Swift is a much weirder writer than is assumed by people who haven't read him, Liddle a much duller one than his eulogies suggest. The idea he was a satirist doesn't really work as he didn't write those things to shock or mock he wrote them because he believed them.
Ian FraserFormer Spectator editor Fraser Nelson: “Rod Liddle was the greatest satirist since Swift”. Sometimes, you wonder what planet these guys are on.