It was in the spring of 18-- when I returned to Baker Street after a lengthy sojurn in the wilds of Dorsetshire.  It had been some months si...

I created this meme the other day... ...to be used in online debate when someone evades a sincere demand for answers. Just don'...

"The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction" said William Blake in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell , and on lots...

The Olympics really depresses me.  Not just the horrendous waste of money and the revolting jingoism and the all-pervading ideological rei...

"Why don't you just call me Doctor?" "Zat ist not a name.  I vant your full name." "Oh very well.  Dr. John...

"Hurr hurr... You think this is the real Quaid?" Well it might be, thought the guard.   Then again it might not.  It might be Q...

It's coming up to Panic Moon time again.  The July issue of the estimable print fanzine is now available for pre-order, here . Thi...

Old Who was not fundamentally about characters or characterisation. At its best, it used characterisation as a way of expressing its ac...

One of the first materialisations of the commodity was prayer. Monasteries were the producers and vendors.  The monks were poor and humble...