There’s lots of hand-wringing going on about last week’s student protests and the policing that went with it. Well, I say hand-wringing, but most of the press seem to have cast the students as the bad guys and not care too much that plenty of kids of 16 and younger were incarcerated for hours in [...]

As a kid I loved John Christopher’s Tripods trilogy. I was turned onto them by the TV series, and remember getting all three books from our local library and reading them in the week between the penultimate and final episodes of the first season. Whatever year this was it was when Prince William was born, [...]

Merlin’s been renewed for a new series. Hooray! I love Merlin. Here’s my Merlin drinking game: “We can’t tell Uther” – one shot Morgana evil smile that nobody else sees – one shot Arthur alludes to Merlin being useless – one shot Gaius says “We can’t tell Uther” – two shots Morgana sneaks off at [...]