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I'm a guest on a special episode of comedian Edy Hurst's podcast devoted to The War of the Worlds , nattering about the life of HG W...

"People are too often terrible advertisements for their own beliefs." Derren Brown, Tricks of the Mind , p. 357. The Dr took me to...

More details on the day I’m doing in Manchester on 11 October about Doctor Who novels, for which tickets are now available : “The event will...

Just a week after their superb Big Ben celebration , the BBC Archive has published a whole load of documents about George Orwell's emplo...

Fascinated by this news story about the oldest words in English . It’s one avenue of research by Reading University’s evolutionary biology g...

Or at least they were 40 years ago. A fun new collection of BBC archive films and documents on aerial journeys (clearly nothing at all to do...

"To look at the places where his wisdom has been invoked recently is to wonder if there is anyone, excepting Stalinists, who would not ...

To the NFT last night for their annual Missing Believed Wiped night, a hotch potch collection of roughly snipped snippets of dodgy old tell...

Inspired by the devil's dictionary , here are 10 defintions of business buzzwords. Readers are invited to do better. change Noun. Style ...

This is one of those blog entries where, by putting down something here, I can stop boring the pants of every poor soul in real life. I seem...