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It's been announced that the theme tune to Quantum of Solace will be by Alicia Keys and Jack White - and not Amy Winehouse or Dennis Wa...

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

It is 29°C in my flat at the moment. Summer has finally hit in the last couple of days and the sky is a whopping blue swelter. So it's a...

The thrilling new issue of Doctor Who's Magazine (I got the Sarah Jane cover with my subscription) finally reveals the secret project I...

The elusive Ed Grainger seems to be responsible for a Wikipedia page on Doctor Who: How The Doctor Changed My Life . I meanwhile am continui...

The BBC news site it full of interesting stuff right this minute (or perhaps it's just greener than the grass of my own writing chores.....

M. rather marvellously smuggled me into the IMAX last night for a press screening of The Dark Knight . It's a huge, 2.5 hour epic full o...

Big Finish have posted the artwork and blurb for Home Truths - my Doctor Who: Companion Chroncicles featuring Sara Kingdom, as played by Je...

Arg. It's 10 days since we had the bathroom floor retiled to stop the leak that was running into the flat downstairs. It cost £400 and w...

Over the next few weeks, I'll be posting on to the Big Finish Facebook group the first paragraphs of each of the 25 stories in Doctor W...

To the stone circle at Avebury yesterday with a group of chums (not all of whom I'd met), for the purposes of something that will get a...

"Counterterrorism measures ought not to be extraordinary measures in a special category of their own but as far as possible part of the...

More than once I have played zombies for Big Finish. That was me in the crowd of them during The Worst Thing in the World , and again opposi...

It has been a tad of a hectic week. The spangly new computer I bought on Wednesday is an HP Pavilion M9070 with a quad core processing wossn...

Today is the first anniversary of the smoking ban in England. And, by complete coincidence, last night I finished watching the first series ...

A fun afternoon in the pub yesterday with lots of lovely chums, many of whom brought presents or at least bought pints. It’s just possible t...

The not exactly new but current issue of SFX (#171, July 2008, The X-Files on the cover) includes a three page feature by Jonathan Wright ...

Just back from a short gad around Cornwall on the occasion of my birthday. Trained down to Plymouth, picked up a hire car like we did three ...

I don’t normally do this sort of thing but two chums have recently tagged me with memes. Paul Cornell says I must obey the following, so lo...

I must have read Diamonds Are Forever when I was about 11 or 12. Reading it again, the only bit I remembered was James Bond meeting up with...