Career
Of part-Polish and part-Jewish ancestry, Davies was known for his eccentric views and for his exceptional alcohol intake. In the late 1970s the Evening Standard printed his pithy, 50-word apercus among their longer items. He was also permitted to call Hans Keller a "twat" on the letters pages of The Listener.
As well as his writing (which included a book on James Joyce), he engaged in political activity, having been an Unionist candidate for the constituency of Cork South–West (where he was living at the time) in the Dáil election of 1987.
He died after a long battle with lung cancer.
