With the 11th Doctor Matt Smith's replacement looking increasingly likely to be another white bloke it feels like a slight letdown after wild speculation about Helen Mirren and Miranda Hart.

It was always unlikely to be anyone of that high a profile, whether male or female, but...

If two of a nation's biggest cultural icons are face-changing aliens it should be considered more than a coincidence. Born in the public imagination within six years of each other David Bowie and Doctor Who have taken strangely similar journeys.

From black and white into campy Technicolor, these most British...

"MISSING: White male, over 900 years old, goes by the name of the Doctor, appearance variable, please contact if seen."

That is how the posters should read when Doctor Who hits its 50th anniversary this November.

Admittedly it is the not the character who is missing, he is rarely in...

In terms of predicting the end of the world humans have a perfect record of failure. I enjoy these arbitrary milestones passing and so by the time you read this I will have kicked back with a few beers and watched a disaster film to enjoy the end of the...

Does size matter? When it comes to the ability to beat your enemy to death with a games console then yes. An Xbox thrown from a height could kill a man, whilst the GameCube with its convenient handle was always more of a close combat weapon.

In terms of the...

What's your favourite home remedy? I know some people swear by chicken soup, others a hot water bottle, when I'm ill I prefer copious amounts of tea and a DVD.

My preferred film of choice has always been of the animated variety, preferably Pixar, something I don't have to think...

"Who's more foolish the fool or the fool who follows him?" - Obi Wan Kenobi, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Whilst standing on rain soaked streets campaigning against the re-election of Tory Mayor Boris Johnson I've had a range of responses. Mostly, this being politics and in London,...

If Twitter trends are an insight into the mind of its users then I fear that we are a mass of witless, sexist, racist, sycophantic celebrity stalkers who do nothing but watch reality TV and third rate children's films.

Recently trends like #camdinewithme and #creepingsharia have restored my faith...

Four years of Boris Johnson's mayoralty has seriously affected my mental health. He has now become the centre of my paranoid fantasies, I see his malevolent presence wherever I go in London.

I believe him to be the man who stands on the wrong side of the escalator, the man...

During the international cock waggling competition between Britain and Argentina, the unfortunate Falkland islanders have sat quietly in the middle being ignored.

It's these 3,000 people whose fate is being decided by the finer points of international law and diplomacy and yet they only appear as the faceless child...

Normally I wouldn't recommend Britain invading any nation, let alone one with nuclear weapons and a population of heavily armed Fox News viewers.

This drastic course of action is not for the sake of freeing a people from the tyranny of nihilistic capitalism, but in order to save Britain...

When I need time and space to think I like to go to church. Not because I have a deep held religious belief, it's just the only place I can guarantee will always be empty.

That was a cheap shot, but then I read that David Cameron has been claiming,...