It is with the deepest sadness that I advise readers of The Spectator Australia of the tragic passing of David Martin Jones. David was intellectually brilliant – a good and kind man with a lovely sense of humour, who had so much more to give the world and who will be sorely missed by so many, not least the readers of his insightful columns.

In typically self-deprecating style, David described himself as ‘a relic of that best of educational equalisers, the British post-war grammar school system’.