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16 April 2017 at 10:53 #56259
The Marshall stories seem to originate from The Mirror who seem to adding up 2 and 2 to make 5, not for the first time. It could well be right but I’m really hoping it’s not. I’m sure he’d be fine but it strikes me as an extremely pedestrian choice, for the first time in the reboot’s history. I would have liked to have seen a bit more risk-taking.
Coupled with the fact that Broadchurch 3 hasn’t inspired me with any more confidence in Chibnall’s show-running, I’m increasingly expecting an approaching age of extremely vanilla Who. Perfectly willing to be proved wrong though.
16 April 2017 at 00:18 #56226@missrori–
thank you. Very kind.
16 April 2017 at 00:17 #56225Well, that was just absolutely bloody delightful. Almost certainly the best introduction to a companion story of the new series, and certainly since Amy’s first story. And for my money it did at points approach the brilliance and exuberance of that story.
Bill is great and Pearl Mackie really did hit the ground running here. I love her already and if she has the sort of dark future that has been hinted at then I’m going to feeling quite watery myself come the end of the series. But if she carries on as she did in this episode then I think Chris Chibnall might be wise in trying to find some way to extend her TARDIS tenure.
And Capaldi is on fire here too. Having just wittered on at great length about how ‘unknowable’ 12 seems to be, I really did feel that I did know him now. And that Capaldi did too. Very Tom Bakerish in places but with his own stamp on the role too, PC has really nailed it now. And Nardole fits the dynamic too — and I wasn’t a fan to begin with. This has the potential to be one of the great TARDIS line-ups.
As to the story itself, that wasn’t massively the point of this episode (again rather like The Eleventh Hour) and was really just there to give the characters something to do while we got to know them. And yet the conclusion did approach touching at points.
All in all, a great start and the strongest series opener for quite some years.
15 April 2017 at 02:08 #56172@Mersey–
Yes, McCoy is — and I suspect always will be — a highly underrated Doctor. There are definite hints of the direction that both the Virgin New Adventures and Big Finish took his Doctor in, most notably in (as @mudlark says) Remembrance of the Daleks, Ghost Light and Curse of Fenric.
And I know what you mean about his regeneration, although I kind of like it because it’s one of the rare ones that remind you that it doesn’t necessarily take something spooky and alien and otherworldly to ‘kill’ a Doctor.
13 April 2017 at 23:48 #56142To add further wild speculation into the regeneration chat — and make me think more than other that they’re going to do something slightly out of the ordinary with this regeneration…
13 April 2017 at 18:35 #56140@kerrit — and the prize for oddest question on the site goes to…
I think your best bet is a multi-bit sonic screwdriver, erm, screwdriver mulitool from a few years back. It detached in the middle and had slots for three double-ended screwdriver bits which slotted into the base. With a bit of customisation that might suit your needs nicely…
11 April 2017 at 13:25 #56094Though this worth posting, especially as the new series comes upon us and activity on the site will undoubtedly increase once again.
It’s absolutely in the spirit of the show to be as warm and welcoming as we can. Let’s remind ourselves to be the best that we can possibly can on the site (while recognising that we all slip sometimes, and I definitely include myself in that).
And at the end of the day, it’s only Doctor Who…
11 April 2017 at 13:21 #56093@missrori–
I think @arbutus is right that the Doctor will fall only to rise again. Though maybe he’ll be falling off a radio telescope. He does have form in this area…
But here are some further clues about the regeneration and it looks as if PC will be staying until Christmas. Which is fine by me, the longer the better.
10 April 2017 at 20:00 #56067@missrori–
it would be weird for him to be the one establishing the personality, etc. of Thirteen when that character’s going to be part of Chibnall’s tenure as showrunner
It would be very odd, I agree, but it’s not unprecedented. Barry Lett’s bedded in Tom Baker’s Doc in Robot before Philip Hinchcliffe took over the reins. But I agree that it’s unlikely to happen this way. I think that shot in the trailer is a big old tease and just a bit of regen energy being released as we’ve seen several times before now. Although I’m still holding out for some weird breaking of regeneration convention maybe taking place.
I have seen several rather spoilerific descriptions of the season end, which would be very, very interesting if true, but which I suspect are probably fanboy wish fulfilment but I do think Moffat will want to go out with a bang.
@bluesqueakpip–
Ooh, I wonder ‘when’ the Simm Master is going to be from? Mr Saxon? Hoodie Master? Or just after he blasted Rassillon into his next regeneration?
I was wondering that too. I’m hoping that we’re going to get some post End of Time iteration that combines them and gives Simm the opportunity to put his own stamp on the role. I’m also very much hoping that we’re finally going to see a multi-Master story and that it’s not just seeing Simm in flashback — maybe in some scheme against the Doctor launched in his regeneration and coming to fruition in Missy’s. Not a necessarily uncool concept but a waste of an opportunity, if so….
7 April 2017 at 02:31 #56005@blenkinsopthebrave et al–
I must admit a multiple Master story has always been on my Who wishlist so I’m pretty excited by the idea. And it would be nice for Simm to get a reprise for his Master. Plus I’m looking forward to see how the two incarnations behave with each other.
Mondasian Cybermen, Ice Warriors, a regeneration and two Masters. This series is shaping up to be a heady brew indeed….
5 April 2017 at 17:08 #55973@blenkinsopthebrave — I agree a new Doctor who’s a total surprise would be great but wasn’t even possible in the pre-internet days, so it’s unlikely now. Unless … unless as this trailer seems to hint, that the regeneration will happen before Christmas. Perhaps what we’ll get is a Usual Suspects type thing with the regeneration happening early in the series and the rest of the stories some kind of arrangement of flashbacks about how it happened. Though maybe that runs the risk of being a bit too Trial of a Timelord-ey.
I do suspect that Bill is a one-series-only job. Which is a shame because going by the trailer, she looks as if she’s going to be great. And I’ll admit I was a bit wary of Nardole as a permanent fixture to begin with but I now think that the dynamic might actually work. That trailer fills me with high hopes that Moffat is going to go out on a high.
I do like the idea of a Missy/new Doctor face off as a regeneration story but again fear that it might be a bit too Time and the Rani for comfort. But I definitely have a suspicion that we’re going to see something slightly out of the ordinary this time.
5 April 2017 at 11:50 #55971I just suspect we won’t get a straightforward heroic sacrifice in a finale type of regeneration a la Smith and Tennant and that Moffat will pull out something a little more off-beam than that. What that might be, I have no idea. 12 has been less heroic and more cerebral and unpredictable anyway so I wouldn’t be surprised if this is reflected in his regeneration.
What I’d really like to see is an offscreen regeneration a la Troughton > Pertwee but doubt we’d get that. Just imagine the fun of competing or conflicting theories of how the Doctor actually did regenerate a la Reichenbach Fall.
Also the teaser in the trailer is almost certainly a red herring and not how the regen actually happens, I’ll wager.
4 April 2017 at 21:38 #55967@craig–
I suspect this will be Moffat’s last Big Tease, although I don’t think we’re going to get a straightforward regeneration this time and there will be something, um, unconventional about it this time.
But don’t those Cybermen look great.
13 March 2017 at 21:22 #55794@craig–
Blimey. indyref and new trailer on the same day. Have to say even in that briefest of snapshots the new (old) Cybermen look great. Proper scary.
11 March 2017 at 12:25 #55782Basically what @pedant said re. the two s5s. Two of the best handled arcs in TV of any genre in the best two decades.
And The Graun is so terminally toxic these days that I’ve killed that incarnation of Jim The Fish over there.
10 March 2017 at 15:05 #55772@thane15, @cathannabel and @missrori (and all) Yes, happy Buffy Day. Was thinking to mark it I’d repost the original Buffy blogs and we could revisit our own Buffy experience. Might keep us occupied till Series 10 actually shows up. I’m intending to re-watch a few choice episodes over the weekend anyway.
6 March 2017 at 19:47 #55752Think we’re safe spoiler-wise on this thread. And yes, something quite Hartnell about him. That’s something I witter on about in my long-delayed blog post. I think there’s an occasional Hartnell vibe about Capaldi — the crombie and the checked trousers last series seemed to be a riff on that in a funky hoody kind of way. Tho in that pic his outfit looks suspiciously like the one Bowie wore in the Blackstar video too…
6 March 2017 at 18:50 #55749@blenkinsopthebrave — that would indeed be awesome but going by the picture they’ve managed to make them look still pretty impressively sinister-looking while sticking to a design that’s 50 years old. They look medical, which is what I always said they should be…
I’m really looking forward to seeing this.
6 March 2017 at 18:27 #55747Had a feeling this would happen for Capaldi’s final season but can I just say Yas!!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/entries/adff0629-5ce5-4a0e-b81a-69693d489745
19 February 2017 at 21:34 #55610Nothing that could remotely be considered as ‘news’ but a nice little interview with SM here
1 February 2017 at 11:56 #55356Just to get into the swing of the endless press speculation we’re now going to get hammered with, here’s the Daily Mash….
30 January 2017 at 22:50 #55302It’s official. Capaldi is going at the end of series 10.
Oh, and big hellos to everyone. Sorry I’ve not been around. Comments on Sherlock and Xmas special presently. Oh, and possibly a blog….
1 November 2016 at 15:31 #54498waves back at @juniperfish…
oh and @juniperfish and @pedant — I’m waiting for the episode where CHA is turned into a grammar school. (Could be mistaken for an anomaly in the space/time continuum but, nah, it’s just the feckin’ Tories.) Agreed that the sponsors could well turn out to be nefarious as hell….
31 October 2016 at 00:32 #54475Sorry I’m late to the party…
Have to admit that I wasn’t all that enthused about Class when it was first announced but that was a lot better than I thought it was going to be. The two key touchstones for the show as far as I can see are Buffy and Torchwood. Certainly the revamped Coal Hill is looking suspiciously like Sunnydale High these days. It’s a natural enough move, I suppose. There’s been numerous attempts at a Brit version of Buffy and they’ve to varying degrees fallen on their arse (yes, I’m looking at you, Hex).
There’s other similarities too. Miss Quill’s symbiotic ‘punishment’ struck me as being very like the en-chipped Spike of mid-period Buffy, as did her assured anti-heroic sociopathic stance. She’s a great character (and another in the line of female psuedo-Doctor figures we’ve had of late) but I think she runs the risk of stealing the show unless the other, more juvenile, characters assert themselves a bit more. Also on a Buffy note, I thought the Shadow Kin were channelling The Beast from s4 of Angel a wee bitty too much.
The Torchwood aspect I think is rather more of a negative one. I’m two episodes in so far and Miss Quill aside I’m finding the cast are yet to really come alive, to bond. And they really need to. Because otherwise you get Torchwood, a dominant, otherworldly figure, surrounded by a collection of bland, samey characters. I have high hopes though. Mrs Fish is very keen on Patrick Ness and @craig has indicated, Nightvisitors seems to take a step into deeper character territory. I suspect we need a bit more humour but that may come if we see them bond a bit more. (We need a collective noun for them though. The Coalies?)
I agree with @juniperfish that the title ‘Class’ is going to be more than just a school reference. I didn’t have too much of a problem with the obvious human parallels in the Rhodian culture (am I the only one who was thinking ‘Greedo’ everytime that was mentioned btw?). Though I agree it would be nice to see the influence of Banks’s The Culture maybe start to be felt in mainstream SF.
The Doctor’s guest appearance was very welcome in this long drought of Who we’re enduring and PC seems well and truly comfortably in the role now — which augurs well for next series. A new Doctor is only really established I think when you have a fair idea how they will react to certain situations and I think it took PC (deliberately) longer to get there than most. He does have a tendency to slip into a slight impersonation of the Fourth Doctor sometimes though and he was very much in that mode here. I think I prefer the more mercurial version of Listen/Heaven Sent, who seems far more unique to PC personally. But he definitely seems much more assured and in command of the role than in his earlier days.
Having said that, it was possibly a shame that he did rather commandeer the end of the episode and maybe that’s what making me feel that the Coalies (yes, I went there) haven’t quite managed to establish themselves yet (Dragon Tattoo felt like too much of a breathless runaround to help matters either). It might have been better if they had had more of a hand in the denouement, rather than ‘the ‘Doctor arrives and saves everyone’.
So, quite promising but it’s not there yet. If the characters bond and the show forms strongly around their relationships then this could really work. But if it doesn’t get there in three or four episodes max then I suspect I’ll be tuning out again. And it is nice to see that Ness and co have made use of the fact that they’re working in the online medium and not been afraid to go darker than perhaps the show would have been if it had been made for terrestrial TV. Same with Fleabag (which everybody should also take the time to watch in my opinion.)
17 October 2016 at 12:26 #54256With regards the Aberfan discussion of @pedant and @puroandson a while back
Greenslade talking about how it was less than the Press’s finest hour. It’s depressing the amount of times the UK press has utterly failed in its responsibilities, compared to its so-called victories.
13 October 2016 at 09:08 #54194@puroandson–
he chose a Blog by @jimthefish on the Buffyverse which was also well loved by the teacher
You’ve no idea how chuffed that makes me. (And is that ‘make like a tree and bark’?)
Sorry, I’ve not been around much but I’ve taken the lurch back into full-time further education again and it’s been a surprisingly rapacious devourer of time (which in itself sounds like the title of a dodgy piece of fanfic).
Good to see some much-loved faces on the site again though. Hi to @cathannabel — loved the blog btw. The entry on Theresa May was brilliant, really encapsulating the concern that I think a lot of people are feeling about the dangerous lurch the country is taking at the moment.
And also good to see our esteemed emperor @craig back with us. Hope you’re well on the mend.
10 August 2016 at 10:21 #53638@missrori–
I’ve not read Supremacy yet but I’ve largely heard good things about it. Think I’ll wait for the inevitable TP.
As to the Doctor finding peace — well, do we really want that? Wouldn’t that mean that the story –and the show — was essentially at an end?
9 August 2016 at 13:56 #53632Actually, given the heaven/hell and death motifs in his tenure thus far, perhaps the Twelfth Doctor’s “big” arc will finally reveal there is a real promised land and give him something to work towards/look forward to?
Yes, this has definitely been an arc for the 12th Doctor. But I think with Heaven Sent/Hell Bent we’ve seen either the culmination of it, or a curveball. As the Doc said to the Clockwork Man in Deep Breath, he doesn’t believe in the Promised Land. That was probably a lie, given utterances later in the series. The Doctor did believe in the Promised Land (aka Gallifrey) but when he eventually found it, it was corrupted, disappointing and had to be overthrown. This, to my mind, casts the Doctor as Satan (in a very much Miltonic sense).
Where it goes now is open to speculation. Is the Gallifrey story ‘done’ now? Or is the story now the building of a new promised land? I suspect it’s the former….
26 July 2016 at 15:04 #53439Yeah, I get the PTSD thing, although I think there’s a danger in overstating it. From memory, I think it’s really only implied, mostly in that scene with his class. I don’t think it was ever really returned to. Which is just as well because it’s a hell of a thing to just throw in there for a companion to deal with.
I agree that his final pay-off was good but we didn’t really spend enough time with him for it to work. Rory (and Mickey) had the same problem initially and it wasn’t until he spent some time actually on TARDIS adventures that he really came alive as a character, I think. For Danny’s character, and subsequent sacrifice, to be truly meaningful, we should really have seen him spend more time as crew, butting heads with the Doctor, offering an alternative approach etc. He would have really worked in Time Heist, for instance.
But I do think s8 is a really good one, if a little different from the breathless, kinetic style of Tennant and Smith’s best series. I also suspect it’s one of those ones whose reputation is going to grow over time.
25 July 2016 at 10:51 #53427@puroandson et al
I personally really liked s8 and thought it an improvement on s7, which, barring a few high points, namely the ‘of the Doctor’ sequence, was starting to look a bit tired. I suspect that at least to begin with there was some general ambivalence to Capaldi’s Doc — for reasons that I’ll raise in a blog I’m currently writing — and I’d agree that Danny Pink did not help either. He was to my mind a character that never really worked. He could have if perhaps he’d been a regular TARDIS traveller but the just dropping in and out of episodes, combined with the fact that he spent a lot of that time being a passive-aggressive arse didn’t really help.
23 July 2016 at 23:09 #53411@puroandson–
The TV series you’re thinking of is The Hanging Gale. And I’ve known I’ve said this before, but fans of McGann should really check out the dramatisation of Our Mutual Friend from 10 or so years ago. Not only is it a roll call of familiar Who faces, it’s got some splendid performances in it, including a great one from McGann.
As for the TV Movie, personally I think it got more right than it got wrong. It was just the general plot that was wrong rather than anything majorly tonal or structural I think. If there had been a TV series then I think it would have found its feet in no time at all….
14 July 2016 at 15:15 #53258I hesitate to describe this as news but as it’s kind of thin on the ground at the mo’, I’m going to stretch a point….
PC meeting fans during filming. I’m personally very happy to see that the hoodie look is back. The velvet coat thing was cool but a bit too generically Doctorish for my taste….
14 July 2016 at 15:11 #53257@puroandson — sorry for the delay in getting back to you but … news (please someone make it stop)…
In reply to your question of frikkin’ ages ago, I am emphatically not a DC fanboy. It’s Marvel all the way for me. Although 2000AD trumps them both.
6 July 2016 at 11:48 #53130That sounds excellent. Will duly be downloading. I have fond memories of the old Who pinball game (in the old RGIT union in Aberdeen I seem to remember).
Yeah, I definitely did to a blog on video games but I can’t find it either now. Many of the older blogs have now been lost in a morass of fan film reviews, it seems….
6 July 2016 at 11:36 #53129@missy–
That thing you posted is, I’m afraid, the most terrible piece of Brexiteer bollocks — of the kind that was getting cut and pasted into newspaper forums on an hourly basis (not to mention clogging up the inboxes of news editors up and down the country in the run-up to the referendum). Almost all the capital and investment flight it mentions is sod all to do with the EU and everything to do with UK industrial and taxation policy. That it happened while the UK was within the EU is neither here nor there. Correlation is not causation.
However, this whopper:
BUT the European Commission who dictate 55% of UK laws
has been bandied about so much that the House of Commons Library had to write a report on it. The true answer is a ‘how long is a piece of string’ type thing, depending on how much cherry-picking of the facts you want to do. But there’s the top line:
The study said 13.2% of all laws made in the UK between 1993 and 2014 have been EU-related.
Now, on top of that, the UK does have to enact legislation made solely in the EU — much of which contains vetoes and opt-outs — and much of which involves pesky things like maximum working weeks, statutory holiday pay for freelance and casual workers (yay!) and all those things that Tory-voting employers would much rather not have to do.
But the idea that the UK has lost anything like its legislative sovereignty is and always has been utter pish.
Frankly, all this ‘you can make Britain Great again’ (the Great, incidentally referred to geography — roughly Greater Brittany, as opposed to Lesser Brittany on the coast of what is now France. It’s got sod all to do with ‘greatness’ or any other puke-inducing concepts of jingoistic superiority). But it’s the emptiest kind of rhetoric, not unlike a father trying to comfort his jilted daughter with ‘a beautiful girl like can only have a brilliant future, there are plenty more fish in the sea’ type platitudes. If they’re both living in a one-horse mining town in No Hope Gulch then realistically it ain’t going to happen.
And with the pound plummeting, stocks in freefall and the prospect of future capital flight that makes anything that happened in the past 20-odd years look like a walk in the park, it’s going to take a lot more than that for Britain to be anything other than an economic basket-case. My one (thankfully increasingly likely) hope is that Scotland will vote for independence and extricate itself from the whole sorry mess….
30 June 2016 at 20:48 #53019@pedant — that looks rather excellent…
30 June 2016 at 16:48 #5301229 June 2016 at 12:38 #52983@mersey — my apologies. I misread your comment.
29 June 2016 at 11:22 #52981@mersey — @XA24 is based in the UK and so is very much directly involved/affected by the omnishambles that is Brexit. And no, @lisa, I don’t remotely think that the EU will be inclined to offer England a deal. The prevailing attitude seems to be ‘go and go now’. And you can’t blame them on top of the Brexit vote you have Farage trotting off to insult them to their faces like an utter twunt and Cameron still trying to dictate terms. I mean, why would they?
@ichabod and @puroandson — Big Government, even World Government, is a nice idea and it might happen eventually but we’re nowhere near it. At the moment, it’s not working. It’s leaving too many people behind, which is why knuckle-dragging demagogues like Trump and Farage can hold so much sway. Rather in the immediate future, I suspect the future is something smaller, interlocking, but subject to a greater degree of checks and balances than the EU currently is. But that doesn’t mean that the wisest thing is to walk away from the EU. In the short term, the best bet for everybody is to make it work, and work properly.
It’s true though that there are big questions that need to be answered. Things like controlling climate change and curbing population but because we’re firmly in the age of short-termism, no politician really wants to touch them with a bargepole.
27 June 2016 at 11:18 #52952@bluesqueakpip–
We do indeed. But I suspect you’re right in that democratically speaking this was something that had to happen. If it hadn’t been the Brexit vote, it would have been something else eventually. The politics of the last couple of centuries had more or less reached its shelf life. I just kinda wish it hadn’t been over something with such implications, and that those in charge of driving it forward weren’t such a bunch of incompetent, untrustworthy fudricks….
27 June 2016 at 10:54 #52950@pedant–
Boris is trying to put the shit back in the horse.
Yep, I think that pretty much sums it up. But for all the talk of second referendums, or ignoring this one, it doesn’t look like there’s any going back. The rest of the EU is rightly pissed off and just wants it done. The Leavers are now faced with the prospect of having to make this work with no idea of how to do so. The economy is already nose-diving and as you say it’s going to get much worse. I think the UK (ultimately sans Scotland hopefully, and possibly N Ireland too) is going to look very different 10 years from now. And it ain’t going to be pretty. It’s hard to imagine a worse clusterfuck in recent political history.
So I really hope Nicola Sturgeon is as good as everyone thinks she is – because this is way beyond an simple nationalism question now
Here’s hoping, but yeah, she’s really got to step up to the plate now. I think she can though. What she has, that pretty much everyone else at the moment lacks, is the common touch and she does genuinely listen to people. And she’s definitely not to be messed with. And you’re right, indyref2 has definitely acquired weight merely beyond questions of Scottish nationalism.
@ichabod–
good post and dead right. It’s been my increasing belief that we’re at the start of a seismic shift in living and political patterns as great as the change from an agrarian/cottage industry-based world to the urban industrial revolution era one. It’s one of those times where everything changes. My feeling is that the big corporate structures (especially those around the ‘creative industries’) will eventually go, that the eventual arrival of some kind of Universal Basic Income will change even the idea of ‘having a career/job’
But it ain’t going to be an easy transition and lots of people will have to be dragged into kicking and screaming. There’s going to be a few more Brexit-like scenarios before we’re done, I reckon.
26 June 2016 at 23:43 #52937@bluesqueakpip–
I’d say it’s constitutionally impossible not to hold a second Indyref.
I’d like to think so but I’m not convinced. I suspect that PM Boris might try to dig his heels in and try anything to avoid giving Scotland another referendum and we may be looking at a situation not unlike Spain and Catalonia for a few years. On the other hand, it’s hard to see how you can rise to power on a ticket of demanding the voice of the people be heard, taking back countries etc and then deny that to another.
I suspect Scottish Independence is part of a wider revolt simply because it fits in all the ‘revolt against the established order’ movements. Occupy, Trumpism, Brexit, Scottish Independence – they’re all part of a growing feeling that the status quo is simply not working for most people.
Yes, I think you’re right (although Scottish independence has been brewing for 30-odd years now. It’s hardly just come out of the blue). And despite its unashamed neo-Marxist take, I think Paul Mason made some good points in Post-Capitalism. The fault lines are starting to show in the very infrastructure of capitalism, due to many factors, including the decline of industry, the rise of the internet, globalisation, the decline of traditional political power blocs and so on. The traditional Right vs Left, Bosses vs Workers, Toffs vs Proles binary oppositions no longer work because British society just isn’t ordered along those lines any longer. And, of course, the last ones to get the message are the political classes, largely because they’re the ones with the greatest vested interest in staving off this change for as long as possible.
But I suspect the fundamental changes in the way we are living our lives now is going to require a fundamentally different politics. I just have no idea what that is going to involve. I suspect no one does yet.
26 June 2016 at 13:58 #52924@puroandson– Hello!! Good to see you again. Yes, been out of the world for a while. Been busy and not much happening in the Whoniverse so enthusiasm definitely on the wane. Not really giving a stuff about Class at the moment but perhaps that will change when it arrives.
It’s actually very similar result to the one in Scotland – except there, it was Glasgow and Dundee who were largely for Independence
With the best will in the world, Pip, I’m not sure that analogy doesn’t really hold up. The EU vote was definitely a popular vote against perceived elites (and one which I personally think is going to bite them in the long run). But I don’t think the big Yes votes in Dundee and Glasgow can be put down to just some kind of popular revolt — although, yes, they are poorer areas but prior to 2014 they were also traditionally among the stronger Unionist areas too. So, there is an element of that but I think the establishment of a Scottish Parliament, the rise of the SNP and the implosion of a corrupt and venal Scottish Labour Party made the situation far more complex and indeed continues to do so.
But for me the best thing to come out of this mess is that it’s put a second independence referendum clearly back on the cards.
24 June 2016 at 22:43 #52880@ichabod–
Maxwell Edison was a recurring character in the comic strip in Doctor Who Magazine, from which the above frame was unmercifully ripped. DWM has just celebrated its 500th issue (thus making me feel incredibly old) and has celebrated with a special strip that has reunited many of its major writers and artists over the years. The issue is well worth seeking out btw and has lots of goodies, including a pretty good interview with Steven Moffat.
As for the fudrick — it does indeed refer to the tumultuous events in Britain of the last 24 hours. But perhaps that’s best left to the Fox Inn, if not outrightly glossed over altogether…
24 June 2016 at 15:03 #52873On a day when it seems the fudricks have taken over the asylum (with the fall of Cameron being the most meagre recompense), can I just say that seeing the mighty Dave Gibbons’s rendering of the 12th Doctor made me squee just a little bit…
27 April 2016 at 15:05 #51936@puroandson — not that much of a cover-up considering that everyone could see just how unjust the whole thing was. I’d recommend Jimmy McGovern’s docudrama Hillsborough or his Cracker story To Be A Somebody to anyone who wanted a bit of background….
26 April 2016 at 21:48 #51924@mersey — I doubt it. It’s without a doubt the most shameful moment in British journalism. Even that front page doesn’t seem particularly contrite, if you ask me…
26 April 2016 at 19:25 #51922@mersey — yes, it’s been a long time coming. Too long.
26 April 2016 at 17:13 #51920@bluesqueakpip — It will be very interesting indeed to see how The Sun handle tomorrow’s front page…
14 April 2016 at 13:16 #51656@bluesqueakpip — Just saw that. Very sad news. He was a face that popped up in all kinds of places — including showing a surprising gift for comedy in places. But I guess he’ll always be Blake…
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