@blenkinsopthebrave

Well… is that good art? For any reason? If the fans keep making noise we’ll keep getting this nonsense.

In any case, Russ can never say ‘yes, that’s what it is. You’re absolutely right,’ before the reveal. Or there would be no reveal.

Is this the real divide with those who sporadically want to forget continuity and reduce…[Read more]

@dwnerdfrommars

Project 2025…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c977njnvq2do

The Handmaid’d Tale…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale

see links in this article to The Moral Majority & Christian Coalition.

The Left (and I) would say the root of this is ‘The Lost Cause’…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

La Nina may be warm and settled for Europe; El Nino, relatively wet and cool. But the engine for the phenomena is on the other side of the world and the results often masked by solar activity and volcanoes going off.

I hate the heat. El Nino is for me, quite literally, cool.

@dentarthurdent

Up until mid June I was happy to say ‘this is normal, you’ve just forgotten what a real British summer is like.’ But the last 5 days have been a tad wet.

To paraphrase tRump, ‘it’ll get warm again real soon. You see.’

Climatic links between Europe and El Nino are speculative (Nino is blamed for poor climate preceding the French…[Read more]

@ dentarthurdent @nerys

2 confessions. I didn’t thoroughly fact check either of my statements. tRump’s actual words were, ‘Nigel is a man who truly loves his country.’ Perhaps there is a subtle difference there somewhere but ‘Gold Lift’ DJT ain’t known for his subtlety is he?

Project 2025… my comment was very off the cuff. Sorry. I have now read…[Read more]

@fozzyb

Thanks for the reply, and no problems being late. The more considered the better.
My own position? I do like to talk up this version of the show. I did not like Zchib’s and 13. The first female Doctor (if you ignore Ruth) deserved better writing… as it was, it got so bad that I can’t comment on Yaz post Fam. Couldn’t watch it. Yes, I’…[Read more]

@nerys

Donald denies having anything to do it. As Mandy Rice Davies would say, ‘well, he would, wouldn’t he.’

Otherwise the project and the tale… what came first?  The answer is the Lost Cause.

@blenkinsopthebrave @dentarthurdent @mudlark @nerys @ craig

Well, in current circumstances, and particularly after the 1999 reform, discussion of tHoL is a bit like turning your lounger so you can better admire D-28.

But… is a bicameral system needed or are they all based on the model of tHoL?

What would I like? More effective checks and b…[Read more]

@mudlark @dentarthurdent @blenkinsopthebrave @nerys @craig

What do we have?

Starmer’s government seem to acknowledge the limitations of their mandate, which is awfully humble of them. But they already sound a bit like a man trying to get out of a straight jacket. This hole is not going to be scaled by some Johnsonesque wheeze or flim f…[Read more]

@craig

Alan Rankine feeding a chocolate guitar (from Harrods I believe) to the audience on TotP

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj-CJ9FEW28

This was about the time they recorded Sulk. Billy McKenzie thought it was a good idea to feed his Whippets on smoked salmon from room service at The Holiday Inn.

@craig

… lots of planets have a north. Lots of people are a bit beige. Mind you, did you see the pic of Kier as Stuart Adamson/Billy McKenzie c1982?

More importantly, NOT a buffoon! Though they may have adjusted the audio on his victory speech. And he had notes! You need notes, Nigel… if you’re going to say more than ‘hate!’ And ‘woke!’

@nerys @winston

Yes, the prospect of November is very concerning. It has rather tempered my delight at the result of the UK election. I’m afraid, whatever you think about Biden’s health and age, he’s carrying the can for cost of living, isn’t he?

In the UK, the other big issue was conduct in Public Office. Certain areas of the Conserv…[Read more]

@thane16

‘Splice’ was surely more about Tecteun…

so… Doctor Who? Doctor What? But also… whither Gallifrey?

I did prick my ears up when Harriet mentioned The Mara. I also wondered about Colony Sarff in The Witch’s Familiar. Not sure reality could handle it all again after Daft Jackal (aka Sutekh). Kinda and Snakedance were great, but a full on M…[Read more]

@thane16

The Harbinger link to Silver Nemesis made me wonder about the Cybermen.

Cybermen need special handling. The origin stories… Age of Steel, World Enough and Time, are the interesting ones… thereafter it becomes Mass Mook Death or, in the words of The Cult of Skaro, ‘pest control.’

The fact that the Finetime Flakes were essenti…[Read more]

@janetteb

Thanks!

Sorry, I made a meal of this. Democracy (and the alternative) is complicated. Of course. Richard Miles, ‘Ancient Worlds’: I recommend.

I still have my fingers crossed. It seems a shoo-in. ‘Why so tense, Potter?’

Fine day. Big turn-out, you hope.

Reminded of talk from my musical hero’s, as the sixties became seventies…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave @winston

Tolerance! Yes.

Not Primords

Bright and fine for most of England. Showers in Scotland.

@whohar @jimthefish @craig @blenkinsopthebrave

‘No religion or politics in Ulster pubs.’ Sounds like sound advice.

My political philosophy probably doesn’t bear writing down but it’s probably something along the lines of ‘if you poke someone long enough about religion or politics long enough, they’ll probably tell you to get lost.’ (That’s the…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave @whohar @craig

You might not believe it but I find writing about politics quite nerve-wracking. You really don’t know what people think. Your friendly anglophile Democrat in voluntary exile down the road may well be quite Republican. They look exactly the same. Are you going to ask them?

The much vaunted ‘silent maj…[Read more]

@craig

I am always utterly startled by the educated, switched on, independent people I meet, the last people you might think ‘oh yeah, you’re apathetic’, who then say to you: ‘bunch of wasters. I’m not voting.’ And then immediately, ‘don’t you agree?’ And you’re like rabbit in the headlights because it’s a social event and you don’t really want…[Read more]

@devilishrobby

I do hope you’re recovering!

The TTC followed a season I detested, so I really wasn’t in the mood for a load of exposition from Dharwan, never my favourite Loon anyway.

Exposition is a problem Who, where nothing ever ought to be as it seems. It ruined the end of the Family of Blood and most of Time of The Doctor. The End of Tim…[Read more]