More on coping.

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Life Early last year, I asked How Do You Cope? in relation to the amount of creative stuff there is to consume in the modern world and wh...

"That was Tuesday ..."

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Politics In case you missed it, here's Michelle Obama's rally in New Hampshire today and what might be the best speech of the ca...

Hypernormalisation.

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TV Documentarian Adam Curtis has updated his blog for the first time in two years (removing the "This page has been archived and is ...

London Calling:
The V&A.

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Museums Yesterday I visited the Victoria & Albert Museum for the first time in my forty-one years, a day trip from Liverpool. There...

Soup Safari #73: Broccoli and Stilton at the The V&A Cafe.

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Lunch. £5.75. The V&A Cafe, Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Rd, London SW7 2RL. Phone: 020 7942 2000. Website.

My Favourite Film of 1925.

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Film When Sight and Sound published their top 10 greatest film list in 2012, there were a number of changes in comparison to 2002 in the...

Clinton Landslide.

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Politics Back in April, Nate Silver decided to throw caution to the wind and discuss what would be required for a Hillary Clinton landslid...

Class War.

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TV Find above the first proper trailer for Doctor Who's new spin-off Class, uploading to BBC Three with two episodes on the 22nd Oct...

Dear Barack.

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Politics Back in 2008, I wrote an open letter to new US president Barack Obama, asking him for one favour. To be his own man. Eight yea...

Museum Peace.

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Audio Originally published in the Short Trips anthology Dalek Empire, then recorded and released as a subscriber only special, Big Finish ...

Research Tools:
Copac.

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Books Sometimes a book vital to your research won't be in your university library and so you'll have to resort to an interlibrary ...

Research Tools:
Box of Broadcasts.

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Books With students either starting out at university or returning after the summer break, Liverpool suddenly seems like a busy place agai...

My Favourite Film of 1926.

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Film The Adventures of Prince Ahmed is the oldest surviving animated feature film. Argentinian animator Quirino Cristiani is known to h...

Doom Coalition 3.

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Audio Well, that's much, much better. As you'll remember I wasn't monumentally impressed with DC2 , describing it "as a ...

Lots and lots of sequels.

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Film A couple of decades ago when Empire was still a relatively new publication, before YouTube, they'd give away free VHS tapes fil...

Will & Grace & Hillary.

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Politics The cast of Will & Grace re-unite for a pro-Clinton infomercial. As ever it's sporadically funny. But the real marvel...

Hope Listed.

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Shakespeare The BBC reports the Theatre and the Hope, or rather the surviving sites of those Elizabethan playhouses have been put under li...

The Torchwood Problem 2.0

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TV Digital Spy is reporting the "air" or rather upload date for Doctor Who spin-off Class and a bit of the mission statement wh...

My Favourite Film of 1927.

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Film   If there's a film from the silent era which continues to be an influence on pop culture, it's Metropolis .  I've seen i...

Trolling.

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Film Being slightly too old to care at the time, I never did own a troll, the only kind I really encountering as a child being the monst...