Tony Klinger

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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