On Comforting the Afflicted and Afflicting the Comfortable

I wasn’t going to comment on the sad death of Rod Liddle because I barely read him. (By this I mean no disrespect to the late columnist. There are only so many people one can read.) But a passage in Peter Oborne’s critical obituary stuck out to me:

Spectator editor Michael Gove responded to the news of Liddle’s death as follows: “Rod Liddle was a journal…