He worked alongside cartoonist Philip Zec at the Daily Mirror and the pair courted controversy in 1942 with an illustration, captioned by Connor, which Winston Churchill and others perceived as an attack on government.
[2] Connor forgave Churchill though, and later wrote a moving obituary of the wartime Prime Minister ("Sword in the Scabbard", 25 January 1965) and attended his funeral service at St. Paul's Cathedral.
[10] According to Roy Greenslade, Connor was "an odd mix of liberal and reactionary",[10] citing for the former his column attacking the enactment of the death sentence delivered to Ruth Ellis due on the day of its publication.
He wrote: "The one thing that brings stature and dignity to mankind and raises us above the beasts will have been denied her – pity and the hope of ultimate redemption.
Subjects ranged from the times he received wrong number calls intended for a nearby railway goods station, to the mysterious person who sent him a fresh goose egg once a year.