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Review I wrote for Vector last April: Blonde Bombshell by Tom Holt George Stetchkin is a brilliant programmer and a not so brilliant drunk. ...

It seems no time at all since I was blogging that we'd bought a flat . Ah, the happy, bouncy fellow that I was back then... Tomorrow, th...

On Thursday next week, 10 February, I'll be speaking at the National Portrait Gallery on five people who have married Kings and Queens o...

Out in all good DVD shops now is the 1971 Doctor Who story The Mutants , which features another documentary by me and the brother. Here is a...

Space school today was on identifying constellations, and I've drawn spidery diagrams of such things as Boote, Canis Major and the the b...

Another old review for Vortex, this one from January 2010. The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, by Jesse Bullington Hegel and Manfried Gr...

"Your maths is correct, but your physics is abominable," said Albert Einstein (in French) of a 1927 paper by a Catholic priest. A...

Here's a book review of Johannes Cabal - the Necromancer by Jonathan L Howard , which I wrote for Vector in the summer of 2009 and neve...

Spent a long weekend in Thessaloniki (also known as Salonica) in northern Greece with the Dr and my parents. Traipsed through a fair few mus...

Those fine fellows at BBC Worldwide / 2|entertain have put a whole load of Doctor Who clips up on YouTube, including a snippet of a document...