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Hello again. I've had a lovely few days off, gorging on food and pals and telly. Dr Who + Kylie + Bernard Cribbens = WIN . I think I mig...

Stuart Ian Burns seems to be the first person I don't actually know to have read Doctor Who and the Pirate Loop, which he's reviewed...

Just heard that Fuat Deniz was murdered last week. I last saw Fuat just over two years ago, when I was over in Sweden . I can see him vivid...

It was reading Prime Witness that finally prompted me to make an effort with the Ascent of Man . It’s the third of BBC 2’s decades-old, pre...

The Big Finish website has been updated with the final cover for my final Benny play, The Wake. It may well be my favourite of all Ade Salmo...

To the NFT last night for their annual Missing Believed Wiped night, a hotch potch collection of roughly snipped snippets of dodgy old tell...

The third law of thermodynamics can crudely be put as follows: Things fuck up. The more one tries to unfuck them, the more they get fucked u...

In the run-up to The Pirate Loop being available in all good bookshops, I shall be posting some space-pirate badgers. First off, here's...

Inspired by the devil's dictionary , here are 10 defintions of business buzzwords. Readers are invited to do better. change Noun. Style ...

Special agent Fox Mulder had a poster hanging up in his office at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It showed a classic “proof” of alien ...

Back in September, I sat at the back of a talk by Jane Portal, curator of the British Museum’s First Emperor exhibition , where she explaine...

Adam Grose has announced my inclusion in his forthcoming FLOOD comic , which features one-page strips and drabbles to raise money for flood ...

What with being a perfumed ponce, this week I’ve seen two plays. By coincidence, both feature strong performances from their all-Black casts...

My conquest of all media continues. I've got my name in Radio Times for the first time ever. Yes, okay it's in an advert for Doctor...

(Technically, this is “My mates’ scribbling #3” as I’ve known Penny Morgan for about as long as I can remember. But the title for this post ...

Went to see In The Shadow of the Moon on Friday afternoon. It’s a Channel 4 documentary enjoying a small run in cinemas, telling the story ...

Fellow December novelists Trevor Baxendale, Jim Swallow and I will be signing our Doctor Who books at Forbidden Planet in London on Saturday...

"Oh yes, you're a Banks groupie," said my former tutor when we bumped into each other last night - the first time I've see...

The sacking of the voice of the Underground made front-pages last night, and was even picked up on telly’s Ten O’clock News. London Undergr...

Space-archaeologists and historians of the future may be excited by the following. Everyone else can just talk amongst themselves. This week...