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Bernard Levin

I heard on the BBC PM programme that Bernard Levin has died after a long period during which he suffered from Alzheimer's. Of all the columnists at The Times he was my favourite, and his facility with, and love of, the English language was commented on by Simon Jenkins, who was the editor of the newspaper for one year during the time that Levin was writing.

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Robin Bignall
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[nq:1]I heard on the BBC PM programme that Bernard Levin has died after a long period during which he suffered ... [/nq] I was an avid reader of Bernard Levin's work when I still lived in England, and tried to keep up with his writing from over here. I was terribly sad to hear that he had slid into dementia.

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  • [nq:1]I heard on the BBC PM programme that Bernard Levin has died after a long period during which he suffered ...
  • [/nq] I was an avid reader of Bernard Levin's work when I still lived in England, and tried to keep up with his writing from over here.
  • I was terribly sad to hear that he had slid into dementia.
  • I didn't always agree with his opinions, and I was appalled by his involvement with Ariana Stassinopolos, who seemed to treat him, publicly, with disdain, but I always wanted to read what he had to say.
  • He was clever, witty, articulate, outspoken - and many more things besides.
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[nq:1]I heard on the BBC PM programme that Bernard Levin has died after a long period during which he suffered ... by Simon Jenkins, who was the editor of the newspaper for one year during the time that Levin was writing.[/nq]
I was an avid reader of Bernard Levin's work when I still lived in England, and tried to keep up with his writing from over here. I was terribly sad to hear that he had
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[nq:1]I heard on the BBC PM programme that Bernard Levin has died after a long period during which he suffered ... by Simon Jenkins, who was the editor of the newspaper for one year during the time that Levin was writing.[/nq]
Levin was brilliant - it's great to be of a generation that was able to enjoy his wit.
Adrian
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[nq:1]I was an avid reader of Bernard Levin's work when I still lived in England, and tried to keep up with his writing from over here. I was terribly sad to hear that he had slid into dementia.[/nq]
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I was surprised that he was only 75 I'd have thought he was older.

Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England for the past 22 years.
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[nq:1]I heard on the BBC PM programme that Bernard Levin has died after a long period during which he suffered ... by Simon Jenkins, who was the editor of the newspaper for one year during the time that Levin was writing.[/nq]
That's sad. I always enjoyed his writing. He was one of the great English stylists and a courageous man of principle too.
John Dean
Oxford
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[nq:1]I heard on the BBC PM programme that Bernard Levin has died after a long period during which he suffered ... by Simon Jenkins, who was the editor of the newspaper for one year during the time that Levin was writing.[/nq]
I'll miss him! Like you, I enjoyed his love of the English language but also his "enthusiasms", especially for Shakespeare, music and food, and I always looked forward t
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"Frances Kemmish" wrote -
[nq:1]I was an avid reader of Bernard Levin's work when I still lived in England, and tried to keep up ... to hear that he had slid into dementia. He was clever, witty, articulate, outspoken - and many more things besides.[/nq]
Yes, Bernard Levin was brilliant. His writing gained as he grew more introspective. In the 1990s, I felt his column inceasingly became mor
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"Adrian Bailey" wrote -
[nq:1]Levin was brilliant - it's great to be of a generation that was able to enjoy his wit.[/nq]
It was in 1973, I think, that he wrote an article on a new insecticide aimed at rats, and announced that he would remind the readers after 10 years that it had lost its effect. Then, in 1983, yet another new drug was trumpeted as being the final cure against rats. In a
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naniwadekar typed thus:
[nq:1]"Adrian Bailey" wrote -[/nq]
[nq:2]Levin was brilliant - it's great to be of a generation that was able to enjoy his wit.[/nq]
[nq:1]It was in 1973, I think, that he wrote an article on a new insecticide aimed at rats, and announced ... But to those who enjoyed his writing over many years, his death comes as nothing short of a personal loss.[/nq]
I agr
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[nq:1] I was given his first book (The pendulum years) as a xmas present when it was first published. Back then, he was undoubtedly left-wing but I noticed that his views shifted to the right over the years.[/nq]
Do you mean that he decreasingly favoured government intervention in the economy, or in personal matters, or both?
Matti
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[nq:2]I heard on the BBC PM programme that Bernard Levin ... for one year during the time that Levin was writing.[/nq]
[nq:1]That's sad. I always enjoyed his writing. He was one of the great English stylists and a courageous man of principle too.[/nq]
Yes, I marvelled at his involved sentences too. Sadly missed.

Mike

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