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Neil Lyndon
Neil Alexander Lyndon (born 1946) is a British journalist and writer. He is known for his book ''No More Sex War: The Failures of Feminism'' (Sinclair-Stevenson 1992), which he claims was "the world's first egalitarian, progressive, non-sexist critique of feminism in its own terms".〔Neil Lyndon (''22 years on, I'm republishing my controversial book on the failings of feminism''. ). Daily Telegraph, 10 November 2014.〕
==Early life==
Born in 1946, Lyndon grew up in the Sussex Weald, a rural area.〔Neil Lyndon (''Spending to save with Audi'' ). Daily Telegraph, 10 November 2011.〕 He attended Collyer's school, Horsham.〔Neil Lyndon (1998) ''A Boyhood in the Weald''〕
According to a newspaper article written by Lyndon, he became, in 1965, the first student from a comprehensive school to be awarded an unconditional place at Cambridge University. At university he took a job in a scrap yard and later in light engineering.〔Neil Lyndon (''That Summer: The hitch-hiker's guide to the fallacy: Seduced by his friends' tales of laughing peasants and lively girls, Neil Lyndon hit the road for the summer of love. The ...'' ). The Independent, 20 August 1994.〕 Having flirted with communism as a teenager and having been a committed member of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, he rapidly became involved with radical left-wing politics at Cambridge. He took part in many demonstrations and sit-ins and after his graduation he co-founded of The Shilling Paper, a radical weekly.〔(Underground: the London alternative ... – Nigel Fountain – Google Books )〕 In 1969, he joined the editorial board of the underground paper ''The Black Dwarf''.〔Neil Lyndon, ("The return of the heretic" ), ''The Sunday Times'', 3 December 2000〕 Years later, in 2007 he wrote in ''The Sunday Times'' of his shame at how he had "once toasted mass murderers, torturers and totalitarian despots", particularly as he had distant relatives in Czechoslovakia.〔Neil Lyndon, ("I was stupid too – but at least I admit it, comrade" ), ''The Times'', 28 October 2007〕
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