Diversity and social justice issues were creeping into the Hugo Awards, or rather into the cultural artifacts they celebrate, as such issues...

Shabcast 6 is now available to download or listen to here ... BUT HANG ON! This Shabcast is an accompaniment to this month's edition...

Shabcast 3 was supposed to be the second part of my discussion with Josh Marsfelder .  ( Here 's part 1 of that discussion.)  But events...

The Doctor learns that he is bigoted because he refused to accept the idea that a Dalek could be good.  Indeed, he hates Daleks so much that...

Some tumblr jottings, curated with pictures. Modernism.  The International Style.  Mies Van Der Rohe, Le Corbusier, etc.  A cl...

To me, the most striking thing about the racist Christmas card circulated by the British National Party (or the Keystone Stormtroopers, as ...

Godfrey Bloom, UKIP member of the European Parliament (there's a dialectical proposition if ever I heard one), has said how unhappy he i...

I have a massive, endlessly-lengthening list of books, old and new, that I want to get around to reading.  Donny Gluckstein's new book A...

In the course of preparing myself [to play Churchill in a biopic]… I realized afresh that I hate Churchill and all of his kind. I hate them...

Perhaps the most interesting thing about 'Inferno' (interesting to me anyway) is the way that the fascist world of the Brigade Leade...

What follows is a substantially rewritten version of something I wrote AGES ago and originally posted at my old site. The original version s...