Connor wrote his famous column in the Daily Mirror for 32 years. Its crisp and trenchant sentences set a new standard, copied everywhere but never bettered. His rivals envied him many things but, most of all, the cut and thrust of his style, so devastating in chopping opponents down to size, with never a yawn from his daily congregation of 15 million. A delight for those who love to see their own language used stylishly, a primer for writers willing to learn from a master of words.