Miles Kington
Miles Kington learnt his trade on Punch, where he stayed for 15 years. He then became a columnist on The Times - until the takeover by Rupert Murdoch was complete. Miles wrote a daily humorous column for The Independent from 1987 until days before he died in 2008. In his 2005 memoir, Someone Like Me, everything was invented to avoid charges of plagiarism or libel.
The Kington letters: Final words of a comic genius
Ever the master humorist, Miles Kington kept readers laughing right up to the end. But at the time of his death last week, the 'Independent' columnist was also working on a literary farewell - a series of typically brilliant letters to his friend and agent, Gill Coleridge...
Independent humourist Kington has the last laugh
Miles Kington, the humourist, broadcaster, musician and Independent columnist who died in January, once observed that “whenever I attend someone’s memorial service, I am always struck by one notable absence: the late lamented himself”. Read and watch tributes paid to the comic genius at his recent memorial service.
By Miles Kington
Miles Kington Remembered: 'This witness seems to be off his trolly, m'Lud'
Monday, 28 July 2008
You can always get NHS things if you want to. They're so desperate for cash they're flogging stuff off. That's why they're so short of beds. They keep selling them
Miles Kington Remembered: The Lord thy God is a little liable to fly off the handle
Friday, 25 July 2008
15 July 2003
Miles Kington Remembered: Forget conspiracies: the leg-pull theory explains it all
Thursday, 24 July 2008
16 December 1999
Miles Kington Remembered: How to become a favourite uncle to precocious children
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
1 August 2002
Miles Kington Remembered: Is there anything left to eat that doesn't contain nuts?
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
If it had said, 'Warning: this packet of fine sea salt may contain tiny fragments of seaweed,' I would have understood. But bits of nut in my salt?
Miles Kington Remembered: You can't libel the dead – unless they come back to life
Monday, 21 July 2008
He took the view that he was bound to win, and even if he didn't get substantial damages, he would make history by being the first person to sue an obituary for libel
Miles Kington Remembered: Why I could never fall in love with Kate Moss
Friday, 18 July 2008
2 April 2004
Miles Kington Remembered: Why tidying the shed can damage your finances
Thursday, 17 July 2008
11 August 2005
Miles Kington Remembered: The strange case of the disappearing crime tsar
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
12 June 2001
Miles Kington Remembered: Enveloped between my respectable rivals
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
There were plenty of recognisable faces... people who would like to stand asanti-sleaze candidates... Ernest Saunders, Asil Nadir and Darius Guppy
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1 Mark Steel: Why do the unions keep handing over their money?
2 Amanda Healy: The NHS allowed my daughter to die
3 Deborah Orr: Face the facts: men are more prone to violence than women
4 Hamish McRae: Don't despair over house prices
5 Jonathan Sacks: An equation that leaves out a vital component: love
6 Anna Fairclough: The lessons all schools need to learn from this judgment
7 Johann Hari: The hard cash that wins the vice-presidency
8 Adrian Hamilton: A bitter power struggle for the soul of democracy
9 Dominic Lawson: These MPs only really care about one thing... their jobs
10 Dominic Lawson: We should have no reason to be surprised when a doctor turns out to be a murderer
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