The Stop the War Doctor (my wife's joke)

The Truth is Out There

Forget all that anti-Thatcher sentiment in the Cartmel Years: Here's the Iron Lady Doctor and her companions spreading individualism and neo-liberal economics across time and space. Ice Hot Professor!!

Looks more like Janet Brown

New Labour, New Doctor

A doomed, Romantic figure heading into obvilion

Ted would have loved The Sea Devils

Sunak's a Star Wars geek but his tireless promotion of Maths probably means he'd be into Season 18

Not much difference really with the 12th Doctor

These two did break my heart slightly

Kier Starmer as the 15th Doctor. You'll note, Starmer only resigned yesterday and the piocturee on the left suggest Copilot as already forgotten what he looks like.

More Tories as Doctor Who monsters.

Shock new footage

If, as @theiainmartin.bsky.social suggest, Starmer was the Sixth Doctor, which regeneration/reboot will Andy Burnham be?

Far too pleased with myself for this one not to flag it up - and the original genius idea from @theiainmartin.bsky.social

Robert Peston is a piece of shit.

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/o... Look at this very local Reform cunt bitching about the electoral system. You could have had a system that reflected percentage of vote but the right-wing press told you to stick with FPTP. Suck it up buttercup.

Reform's cinematic fantasies. Surprised they didn't say they were Batman.

What's that? Stirring somewhere in the political ecosystem? Could it be? Hope? That the country could be pushing back against the fash and their fellow travellers? Let's hope so, and enjoy the feeling.

That's a brave decision to open Doomwatch: The Web of Fear with a naked John Savident in a sauna with his private (male) secretary. Sexy timezzzzz

On this day in 2005: The Parting of the Ways. Best regeneration story in New Who, Daleks get religion, the Doctor is the Heathen. And then 20 years later and other old series foe goes all religious. (I quite liked The Reality War, but it's quite a move in two decades)

Meta - your Ray Ban advert may feature some achingly hip people hawking your desperately creepy product but they just look like cunts cos-playing being blind. As sad as Zuckerberg and he's the second saddest man in the world

Happy #Bloomsday and #Sussex Day Here's James Joyce in Bognor Regis in 1923. Some of Finnegan's Wake is written during this time in Sussex. Here's some more significant Irish authors, who are all connected, who spent time in Sussex #sussexday

It's both Sussex Day and Bloomsday. Joyce wrote part of Finnegan's Wake in Bognor Regis. But none of Ulysses

Bell ends (particularly on Tikytok): the reason there are unresolved plotlines in the recent run of Doctor Who is because RTD was planning on more than two seasons and a hardcore Keep Britain Tidy campaign. And 'the boss' would have been shit anyway, unless it was a rebooted BOSS.

Let's pause for a moment and consider that The Scum 1) think the Daleks are only concerned with racism as part of RTD's 'woke agenda' (because RTD's second twist was so Dalek-laden) 2) that denouncing racism is some how a bad thing

On this day in 1960: Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls is published. Catholic Ireland has a shit fit, a ban follows soon after. A star is born.

What's the world coming to? You claim on Tiktok that the only mistake RTD made in Wish World/The Reality was failing to have Ncuti Gatwa 'white up' and no one cares. Either I'm right or I'm shadow banned for referring to America's brutal racist past and it's impact on the present.

deadline.com/2026/06/doct... The bravery of anonymous sources.

Who's the former writer who appears to have a problem with black and brown history? Did he write a beloved NA novel, some indifferent TV stories and then one of the worst stories of all time?

Torygraph having a normal one. Mind you, the Whoniverse was a shit name, a shitter concept, and the swooshing intro (that used to catch me out every time) was even more shit. Hubris.

Mass hate-wank fatalities reported across Britain and the United States. Thousands of reports emerging of dead single men found in their bedrooms, all with exploded scrotums and the words 'not my Doctor' or 'the writing was poor' scrawled in jizz on their Tom Baker duvet covers.

So we're back to the BBC want it but don't want to make it. I suppose axing it when Chibnell left would have vibed badly with the two anniversaries (100th and 60th) so RTD and the gang got the chance to fulfill the pledge they announced on one of the S4 commentaries. But you can never go back.

Your important reminder: listen to what's being said (or not said) rather than hearing what you want to hear.

Just as well I've given up watching Dr Who. Any (unlikely, as I've essentially retired from the form) podcast appearances will be based on memory (probably faulty), vibes, nostalgia, piss and vinegar.

So that big announcement went as well as some overly excitable people expected (I love and hate that I was right) And Robert Shearman was absolutely right #rtd #doctorwho

Happy Publication of 1984 Day to all who celebrate. And if you're one of those weird people who don't like Orwell and 1984 - fuck you. It's the 3rd, 4th or 5th best dystopia of the 20th century.

Today I have been shit-talking Tomb of the Cybermen (Shit-posting, more than talking)

www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/06/... But couldn't we all just go to reddit?

Simple Tales for Simple Folk by the Brothers Grim. Like their 19th century anti-Semitic German namesakes (beloved by the Nazis), our own Grim Brothers sell fairy tales to the folk (volk) about the threat posed by outgroups who need to be expelled from the domain of the folk and their tellers

vm.tiktok.com/ZNR7VJexR/ Techno Poirot

Never mind who's going to be the next Dr Who, surely the big BBC casting decision is who will be the new Poirot.

Amazing that some of the sci-fi/fantasy/genre sites have interpreted RTD's very careful statement on Radio 2 about an announcement in the next couple of weeks as been a definite announcement about who's been cast as Dr Who. It's more likely to be the announcement that RTD is leaving.

Recent Tikytok video on Ashad - very big in Belarus. I can't think why a Putin-surrogate state is drawn to a murderous ideologue attempting to impose its will on everyone around them.

vm.tiktok.com/ZNRWKGMjf/ Oh Ashad, how I love/hate you, you psychotic, child slaughtering, overly emotional, half-faced lunatic. New Who's best Cyberman (Converted Bill is too upsetting to watch)

That Cultbox story, from the horse's mouth on James O'Brien's podcast, does nothing to correct the story from earlier in the week. So that's probably that? cultbox.co.uk/news/russell...

Batman Returns: a family (and Christmas) film so fucked up it makes Ghostbusters' PG rating seem sane.

Just seen some bollox on Tikytok - and obviously went to see the full thing on YouTube - revelling in the Dr Who news/non-news. Having been away from fandom for months, I'd forgotten the frottage at the demise of the show they purport to love. Temulent with their own 'common sense' anti-wokeness,

vm.tiktok.com/ZNRWFvweo/ In which TV's Eric Roberts is elevated to joint top third Master. Because he is.