THE SKINNER

This is amusing and of course the 'offensive' word is once again rolled out to try and shut people up. Seems the world is full of p...

My thanks to Phil Edwards at Live For Films for pointing this out to me. It's the Playmobil Security Checkpoint sold on Amazon . Read...

Very nice review of The Gabble over here and Greenman Review : Best story? I really can't say, for much the same reason that I can'...

Over the last two days we sat and watched a film in two parts called Flood, starring amongst others Robert Carlyle and David Suchet. The fir...

Just before reading through this I wondered if my opinion might have changed any, finishing the article, I found it hadn't. We're ...

--> Television adverts are irritating at the best of times, but are now becoming doubly irritating as advertisers adopt government ...

Shall I compare thee to a block of granite? Film viewing on Tuesdays being discounted at the cinema in Freeport Braintree, me and the wife...

--> It’s nice to know that good old prudence Brown, whilst calling for us all to summon up the ‘Blitz Spirit’ to get us through the cr...

Well, there's a video interview with me up on the Sci-Fi-London site now, which will later be added to the list of interview on their ...

Here’s a few facts for you if you’re worried about how much you drank over Christmas. Remember, the health Nazi claim of 21 units for a man...

Having opted out of Sky because we’re not here enough for it to be value for money, we’ve been spending money saved on DVDs. Last night we s...

Just a little I wish Scalzi would give us alien aliens rather than something I feel certain could be created with an application of latex, ...

Ah, I made a large error in my previous post about Spooks Series 6 in that I thought I’d reached the end at eight episodes. Perhaps that w...

After putting down Black Man I picked up John Scalzi's Last Colony, already with the foreknowledge that I'll polish the book of in a...

--> A little while ago I put up a little poster made (I believe) by the blogger Guido Fawkes , which drew numerous comparisons betwee...

Enjoyable stuff , but perhaps far too heavy on the polemics for some. A couple of times I felt the urge to skip bits, especially some of th...

A website here blowing all those ASH and government (same organisation really) anti-smoking ‘facts’ out of the water. Here’s an interesti...

--> Whilst watching a programme about the Royal Airforce the other night, Caroline and I were having a chat about the history we were...

Ah well, I've just done a video interview for Robert Grant of Sci-Fi-London . He'll (hopefully) be editing out my ums and ers to put...