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“Informed public opinion is infectious, even to governments.” (p. 149) Thursday, 30 July 1964 saw publication of two paperback “Penguin Spec...

LXXI The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all they ...

Prompted by Richard Flanagan's Question 7 , I sought out this "science-fiction" anthology by the Hungarian physicist Leo Szila...

Another new book by me, and the perfect accompaniment to my biography of David Whitaker , this is a deep dive into 1964  Doctor Who story Th...

A month ago, while I was busy preparing a talk on utopia and dystopia for the Hastings Writers Group, Francis Wheen tweeted about  Agent ...

This Sunday at 6.45 pm, Radio 3 will broadcast the new documentary I've produced with brother Tom, HG and the H-Bomb . It's a pick o...

While researching some daftness for  Horrible Histories Magazine , I read up on Franciscan monk and philosopher Roger Bacon (c. 1214-129...

When we first meet space thief Jean le Flambeur he's in prison, forced to play endless versions of the prisoner's dilemma against...

Thanks to lovely Abebooks , I'm now the proud owner of a battered paperback of Carl Sagan's Cosmos and a battered hardback (withou...

Those splendid souls at Big Finish have announced that I've written another Doctor Who story for the Second Doctor, as told by Wendy Pa...

It’s 20 years since I took my first GCSEs - four of them, a year early, what with going to posh school. Tomorrow morning, me and Nimbos and...

Went to see Piccard in Space last night, a new opera by Will Gregory , best known for his work with Goldfrapp. It told the story of Auguste...

Space school today was on identifying constellations, and I've drawn spidery diagrams of such things as Boote, Canis Major and the the b...

"Your maths is correct, but your physics is abominable," said Albert Einstein (in French) of a 1927 paper by a Catholic priest. A...