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My chums at the Herald asked me and some other sage persons to write 100 words on a favourite children's book . I've chosen "Th...

(No, not kklak! ) To the Coach and Horses on Tuesday (or to a Coach and Horses , since there’s a whole myriad gang of them in London), wher...

Via BoingBoing (and Nimbos ), here’s some extraordinary, beautiful images of London from above at night (apparently a follow-up to images ...

To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, the BBC Archive have posted up a selection of incredible, brilliant and awful materials from the libe...

Stephen Fry was on the telly on Friday night discussing Kakopos . For the uninitiated, these are silly green parrots what live on New Zeal...

Here's my review of Debateable Space by Philip Palmer , as published in the BSFA's magazine Vector last month: Space pirate Flanaga...

For just 99p you can hear the first episode of my new Doctor Who play, The Judgement of Isskar . The accompanying Prisoner's Dilemma is...

While everyone else in the world was watching events in Washington yesterday , I was in a posh hotel room working on something that’s as-ye...

First it was Oliver Postgate . Then Number 6 and Kaaaaaaahn went on the same day (I imagine them agreeing to meet one last time on the Rei...

Trojan condoms, this machine boasted, are "No. 1 in AMERICA". Isn't Trojan a virus ? (You could, incidentally, choose between...

To the NFT last night for a preview of the first proper episode of Being Human , which airs on BBC3 at 9 pm on Sunday 25 January. WATCH IT -...

Alistair Cooke was born in 1908, the same year as Ian Fleming and William Hartnell. These days, all three seem to have been from another wor...

Printed on a letter* today, this charming offer: www.royalmail.com/safebox Sending diagnostic specimens? Use Safe Box from Royal Mail What, ...

Went to see Cinderella starring Steve Guttenberg last night (it runs until 18 January). A lively, silly show with lots of songs to sing alo...

"Tardis Timegirl" has youtubed this superb CGI recreation of the 1968 trailer for Doctor Who and the Web of Fear (or the Yeti Inv...

The fantastically monickered Brian A Terranova of online zine Kasterborous has written the first review of Judgement of Isskar . He thinks i...

You might want to skip this post - it's all more me, me, me. The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine features a preview of The Judgement o...

First, 2009 is the 150th anniversary of Big Ben – the bell inside the clock tower of the what tourists call the Houses of Parliament. The of...

(* possibly a wo-man.) In a bit less than an hour and a half, the BBC announce who'll be playing the eleventh Doctor Who , though they w...

Happy new year – and happy birthday to the legion of chums whose birthday it is today. I don't think I'll be going to the celebratio...