Tony Klinger

As the whole world knows, Michael Jackson died in Los Angeles last weekend, aged 50. Not old, and no longer young. In fact everything about the King of pop was in between.
Not visibly black any more, he had become extremely white.
Not overtly masculine, his sexuality was ambivalent.
He was never adult but he was no longer [...]

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I found a solution for spending too much money going out that we debated in this column recently. It is called a ramble in the UK and a hike in the US. After another week in which it seemed like the world might meet its financial Armageddon we need to take to the countryside to [...]

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I’m an unusual reviewer. You might already have guessed this from my writing style or the fact that commenting on the creative work of others, when you work creatively yourself is a fairly strange way to spend your time.
But the reason I consider myself strange is that I hardly ever accept a “freebie”, which is [...]

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Before we get to my more general comments I do want to make a special mention of the journalist Rod Liddle. He doesn’t cross my mind more than I cross his, which would mean not at all. But on Sunday he was one of the pundits reviewing the press on the Andrew Marr Show. The [...]

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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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