The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

or Why I am no longer talking to Doctor Who fans about race                    Tom Baker is my favourite Doctor; Philip Hinchclif...

Some times, at folk music festivals, after the main act has finished, there is a "sing-around" in a pub, where the punters are as...

If it is the intention to expose comprehensively the downside of recipients of statues in Bristol, why stop at Colston. To the equestrian st...

After all, my erstwhile dear, My no longer cherished, Need we say it was not love, Just because it perished? How do you follow the mo...

So there's a plot afoot to rename the Colston Hall. OK, he was a slave trader, but he did a lot for Bristol, building schools, alms ...

Blogger has pleasant chat with his readers: asks them what they want him to write about next. 

There is a scheme to add an explanatory plaque to the statue of Edward Colston which stands in the center of Bristol.  The current statu...

For a limited time, my collected "Last Jedi" essays are available for only £4.00. (if you go for it right now. Lulu will ...

The death of Uncle Ben -- from Amazing Fantasy 15, Amazing Spider-Man 50, Spectacular Spider-Man 1 and Amazing Spider-Man 94 I...