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Jeremy Clarke, in my dreams

The book launch passed in a blur. I hardly spoke to anyone

Catriona Olding

He was a star and I’m lucky to have shared my life with him for so long

Catriona Olding

Jeremy Clarke was the patron saint of the poor but happy

Taki

‘After many drunken dinner parties together in Provence, I used to dread what might appear in his next column’

The Spectator

Home

He belonged to that select English tribe: the reactionary bohemian

David Goodhart

Home
May 22, 2023
My brother, Jeremy Clarke
I can’t believe he managed to write his weekly column for The Spectator, even on his deathbed
James Clarke
Media
May 21, 2023
In memory of Jeremy Clarke, The Spectator’s Low Life columnist
He was one of the greatest writers ever to appear in our pages. But he was also so much more
Fraser Nelson
Low Life
April 20, 2023
My life in a lunatic asylum
After a while I forgot what the bounds of normal behavior were
Jeremy Clarke
Low Life
April 20, 2023
Champagne with our witnesses
Afterwards I can call Catriona Madame Clarke
Jeremy Clarke
Low Life
March 23, 2023
It was cannula carnage at the hospital
‘Don’t look!’ said the student nurse as he set about staunching the blood
Jeremy Clarke
Low Life
March 8, 2023
Choosing a night pot is like deciding on a make of sedan car
I worry that some might be already tiring of a columnist banging on interminably about his terminal cancer
Jeremy Clarke
Low Life
February 27, 2023
My deliriously happy school days
In the class photo of 1966 everyone is laughing, really laughing
Jeremy Clarke
Low Life
February 24, 2023
The morphine literature of Malcolm Lowry
Under the Volcano is not everyone’s cup of strychnine
Jeremy Clarke
Low Life
January 25, 2023
The joy of Spectator readers’ letters
They are intelligent, witty, generous and kind-hearted
Jeremy Clarke
Low Life
January 7, 2023
My journey around Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain
He is ideal reading for the ecstatic diseased
Jeremy Clarke