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I've written a short piece for the online Telegraph about writer Malcolm Hulke, "The communist who turned Doctor Who into an eco-w...

“It’s all so unbearable. No wonder we work so hard to look away. No wonder we erect those walls, literal and psychological. No  wonder we wo...

Published in 1990, this short, 174-page book examines the process of adapting “classic” novels for the screen. “Intended for a general as we...

This is a righteously angry account of the past 15 years of politics in the UK, under Conservative (mis)rule. O’Brien ends with the disastro...

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

A lot of this excellent history of British politics over the past century was already familiar to me. In some cases, that's because I...

Through my day job as a journalist for Infotec.news, I spoke to Rebecca Paddick at Mantis PR for the latest episode of their Tech to Transfo...

“The museum is a powerful and extraordinarily malleable cultural sorting house. [Museums] are places for demonstrating that the West is best...

This gripping, near-future political thriller is published by Gold SF, the newish imprint of Goldsmiths Press that aims to discover and publ...

This extraordinary, meticulously researched book is an essential read just now. Belton charts the rise and rise of Vladimir Putin from his e...

I mentioned Stuart Hood in my last post  because I recently saw him in an episode of the BBC's Talkback from 7 November 1967, with six m...

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

This enormous volume - 591 pages before  the exhaustive acknowledgements, notes, bibliography and index - is a detailed history of the Secon...

It's taken a while to get through this because it's both dense and pretty grim. The anonymous author makes a compelling case about ...

This is the second of 12 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation recommended to me. The first one was 1.13 Datalore . We begin 2.9 ...

More than a decade ago, I was in the audience to see my clever friend Farah Mendlesohn interview Iain Banks . In preparation, Farah had r...

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