Tony Klinger

Little did Mister Tim Berners-Lee imagine what he had wrought when he invented the World Wide Web. Or should I call him Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June, 1955). He is an English computer scientist and latterly an MIT professor.
On 25 December, 1990 he implemented the first successful [...]

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Ever since I was a media beginner I have heard the same refrain every time Britain has done well in America. It was the British invasion when it was the music of the Beatles and then they were joined by many other successful acts from these shores. Always the reports here were slanted as if [...]

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I wrote this article yesterday for my political blog article and then realized it should also be here, for the readers of my normally lighter and breezier column. Apologies for those of you who were expecting to find a totally original story here. I promise normal service will be resumed very shortly!
Today we are going [...]

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The England cricket team were massacred by the West Indies in their last Test match. Last night the English football team were beaten by Spain. The England rugby team won “badly” against the Italians last weekend.
I was only present, in person, at Twickenham (and it was smashing to be there) for the rugby. The other [...]

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Yesterday Big Phil Scolari was sacked as manager of Chelsea Football team. The man behind this dismissal is the club owner Roman Abramovich. Clearly when someone like Roman invests and loans a business more than half a billion pounds he is entitled to his input.
This follows the dismissals of Avram Grant, Jose Mourinho, Claudio Ranieri [...]

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