An extraordinary Englishman The campaigning journalist William Cobbett saw life in black and white - now Richard Ingrams has provided the colour, says Noel Malcolm

The Sunday Telegraph London | June 19, 2005| | Copyright

WHEN WILLIAM COBBETT died in 1835, the obituary in The Times declared that he was "in some respects a more extraordinary Englishman than any other of his time''. Here was a man for whom, in his heyday, the streets of London would fill with cheering crowds - someone whose campaigning journalism was read both in the poorest houses in the land and in the studies of all the ruling politicians (who, invariably, were enraged by it).

Imagine, if you can, a publication similar in spirit to Private Eye but consisting mostly of a thumping personal commentary written by someone combining the talents and ...

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