One of the racist canards used by the far right here is that asylum seekers come from countries where violence against women is part of “their culture”. But in the UK 2 women a week are murdered by men yet no one suggests that’s an inherent part British culture? Why not?

With the caveat that I would be happy regardless which missing episode(s?) it turns out to be I think my excitement level would fall as follows Faceless Ones Highlanders Evil of the Daleks Power of the Daleks Mission to the Unknown / Dalek Master Plan Marco Polo Macra Terror Fury from the Deep

This looks right up my street

Halloween Night - Trying to decide between The Substance at Cultplex, The Omen at Home Manchester (not at home though I do ironically own it on DVD) or 1922 Nosferatu at Stoller Hall with live orchestra.

37 years ago today I became a Doctor Who fan

In the weeks running up to Halloween I’ll be reposting the brief horror movie reviews I started writing since 2022. I’m not massively into horror but being married to an American who loves Halloween late September and October each year we watch spooky movies. I prefer suspenseful creepy to bloody

How did I not know there’d been a docu-drama about Delia Derbyshire starring Caroline Catz?

Doctor Who fan generation divide test.

Imagine if the missing episode is actually the Peter Cushing movie version of The Keys of Marinus from a parallel universe? Bet you weren’t expecting that!

Way back in an old issue of TTZ I wrote a comic strip, which Leslie illustrated, called Raiders of the Lost Archive where a group of commando fan break into a film archive in Mongolia and recover a missing Doctor Who episode…. Only to be massively disappointed that it was episode 3 of The Savages

I love when a classic Doctor Who reaction channel reaches Remembrance of the Daleks because it’s my favourite story and my own first story. But it’s also a little sad cuz you know they’re getting to the end.

Every Friday our team meeting ends at with weekend plans. I always say I’m doing nothing. Cuz my plan is always stay in bed as long as polite society, my wife’s patience and my bladder will allow me to.

Thing is I want to be wrong about climate change because the worst that happens then is I look a bit silly. But if climate change is right then the worst that happens is everyone, including the deniers dies in large numbers, and those that don’t live short miserable lives in the ruins.

Email comes in from a colleague called Sarah Harding Me (constantly thinking about Jurassic Park) - “How many Sarah Hardings work for this company?”

George Galloway is an odious individual who I cannot stand so this is by no means a defence of him…. But I’m curious as to why none of the media reports refer to the airport police as heavily armed as they did in their reporting of Graham Linehan?

How much dye could Danny Dyer dye if Danny Dyer could dye dye?

Watching an episode of The Bill from 1997. In an OBBO in a city bar two drinks cost DC Carver £7.50 which is meant to be a sign of how expensive the place is but which sounds readable in 2025 🤣

People seriously believing that there’s Shania law in Britain? That don’t impress me much.

Mel going off with Glitz is baffling but if behind the scenes they’d gone with Ray instead of Ace, Mel going off with Burton would have been even more odd

Did you hear about the jurisprudence fetishist? He got off on a technicality.

Trump doesn’t object to Sadiq Khan because he disagrees with his policies, he objects to his skin colour and religion (a faith Khan has never used to guide his policy the way evangelicals do ). The silence from our own Prime Minister in not condemning Trump’s Islamaphobic attack is a disgrace

People asked me about vaccinating when I was pregnant with phrasing like, "what if vaccines DO cause autism though" and I was like, then I'll have an autistic kid who didn't die of whooping cough????

#NowWatching The Magnificent Seven (the 1960 version) for the first time

On this day in 2018, day 2 of my stag do included an Edinburgh pub crawl with an inflatable Dalek that we named Beryl

I like to theme my holiday reads. I’ve got 10 days coming up in Italy (Rome/Florence/Milan) so will happily take recommendations for Italian themed reads. I prefer non-fiction but will take both

We were at Cultplex to see Strange Days, a very interesting cyberpunk near future nineties movies where other people’s memories and sensations are traded on the black market.

It’s one of those torrential rain days in Manchester where my umbrella was irrelevant, I was still soaked through from my jacket to my hoodie to my t-shirt and not to be too saucy but once I finally got home my pants and socks came off too. Lovely. Time for a hot chocolate

Nah, Goronwy is definitely a Time Lord - one of the beehives is actually his TARDIS ;) he won't need it

The closest I can come would be "imagine if DOCTOR WHO told a story inspired by GLEE, but written by the same people who revived BATTLESTAR GALACTICA in 2005". No, it doesn't quite do it justice. Why do you ask?

Even by Doctor Who standards, imagine trying to explain Delta and the Bannermen

Is anyone gonna compensate Goronwy for the damage to his cottage?

The upcoming changes at Cultplex as they take over the whole former Grub building from October sounds very intriguing. Looking forward to seeing it and looking forward to their Halloween season

It’s 100 days till Christmas. That means it’s time to read “A Cup of Hot Chocolate and They All Lived Happily Ever After: The Intangible Cultural Heritage of Christmas Format Films on TV” by my lovely wife Leslie McMurtry www.routledge.com/Intangible-C...

So as October approaches and it’s the one time of year I watch horror movies with my Halloween loving wife, I’m asking for recommendations. I tend to prefer spooky and thought provoking rather then gore and violence. I’ll put the ones I enjoyed last year in the next comment to help give my vibe. Ta!

#NowWatching Passport to Pimlico

Autocorrect tried to add “and fauna” after I put Flora on my shopping list 😂

Unclear if he’s been spoilered or not but now watching #DoctorWho The Reality War with my Dad for (his) first time

Four thousand boat people arrived in Manchester seeing refuge The year was 1940. The boats brought children evacuated from Guernsey, days before Nazi forces overran the island. The people who today scream at hotels are Nazis. The people inside the hotels have a lot in common with our grandparents

Did you think Rod Hull ever just popped Emu on to get a pie out the oven?

I went to a Star Trek convention and there was just lines and lines of cosplayers. I'd never seen so many Qs

My cousins went off a full minute before mine, my Mum’s, my cousins and my BIL. My sister had turned hers off in advance. My Dad didn’t get it so bad luck, see you in the next life. 😂

DS9 Theory time - In the episode Our Man Bashir I speculate that in fact the Cardassian separatist group The True Way wasn’t behind the destruction of the Runabout Orinoco, it was sabotaged by Eddington. 🧵

Ohhh Cultplex Halloween line up looks great

Trans rights are human rights. Aren’t YOU human? So why aren’t you fighting for your rights?

Story time. When World War II broke out, approximate three million British children became temporary refugees in their own country. 🧵

I will never not find Mudchute a hilarious name for a light railway station

It’s sickening that as a society we’ve backslid so much that this even needs saying but on the 86th anniversary of World War Two here’s your reminder that the fascists are the bad guys.

Story time. In July 2021 large swathes of London were flooded when unprecedented heavy rain fall coincided with high tide, overwhelming the sewage discharge system. Yeah it happens in countries like ours and climate change is only going to make it worse.

In the comment sections in social media take a moment to replace the word or phrases “Illegals”, “Boat people”, “Illegal migrants”, “Immigrants”, “The usual suspects” with the word “Jew”. The comment sections of the UK in 2025 looks like Germany in 1933.

Watch how quickly Faragists will pivot from giving money to the Taliban to execute dissidents to not giving money to the Taliban to provide aid after a massively devastating earthquake