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RIP Miles Kington
2008-Jan-31, Thursday 17:23My paper of choice for the best part of 15 years was The Independent, started getting it when I was 17 and took GCSE Politics to go alongside my A Levels. I got in trouble in a politics class once for sneakily reading Miles Kington's column when I was suppoed to be debating something.
The small point that I was winning the debate anyway was only a little lost on the teacher. I stopped reading his column in later years (and now rarely if ever buy any print newspaper), mostly because they kept moving it around and it stopped residing in the Comment section where it belonged. Mostly always amusing, and I normally enjoyed his radio shows as well (although he could be annoyingly BBC-smug at times). So this headline isn't cheering:
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Newspaper columnist Kington dies
Ah well, 66 is a bit young, only twice my age. Scary, innit.
The small point that I was winning the debate anyway was only a little lost on the teacher. I stopped reading his column in later years (and now rarely if ever buy any print newspaper), mostly because they kept moving it around and it stopped residing in the Comment section where it belonged. Mostly always amusing, and I normally enjoyed his radio shows as well (although he could be annoyingly BBC-smug at times). So this headline isn't cheering:
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Newspaper columnist Kington dies
Ah well, 66 is a bit young, only twice my age. Scary, innit.
