Television of the Year
This would appear to be a straightforward opportunity for us all once again to agree about how very good Doctor Who was. (But why does the newly-released TARDIS-shaped box-set of the DVDs say that this...
View ArticleSplendid Rubbish Nonsense?
I missed last nights Dispatches on the bin wars — the one where they collected some of our rubbish for us in a nice yellow wheelie-bin — so if anyone can fill me in on the state of play here in Oxford,...
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We have a TV at home, which isn’t switched on very often. I watch the Tour de France in July on Eurosport, Doctor Who in the late Spring on BBC1, football matches when there’s a World Cup or European...
View ArticleA Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference on Doctor Who and all its Spin-offs
WHONIVERSAL APPEAL: A Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference on Doctor Who and all its Spin-offs, Cardiff University, 14-16 November 2008 Over the fold for further details and the provisional...
View ArticleOxford Tortoise Cuppers Disgrace
The annual intercollegiate tortoise race was held yesterday here at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Blue Peter showed up to cover the race, bringing the official Blue Peter tortoise. And, after being...
View ArticleIvor the Engine: Cwm Rhondda / Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer
Ivor the Engine, 1958, first series, sixth episode.
View Article#chloesmithpoetry
For National Poetry Day, I’ve dredged much of the #chloesmithpoetry out from the depths of my Twitter timeline to archive it here. People may remember the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Chloe...
View ArticleOne Hundred Things Norman Geras and I Corresponded About Over the Last Decade
Country music (including but not limited to Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, Allison Krauss, and its relationship to suicide) — Marxism — The war in Iraq — The case the British government made for the war...
View ArticleUnwatchable
Oh dear. I’ve just realised who the “Morgan” and the “Platell” in the TV show Morgan and Platell must be. My goodness.
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