Tony Klinger

There have been several sports stars, both in the UK and US, who have behaved appallingly. It’s not hard to imagine that this has always happened, but in days gone by it was largely unknown. There was less media attention and money involved and that was probably the reason for virtual anonymity.
No one much cares [...]

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Many of us love the Olympic games, what it stands for and the sheer pleasure of seeing excellence, hard work and talent rewarded in an orgy of competition.
This year, in less than two weeks, the Beijing Olympics will take place in China. We should be anticipating these games with uninhibited pleasure. But this is not [...]

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Whenever a film makes nearly a couple of hundred million dollars in its first weekend it is worth a look to see why. Over the last few days The Dark Knight, the most recent of the Batman film franchise, has done this, so I immediately journeyed to the cinema.
The Batman saga began with the comic [...]

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Yesterday was my family’s Legoland day. Such is the draw of the place that one of our adult friends, a lady, who is not a child herself, asked to join us for the fun.
There are, according to Legoland, 7 new attractions, some of which I shall go on to review here. My family disputed the [...]

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There was no way I could avoid the film Wall -E, even if I’d wanted to, and I didn’t. Staying with us for the summer are daughter Sarah and our grandkids, Maya 7, going on 14 and Soli, who is a very lively 5 and a half. Maya solemnly declared that the film was about [...]

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