Those takedowns we love, even if we hate to admit it

By Annabel Crabb
Updated February 14 2016 - 2:23am, first published 1:17am
UK Telegraph art critic Stephen Bayley wrote a savage review of a painting belonging to David Miliband. Photo: Trevor Collens
UK Telegraph art critic Stephen Bayley wrote a savage review of a painting belonging to David Miliband. Photo: Trevor Collens

 Of all the furtive pleasures available to the modern human being, surely the spectacle of another person being mown down in viciously perfect prose is the most shameful.

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