Tony Klinger

As those of you who follow my various articles and blogs might know I usually craft my pieces with the care and attention of an old world artesan. Every word is carefully measured, weighed and evaluated before it is used or discarded. However there are days when there isn’t that much time, or I am [...]

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There is a very interesting situation in England at present. Our national football team is playing Croatia tonight and the vast majority of the population will be unable to watch it on their televisions. The reason is simple, Setanta, an Irish TV service owns these rights and will not sell a highlights package to their [...]

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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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Jade Goody is the Z list celebrity who was just given the news that she has possibly terminal cancer, live on Indian TV’s version of Celebrity Big Brother. It was the cruelest, most vile and despicable thing ever broadcast.
Jade, who is 27, had first become famous in the UK after appearing on the Channel 4 [...]

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Just when you think it can get no worse on British television something comes along to restore your faith in it, and the world at large.
In Britain we have suffered this summer from some of the worst drama rubbish ever produced. I shall name the three chief culprits and then stand well back from the [...]

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