The recent Times article about Noel Fitzpatrick noted some strange behaviour towards the interviewer. Not proof of him being ‘the actual devil’ but certainly suggestive of mental health struggles. I never really warmed to his TV persona, without ever realising why.
Speaking of the actual devil, I remember reading a Guardian article on Jimmy Savile by Lynn Barber, back in the 1990s. It was a classic of the genre; she couldn’t blow his cover back then, for all sorts of complicated reasons, but she included all sorts of creepy details, like his visits to mortuaries and his lack of healthy personal relationships, which, coupled with his own sinister commentary, gave the attentive reader no doubt what we were dealing with. For those who have studied Chaucer, it made me think of the portrait of the Friar in the Canterbury Tales.