Miles remembered: An editor’s dream dies
The last time I spoke to Miles Kington was three days before he died. It was
6pm, the Comment pages were due off in an hour, and he still hadn’t filed.
For Miles, this was unheard of. His stuff was usually in by early afternoon.
Day in, day out, for more than 20 years, he was 100 per cent reliable, and
100 per cent brilliant. An editor’s dream, in other words.