Tony Klinger

Today we remember the millions of our people who gave everything on behalf of us all in the many wars that have been the cruel price of democracy.
Many of our finest have died, almost too many to count, and even more were horribly maimed for the rest of their lives, and this continues today. They [...]

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For those of you who don’t understand Yiddish, a schlep is defined as to pull along heavily, like this, the one legged man schlepped the huge case up and down three sets of stairs. You get the picture?
Yesterday I schlepped myself, a heavy enough weight you might say, for a 6 miles hike across country [...]

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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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This blog is on vacation until the middle of the week. This will prove that I am not addicted to writing and will release any of my readers to think what I might be up to in the interim.
I shall be back for a couple more columns later in the week and I promise to [...]

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When you leave the players building that leads to the Centre Court of the world famous Wimbledon tennis championships, over the doors leading to the waiting public, there are a couple of lines of a poem by Rudyard Kipling that read, “If you can meet with triumph and disaster, And treat those two imposters just [...]

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