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This very timely memoir is about the damage done by public schools, especially to boarding pupils separated from their parents at an impress...

Subtitled, "Gossip, Power and How Politics Really Works", this is an insightful and often funny insider's account of the in...

Here's another video entry from our book, Doctor Who - The Women Who Lived , this time telling the story of the Doctor's friend Ros...

On 18 July 2017, Lord Horam gave a speech in the House of Lords during a debate on the EUC report Brexit: Trade in Goods . At one point (...

Cobbett's Parliamentary History , vol. 1 (1806) Hansard is the official report of parliamentary debates in the House of Commons an...

For my birthday, Nimbos kindly presented me with the House of Cards trilogy . I felt some trepidation putting it on; having watched the ...

On 2 November, I'll be at Doctor Who Day at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea , talking about the beginning of Doctor Who in 1963 and...

By popular demand (well, Dawn Christoffersen on Twitter asked), here's the shooting script for our short film The Plotters  - which go...

I loved Ian Mortimer's The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England  when it was on the telly a few weeks ago and have finall...

Caricature of John Lubbock from Punch , 1882, via Wikipedia. Heritage! The Battle for Britain's Past is available on iPlayer for...

Prompted by wise Matthew Sweet, whose radio programme on the life of Alex Comfort, Stop Calling Me 'Doctor Sex'  is still up on iPl...

"The Plotters" is now up on the Virgin Media Shorts website. Please retweet (with "The Plotters" and the hashtag #Sho...

High Rise by JG Ballard is told from the point of view of three men living at different levels of a block going to war with itself. It'...

Back from holiday and birthday shenanigans. Will write up our trip to Malta soon, and also some notes I made on The Gift by Lewis Hyde , whi...

The Dr and I have spent Christmas eating too much, drinking even more, seeing some chums and enjoying – for the Dr at least – a busman's...