with much of ALAN B's remarks herein. However I'd not seek to further amplify or expand my own sentiments in my support of Alan's. Only to say, this A.A. GILL character, needed (past tense) a thoroughly decent uppercut anytime he opened his cruel, hurtful mouth!

Sometimes it takes the sharp barbs of someone like A.A.Gill to make people aware of their weaknesses. Gentler, kinder words don't always have the necessary effect.

David