Time to look back at 2025 one more time. My annual Doctor Who In Memoriam is on You Tube now. Please watch, like and circulate. Oh, and please just be nice about it and Doctor Who as there are plenty of other places you can be otherwise. youtu.be/mfNDgewmlEU?...

I’m just nipping off social media for a bit; I can feel it grating at me and irritating my angst, which isn’t healthy. See you soon, look after each other 🥰

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

Xmas Done Got Funky! (Thanks 🙏 to @driftrecords.com) 🎄🎅🥳 #musicsky #recordsky #vinylsky

People: Why don’t you like football? Me: 👇 Also me: 🤢

The Express is furious about this because the moment you show those who repeat anti-immigration rhetoric the real human stories their narrative collapses. The “immigrants” are people. Our friends, colleagues and family. And it’s this nation of neighbours that is what makes Britain great.

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This is adorable. Mariah Carey's Christmas classic but reimagined in 1940s Andrews Sisters style by the wonderful Postmodern Jukebox. The harmonies are *chef's kiss* www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bl9...

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Because she doesn’t get enough love, and because I’m having one of those 'why am I like this?' moments... something daft for everyone’s favourite character the writers forgot they’d brought to the studio, Nyssa. #DoctorWho

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Already updating my Christmas playlist to include a cardinal omission - Mary’s Boy Child / Oh My Lord by Boney M - and to add Rockin’ Robin by The Hollies - double whammy there! - which automatically leads to the inclusion of the mashup Smells Like Rockin’ Robin - not heard it before? …

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Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

STAFF TAKEOVER!!!! Our Miss M is turning 80 today!!! Comment or tag with videos of your own best wishes and/or movies, songs, jokes, philanthropy that inspired you, and we will make sure she gets them…even if we have to keep her up all night!!! Happy BIRTHDAY BETTE !!

1 December, in this house. #DoctorWho #Christmas

November’s reading round-up including my #BookoftheYear Everything Will Swallow You by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox - buy it (from an indy bookshop), borrow it (from your local library, & make them order it in if they haven’t already), gift it, but please read it 🙏. #booksky #TheStoryGraph

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay

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The “shocking climax” of the Doctor Who spin-off, The War Between the Land and the Sea has a deceptively mild title. #DoctorWho cultbox.co.uk/news/the-war...

In 2013, I accidentally talked to Newsnight about Doctor Who. And bugger me, it’s still online. The most significant impact I’ve ever had on the world & I’ve achieved nothing since. About 3 minutes into the first clip. www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...

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Happy birthday @morganwhovian13.bsky.social - hope you have a great day 🥳

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Introduce yourself with five concerts you've been to: Siouxsie & the Banshees Shirley Bassey Tina Turner Mari Wilson Toyah

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📺 🔍 NEW We said we’d sue over Ofcom’s decision to dismiss 22,000 complaints about transphobia on TalkTV – now the regulator has caved. https://goodlaw.social/ycba

What is everyone expecting from The War Between the Land and the Sea?

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THREAD. 3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead. We decided to call him Jim. This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.

Support artists. Trust writers. Tom’s experience with his publisher is heartbreaking and maddening. I’m so pleased that as a reader and lover of his work, I can tell him here how much his books mean to me.

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Oh, Udo Kier … 😢

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