Tony Klinger

I have taken the unusual step of posting this (slightly longer version of my) article on both my main sites, and anywhere else I can. It’s an important story about our society, and we need to learn the lessons this tragedy teaches us.
I am going to write about the death of a British baby, known, [...]

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This is an extract from the start of my new book, its first draft not yet complete, which I would like to share with you, I hope you enjoy it and find it enticing…
It’s West London, just puffing at the fag end of the Second World War. It’s a very different place to the vibrant, [...]

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a truly fascinating film with a German central character, an eight-year-old boy, set in the Second World War. Ironically I happen to be writing a book about a German hero in the Second World War and am therefore dealing with the moral anomalies of such a scenario.
In this [...]

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Mountfitchet Castle is, perhaps, an oxymoron. There is no castle at Mountfitchet. There used to be a castle, and there are some very limited remains, but paraphrasing William Shakespeare, I did not come to bury Montfitchet, but to praise it.
Mountfitchet Castle is a national Historic Monument, protected by the Department of the Environment. It is [...]

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Normally I write a post, check it carefully, and then post it onto this site for you to read. Sometimes, like the professional I try to be, I work a little ahead of the curve, maybe a week or so. There are days when something happens and you feel a real need to write about [...]

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