The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
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And now it's precisely 20:27!
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It's nearly 2026!
Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Away In a Culture War
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In England, complaining about the Post Office’s commemorative stamps is almost as important a Christmas tradition as the sending of cards. T...
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Sunday, December 28, 2025
NOTE: Trigger Happy
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One of the 2,400 comments under the Daily Mail's piece about Julian Clary sometimes telling blue jokes is a helpful comment by "Ga...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Triggers are wonderful things...
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I know this will look like a set up, but I honestly didn't plan it. Several hon. members "Oh yes you did!" Self: "Oh no ...
Monday, December 22, 2025
The Wonderful Thing About Triggers
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CONTENT WARNING: May contain the Daily Mail. Is it a good idea to inform punters about the contents of a movie or a play before they buy a t...
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Thursday, November 20, 2025
The Bringer of Dreams
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First Contact? by Hugh Walters The latest instalment of my occasional series looking back on a series of science fiction novels you almost d...
VII: The Chief End of Man
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Previous Section What on Earth or Uranus does Hugh Walters think he is doing? I don’t think the God-talk can be written off as window dress...
VI: The Most Tremendous Tale of All
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Previous Section Chariots of the Gods (published in 1968) set out to debunk religion. Primitive Man saw spaceships and aliens and mistook t...
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V: Who Mourns for Adonis?
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Previous Section If this were an adult science fiction novel — and I fully grok that it is not — I think we would expect it to develop in ...
IV: Life, the Universe and Everything
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Previous Section On page 89 of the book old “Whiskers”, the comic relief ex-Battle of Britain duffer tells Lord Benson, out of the blue “I t...
III: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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Previous Section The boffins have detected peculiar signals coming from...Planetty MacPlanetFace. No-one can listen to the signals for ver...
II: The Road Less Travelled
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Previous Section Science fiction is about opening doors and looking at things from new angles. I remember the first line of 2001: A Space Od...
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