The Independent: Hallelujah! Competition for yule No 1 I know that all of this is a corporate endeavor and much of money will be going to th...

I would like to request any communications between any employees of the BBC and any employees of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) during ...

Liverpool Life I was passing by Concourse House this afternoon and noticed that it wasn't quite as tall as it used to be. I've s...

Elsewhere A review of this week's excellent Sarah Jane adventure . On reflection its quite a sober survey of what's meant to be a...

Life There goes another one. I was downloading some podcasts this afternoon and the monitor I had on loan went dark and began to make a ...

TV The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith is one of those problematic stories the modern nu-Who franchise is throwing in, now and then, in w...

TV Finally finished watching season six of 24 this afternoon. It was a rubbish as I'd heard and seemed to amount to many hours of pe...

I had my night planned, I really did. And then my web connection seemed to be downloading without a reason. Last time this happened it was...

Elsewhere The present series of Doctor Who on BBC Radio 7 is eight episodes long, but some reason only the first six have been broadcast....

Audio From the alternate reality where I’m writing this review, where the planet isn’t fucked and neither are the stock markets and I’m ma...

Empire: Jobs For The Girls Thoughtful piece about the treatment of women in cinema and how the old stereotypes are still around and in fact...

" TV I’ve just watched the entirety of The West Wing in about two months, probably about one season a week. I haven’t had time for ...

Liverpool Confidential: Jobs shock at Post and Echo -- Nearly a quarter of journalists to go, and Saturday Daily Post to vanish in latest O...

Meme THREE NAMES YOU GO BY: 1. Stuart Burns 2. Stuart Ian Burns (there's a subtle difference) 3. Stu THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD: 1....

Life It was the early eighties I think when I first went into an MFI. Our family had finally decided to buy a wardrobe (that sat in my ro...

Our mains electricity cut out earlier causing widespread panic around the nine rooms that constitute the flat. I tried turning everything, ...

Life When I was in my third year as a student at Leeds Metropolitan University during the mid-90s I lived at 38 Harold Walk, an end house ...

Audio Forty-five years. Let those syllable roll around your mouth as you say them out loud. Four-tee-five-yeeaarrrs. A certain sketch f...

Elsewhere A review of last night's Doctor Who . Feels right that there should have been a new, and actually very good episode broadca...

Every year I have a Christmas moment. It usually happens some time late in October, or early in November. I’ll walking down the street, wa...