TV Poor Doctor. Looking like a grown up Artful Dodger or a refugee from the BBC's adaptation of Bleak House, Eleventh looks none to...

Comics Another month of Assimilation2 and some more of my low expectations have been conclusively met. When I visited Forbidden Planet ...

The Prince of Wales meets a hobbit , a photo by The British Monarchy on Flickr.

Film   An experiment in pictures and music : "I have always been fascinated by the way music can completely change the way you watch ...

Books   In theory, Doctor Who is the ultimate expression of the time tourist genre, the TARDIS an extremely comfortable coach on a package...

Books  Might as well be honest.  I’ve been sitting here for a bit trying to work out if I like Nick Walters ’s Reckless Engineering .  No...

Books Oh goodness. If  The Infinity Race squandered an excellent cliffhanger, The Domino Effect gives the impression that its author ...

Books  Thud. Or rather plop. After the incredibly momentum built up in recent books, Simon Messingham ’s The Infinity Race brings the s...

Art Lydia Corbett was a real life example of the character Marion Cotillard played in Woody's Midnight in Paris, one of Pablo Picasso...

Food ... or at least Felicity Claoke's version of it : "Frying obviously involves adding fat – that's why it's so popul...

Politics Nate Silver takes a hindsight look at which polls were most accurate in the US election.   He finds that most of them overestimat...

Books Yes, yes, yes, yes!  What’s turning out to be a really entertaining, really interesting run of novels continues with Justin Richards...

Politics Finally, I feel as though I'm half awake again. Sitting up until some ungodly time followed by precious few hours of sleep a...

Day Four: Adelaide and Melbourne , a photo by The British Monarchy on Flickr.

Politics On this occasion, Julie Miller of the New York School of Performing Arts is correct as we await news of who is going to be runn...

Books  Find above one of my favourite web finds, not that I can remember where I found it, and to this day I’m not sure if it’s a fake or ...

Politics  If you're still trying to get your head around the rumours that President Bartlett has multiple sclerosis, remember that prev...

Books Maurice Sendak has a lovely interview in The Believer from Emma Brockes, usually of The Guardian's parish. Here he is on the e...

Sport  As I think we can all agree, mostly because it's a fact, I know nothing about football.  But I do seem to spend some time in the...