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The Waters of Mars was shown while I was driving across southern Connecticut to catch my plane from JFK last weekend, so it was a day or two before I caught up with it. I enjoyed it. I think RTD is rather good at the base-under-siege stories, and Lindsay Duncan, who I don't think I had seen ...
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Doctor Who
Well, I have very nearly caught up with myself after my 17-day trip which included five countries, five hotels and three overnight flights. I can't write much here about the actual trip to Juba, but I can share with you some of the photographs I took (below the cut): This is me in front of the ...
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Dr. Horrible
reading_gibbon: Chapter IX: The state of Germany till the invasion of the Barbarians This chapter does what it says in the title, giving us an account of the Germans largely (and occasionally critically) based on Tacitus, and ending by wondering why they did not make more effort to ...
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November Books 17) Time Of Your Life , by Steve Lyons I rather enjoyed this vicious satire on television, including biting swipes at Mary Whitehouse and the cancellation of Old Who in 1989; meanwhile the Doctor, just poist-Trial, is wracked with guilt about Peri and with unease about what will ...
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Doctor Who
What the EU's new leaders tell us about Europe | Charlemagne's notebook | Economist.com (tags: eu ) BREAKING: Leaked UK government plan to create "Pirate Finder General" with power to appoint militias, create laws - Boing Boing ...
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...and I am not being even slightly ironic: She has a full-sized Dalek in her living room .
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Dalek
Catherine Tate
Doctor Who
sevenorora: The British âœpressâ at its best? Fair comment (tags: eu Belgium ) qcjeph: Seriously, stop it Couldn't agree more! (tags: humour funny internet livejournal )
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...that is, not the second half of it. I have to say that Cathy Ashton has not made a huge impact in her first year in Brussels; the next few years may be a different matter.
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More or less by coincidence, this is the second book about Congo that I have read this month. This is the story of an earlier era, of the awful exploitation, rape and murder of vast numbers of Africans under the personal supervision of Leopold II, King of the Belgians. Hochschild admits that ...
Books
Stephen King
âœI am not a number! I am a free bland!â: <em>The Prisoner</em> I had been looking forward tothis, but it sounds like it was pretty terrible. One comment that caught my eye: "A few days ago, I would have been willing to watch Sir Ian McKellen read the ...
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I spent last weekend in the unlikely location of the UConn campus in Storrs, Connecticut, at a conference on Elizabeth I and Ireland . As some of you know, I have an unhealthy obsession with my ancestor, Sir Nicholas White, who was a senior political figure in 16th-century Ireland until he died ...
Books
Elizabeth Bear
I only realised after reading this that I had already heard the excellent audio adaptation which includes Sophie Aldred and Anneke Wills. The original book is very good too, and I think would be reasonably penetrable for someone who hadn't previously followed the Bernice Summerfield stories. ...
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Doctor Who
Matthew Fox
Martha Jones
As ever, a reliably hilarious tale of antics in Florida - this time with less political commentary than some of the other Hiaasen books I have read, but compensated by even more vivid characters, only one of whom is too unpleasant to be believable. Excellent stuff.
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This is a short but tough play. At the opening, Medea resents Jason for bringing her to Corinth and then abandoning her for the local princess: she swears revenge, and using her own children by Jason as unwitting tools, poisons both the king and the princess (and the kids too). It's a horrible ...
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Jason O'Mara
This is a rather unusual Hugo winner. It's a curious amalgam of the great post-holocaust novels Earth Abides and After London on the one hand, and the suspicion of clones latent in Brave New World on the other. The depiction of sexual politics as humanity tries to reinvent itself is core to the ...
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Kate Wilhelm
I love Les Miserables , both the novel and the show (NB to those who know only the latter - Gavroche is the Thenardiers' son and therefore Eponine's sister), and of course everyone knows the stereotype of the Hunchback, so I was looking forward to reading this. It's a novel of biting social ...
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She has been deported to Spain, apparently because she wrote "Western Sahara" rather than "Morocco" as her country of residence on her immigration form and refused to change it. In terms of international law she is entirely correct, but to assert that the people of Western Sahara should have ...
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I don't often post work-specific stuff here but this is so outrageous that I must. Aminatou Haidar is a human rights activist from the Western Sahara, most of which has been occupied by Morocco for the last thirty years. Last year she was given the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award ; last ...
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Foundation
... Michael Moorcock to write Doctor Who book . Of course, he has already included the Doctor and a Dalek in one of his earlier works!
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Michael Moorcock
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Dalek
A collection of four short graphic stories, each centred around a social misfit and showimg him or her both as they see themselves and as they are seen by others, with sometimes brutal clarity. Tomine's ability to depict multiple viewpoints is pretty amazing. Few of his characters are ...
