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Snot and sore throat since last Tuesday is not the only sign that the nights are drawing in. The air bites briskly on the way into work, and...

I’ve enjoyed Jon Snow’s often jokey Snowmail preludes to each evening’s Channel 4 News , which are often funnier, more insightful and more ...

“It’s like Allo! Allo!, but without the laughs,” said Monster Maker as he tried to explain to me Secret Army. “Oh,’ I said. “So just like A...

Devon drizzled with occasional sunshine. Salcombe conspired to have 45 degree slops whichever route you took, but is a pretty, posh-shopped...

A long day of chasing about madly yesterday – and my limbs are still not recovered from wild disco at a wedding on Saturday. It has been too...

The third issue of free Doctor Who fanzine Shooty Dog Thing is now online . It's packed with all kind of Bernice Summerfield goodness. A...

(For those keeping score at home, this is my 500th post.) The Steep Approach to Garbadale , the almost-new book by Iain Banks, is like a com...

So the badger-pirates have been delivered. I've heard the SFX mix of The Final Amendment and the pre-title sequence for The Wake , and...

Long story short: buy product. The Big Finish website now boasts the exciting cover artwork for Bernice Summerfield Jason Kane audio "...

The thing about reading and writing for a living is that it eats into reading for pleasure. At one time it was unthinkable to still be readi...

Because of the showbiz, may-fly lives we lead, the Dr and I rarely follow TV shows as they’re going out. We didn’t watch all of Droo live, f...

I have been busy with badger-faced pirates and so not mucking around here. It also doesn't help that my computer is acting up. Sometime...

It is five years today since I left full-time employment to leap aboard the kayak of freelancing. The me then, with his hair and cappucine a...

M kindly plus-oned me into a screening of The Bourne Ultimatum yesterday morning – on the basis that he’d not seen the first two Bourne out...

To the horror of politely brought-up ladies everywhere, I have been wearing shorts. Rest assured, they are long enough to hide my especially...

A nice chap called Brax interviewed me this morning for the autumn edition of his finely named freezine, Shooty Dog Thing . M'colleagues...

I am surely too old for acne. But I seem to have caught a blinder recently, and one prominent on the bulb of my nose. The Dr has been morbid...

There are monsters down my road. No, really. Well, strictly speaking, there are monsters down my road, over the railway bridge, right, left,...

The BBC's official Doctor Who website has announced details of three thrilling new Doctor Who novels , due to be published on 27 Decembe...

I had rather woefully underestimated how much work might be involved in the Benny Inside Story bibliography. Thought it would take me a morn...