Jeremy clarke spectator biography of rory

Jeremy Clarke, the Spectator’s Low Life correspondent, has sadly died. His friend Piers Pottinger pays tribute

Taking over a legendary column is normally an impossible task. Not so for Jeremy Clarke, whose Low Life column in The Spectator was a triumph over adversity.

Jeremy became a friend of mine soon after he had established himself as essential weekly reading. For over fifteen years he would join a party of “rogues and funsters” for the annual Racing Festival at Cheltenham in March. It was an eclectic group who somehow managed to gel over a three, then four, day festival of drinking, gambling, storytelling and, of course, enjoying the racing too.
Jeremy could get on with anyone. One year at lunch he was sitting next to the then Chairman of The Prudential who admired his tweed suit. “Got it from The Oxfam Shop for a tenner on the way here,” Jeremy admitted. The businessman didn’t know he was not j Jeremy clarke spectator biography of rory allen.