"Legendary newsman", "mentor", "good writer", "lousy with staff", "irascible genius", "friend", and "one of the best political columnists the country has ever had," are just some of the terms those paying tribute to Owen have posted following his death late last week...
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In its obituary, Times Live goes on to say: "'Brilliant' is an overused word and seldom justified. But in Owen's case, it was. His newspaper columns, which appeared on a weekly basis from 1969 until he retired from the Sunday Times, were consistently brilliant, even if their brilliance was the only consistent thing about them..."