The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

Flash, who more or less converted me to the delights of single malt, notes that in my diatribe on nationalism, I contrast the symbolism of S...

GOOD NEWS. The BBC decided to show Covent Garden's Rhinegold and Valkyrie over the Easter Weekend. Doctor Who AND Wagner. (And Earth...

Something struck me while looking up quotes for me "found poem." In "The Time Monster" the Doctor recalls his mentor bri...

1: Have you noticed how everytime there's a first espisode of Doctor Who, a world leader dies? Well, in this case, an ex-world leader, b...

You're going. You're gone for ages, Already gone. You're still here, Just arrived, We haven't even met yet. Every great deci...

The strangest thing about the Paul McGann TV Movie was not the line "I am half human on my mother's side." Nor was it the kiss...

Once upon a time there was a clever young writer. His job was to write funny jokes for a famous comedian. But one day, the famous comedian f...

For me, William Hartnell, Tom Baker and (I know I am going to get yelled at for this) Sylvester McCoy are "The Doctor". The others...

Before slipping out of negative mode. RTD has also said that he wants the stories to be about "human beings" because no-one c...

Russel T Davies has been quoted as saying that he is irritated when people complain that Disney changed the ending of The Little Mermaid. W...

My MP sent me a card to tell me that she was proud of Britain. Which is nice. It has a picture of a row of seven kids, in those absurd blaze...

The more we believe that God hurts only to heal, the less we can believe that there is any use in begging for tenderness. A cruel man might ...

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Some of us thought that the "islamic headwear in school" thing was about where you choose to position the slider on the "indi...

Yes, I know you've probably seen it before.

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"I'm sure Tolkien might have probably turned in his grave, but it was in keeping with the vision that Pete had for Legolas and stuf...

The Church doesn't approve of re-marriage, and doesn't really like the idea of civil marriages very much, however, they are quite ha...

I learned one thing from watching the extended cut of Return of the King . Whatever else Peter Jackson may be, he is a very good editor. Whe...