David Martin Jones, a philosopher and political commentator who made his career in Singapore and Brisbane, London and Budapest, died last week at Charing Cross Hospital in London, with family at his bedside. He was 73.
David was witty and intellectually generous to the end. I had the pleasure of drinking a coffee with him in Sydney just a few days before he passed.
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