Miles Kington (born 1941) is a British journalist, jazz musician and broadcaster. He was born in Northern Ireland (where his father, a soldier, was then posted) and studied Modern Languages at Trinity College, Oxford. For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people. ... Jazz master Louis Armstrong remains one of the most loved and best known of all jazz musicians. ... Note: broadcasting is also the old term for hand sowing. ... Royal motto: Quis separabit (Latin: Who will separate?) Northern Irelands location within the UK Official languages English, Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Area  - Total Ranked 4th 13,843 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 4th 1,685,267 122/km² NUTS 1... College name Trinity College Named after The Holy Trinity Established 1555 Sister College Churchill College President The Hon. ...

He began his career at the now defunct satirical magazine Punch, where he spent some 15 years. It was during this time, in the late 1970s, that he began writing Let's Parler Franglais!. Written in a comical mixture of English and French, these short sketches purporting to be a study course took as their raison d'être the undeniable fact that "les Français ne parlent pas le O-level français" ("the French do not speak O-level French"). They were later published as a series of books (Let's Parler Franglais!, Let's Parler Franglais Again, Let's Parler Franglais One More Temps, and so on). Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject (individuals, organizations, states) often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ... Punch was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002. ... Jimmy Beertow is the most famous pornstar of this decade he starred in movies such as BackDoorSluts3 and the Famous Schoolhouse Confessions Parts 1 through 6. He ultilized the secret school location made famous by the series. ... Franglais, a portmanteau made by mixing the words français (French) and anglais (English), is a slang term for types of speech, although the word has different overtones in the English and French languages. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The General Certificate of Education or GCE was introduced in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 1951, replacing the older SC and HSC. It was intended to cater for the increased range of subjects available to pupils since the raising of the school leaving age from 14 to 15 in...

A lover of jazz since boyhood, he plays the double bass (and other instruments) and was for many years the bass player of the cabaret quartet Instant Sunshine. He has now moved away from London and works from his home at Bradford-upon-Avon, near Bath. Side and front views of a modern double bass with a French bow. ... Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue - a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting around the tables (often dining or drinking) watching the performance. ... For Segas arcade game, see Quartet. ... The Palladian-style Pulteney Bridge and the weir at Bath Bath is a city in South West England most famous for its baths fed by three hot springs. ...

He currently writes a popular humour column for the United Kingdom newspaper The Independent. The Independent is a British compact newspaper published by Tony OReillys Independent News & Media. ...

Regular topics for this include

• The answers to a Christmas quiz that was never printed
• Fictional court reporting
• Jazz
• Motorway Ballads
• Proceedings of the United Deities
• Spot the fictional news story
• Things for which there is no word
• "Albanian Proverbs" which appear profound at first glance, but are actually meaningless
• Letters concerning a recently deceased celebrity's supposed love of cricket

A cricket match in progress. ...

External link

• Miles Kington columns (subscription only)