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On Friday night, having spent the afternoon with young actors and Lance from Doctor Who , the Dr and I made our way to the Institute of Arch...

One of the many questions asked by Jeremy Paxman in his book “The Political Animal” is what effect standing for Parliament has on the lives...

I have blogged my enthusiasm for George Orwell before ( his views of politics and the English language ; his time in Spain during the civil ...

The new Doctor Who site Tardis Travels has posted up an interview with me . Leslie McMurtry grills me about the Doctor Who short story compe...

I’ve made a start on the great stalagmite of books assigned as “quite like to read”. David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas was one I picked up for t...

Alex Fitch's Benny show has been aired, and is now available to download . Odd listening to the rambling, nasal, awkward bloke that is, ...

The fifth Doctor Who will be meeting the tenth Doctor Who in "Time Crash" , Steve Moffat's special little Droo episode for the...

After the first one and the pictorial one , here's a third postcard from the Dr: "Spent day on beach rewrıtıng my ıntroductıon and...

I make my radio debut next week. Tuesday 23 October, 8 pm Resonance FM 104.4 FM (in London), or www.resonancefm.com on the Internet. In an ...

A few folk have asked about the play I saw on Monday. Was it, they ask, any cop? And, since it was by former Droo script editor Andrew Cartm...

A dim animal, yesterday.

150 years after Doctor Who was there (and 18 years after me), the Dr is in Bodrum. Back in the day, it wasn't called Bodrum but Halicar...

Spent yesterday prevaricating and watching DVDs, then settled down to the proofs of "The Pirate Loop" . Spotted a full stop that s...

The Dr and her ma are in Turkey, half holidaying and half doing some research for the forthcoming bestseller, "From the Harpy Tomb to t...

The following nonsense was first performed before a live audience of Doctor Who fans in Winchester in July 2002. The Dr played the lady part...

This is one of those blog entries where, by putting down something here, I can stop boring the pants of every poor soul in real life. I seem...

Two years ago, as the country got to grips with Dr Who being a Good Thing, the Mirror caught up with former Dr Who girl Anneke Wills . From ...

Just back from a weekend in Sheffield with family to find plenty of actual and potential offers of that there scribbling in by inbox. Which ...

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 ...