[3] Born in 1946, Lyndon grew up in the Sussex Weald,[4] a rural area and between 1958 and 1962 he attended Collyer's school, Horsham[5][6] In 1962 his father was bankrupted and sentenced to three years imprisonment for fraud and embezzlement, leaving the family short of money.
Lyndon became head-boy and later set up the Frank Hodgson Trust for the school, providing similar financial support for sixth-form students.
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 where he attended Queens' College.
[12] 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.
He wrote columns, profiles and feature articles covering a wide variety of issues such as politics, sport, music and books[15] Lyndon also make television appearances, including as a guest on a famous episode of Channel Four show After Dark.
But the most important job our legislators face must be to remove some of the systemic disadvantages of life for men to improve their position within the family and within society at large.
They suggested he was sexually inadequate, questioned the size of his penis, his masculinity, his ability to attract women and even the smell of his breath.
[20] Almost two decades later feminist writer Julie Burchill continued the verbal personal attack, suggesting he was a "sad-sack" and "the opposite of a man".
[21] According to Lyndon, in one review of books of the year, Helena Kennedy refused to even discuss the publication, simply instructing people not to buy it.