The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

I am at the annual school camp in the Peak District. There is a sweet shop down the lane, we are allowed to go there once a day. They sell D...

The idea of St Patrick’s day parades and parties was mostly thought up by the Irish ex-pat community in New York, who (as you’d expect) want...

Everyone knows what Doctor Who is like: monsters in rubber suits, cardboard sets, impenetrable techno babble, over-acting thespians. When L...

So: Scaroth is going to travel back in time and prevent the explosion that shattered him into twelve fragments and marooned him on earth. If...

It’s set in Paris. It has to be set in Paris because it’s about the theft of the Mona Lisa: the theft of the Fighting Temeraire wouldn’t hav...

Tom Chadbon may have been cast as Duggan because he looked a little like Tintin. But the Sixteen Million — and me — would have instantly ide...

My latest collection of Serious Essays is now available as a 150 page PDF book. It contains  --  The second part of my critique of CS Lewis...

City of Death is very good. Perhaps not quite as good as its reputation suggests: but definitely very good. On October 20th 1979, sixteen mi...

Destiny of the Daleks is not very good. It is quite hard to put your finger on what exactly is wrong with it. I think the answer is probably...