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3 months

Reasons to be cheerful: have just bought some milk that will outlive the Tory government.

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These are the buttons from my wife's granddad's WW2 RAF uniform. When you put them together, they make a mini-compass, for use if you get shot down behind enemy lines (which he did). It's the most Q-Branch thing I've ever seen.

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You okay, babe? You've barely scanned your King Charles cancer QR code.

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2 years

Grandchildren of Britain: if the elderly Tory party member in your family requests some IT help this week, please tell them you're busy.

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Love this Pet Shop Boys story about George Michael at the 2012 Olympic closing ceremony, from @petepaphides ' fantastic @RecCollMag interview.

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3 months

That UNIT staff list in full: H Arbinger E Vil Sue Pervillain V Bad Mal Evolent Watt Abastard O Mygodwereallgoingtodie #DoctorWho

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2 years

As of last Sunday, Jodie Whittaker is the longest-serving incumbent Doctor Who of the modern era, beating David Tennant's tally of 1,658 days, fact fans. I'm telling you this because my wife wasn't really interested.

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2 years

No, seriously, it's amazing. Absolute SCENES.

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2 years

Sorry, might have to buy the Mail today, just for LOLs. Will plant a tree or something.

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As a working class boy I still remember my shock at being forced to use the bourgeois, middle-class theatre toilets instead of just pissing all over the seats and stage like we would at home.

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Iconic 70s teatime telly fave gets terrifying upgrade. #DoctorWho

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10 months

Love this Jemma Redgrave / Matt Smith story 🙂 #DoctorWho60

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5 months

"Why me?" is Julia Davis' exact response in Nighty Nighty when she learns her husband has cancer. The joke is she's a sociopath.

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Also, 🔥Liz Truss’s autobiography extracts have just dropped … and it’s clear it’s going to be an absolute banger In this tiny extract the Queen dies - and Truss is moved to ask “Why me?”

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"They came out of the sea and walked straight to the benefits office..."

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2 years

2.7m very confused teenagers currently googling "Sylvester McCoy". You love to see it.

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2 years

For those kindly asking, this is his story:

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5 years

12-yr-old me with the great #JonPertwee - born 100 years ago today - at Strike's Garden Centre, Leeds, 1984. I gave him a picture I'd copied from the Target book of Day of the Daleks. He said, "Who the flippin' eck is Do'ter Oo?" Then insisted we have our pic taken together 🙂

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Legends ❤

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7 years

From @TheSun , the paper that's spent decades campaigning against "red tape" and "elf and safety gone mad". #tomorrowspaperstoday

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THE SUN: They were told it was safe #tomorrowspaperstoday

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4 years

I haven't felt this good since Kim Jong-il was replaced by Kim Jong-un.

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5 years

I wrote a thing about the long history of #DoctorWho fans not liking Doctor Who very much.

The diehards of doom! Why Doctor Who is the show fans love to hate

For 56 years and counting, Whovians have been railing against the wheres, whys and, well, everything about their beloved series. Will anything quell this rage?

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4 years

Didn't have space for this in my interview (also: bit niche) but here's Russell T Davies' vision of an MCU-style future for #DoctorWho , complete with David Tennant/Matt Smith team-up and – the petition starts here, folks – The Nyssa Adventures.

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4 years

A few snippets from my interview with Greatest Living Welshman Russell T Davies, talking ahead of his new drama It’s A Sin, which might just be the best work he’s ever done. The full interview is online here or pick up a copy in-store. #WaitroseWeekend

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3 years

@Baddiel If you forget your Zionism kit you have to do it in your pants.

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2 years

Well #ThePowerOfTheDoctor was certainly a hit with this audience. Huge reaction in the room. Big silly grins all round 🙂 #DoctorWho

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2 years

M. Khan is bent.

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The year is 2045. The first astronauts have landed on Mars. They find a cave with a human skeleton. And 4 words are written on the wall. What are the four words

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4 years

@ianbrown This is a low point, mate, and I say that as someone who was at Reading '96.

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5 years

A Christmas Carol, Gavin and Stacey, Worzel Gummidge, Doctor Who, Dracula... the BBC has had a very good Christmas, exactly when it needed one. No other broadcaster even bothered showing up.

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@hugorifkind I'd sell it on this.

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3 years

This is what a bonfire of red tape looks like.

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10 months

History will now be divided into before this photo and after this photo. Incredible work, @RadioTimes

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4 years

@JNRaeside Jeffrey Archer called me "a pathetic worm". But then gave me a lift to the Tube station, and said "We must work together again."

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My god they're all at it.

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5 years

Any #DoctorWho fans wondering why #TheCure have BAD WOLF emblazoned on their stage kit should also check out bassist Simon Gallup's guitar collection... #Glastonbury

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4 years

This is what Doctor Who weirdos see instead of the Virgin Mary.

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5 years

The most maddeningly inconsistent era of #DoctorWho - you know, where it's completely brilliant one week and a bit rubbish the next - is the 1963-2020 era. 🤷‍♂️

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3 years

My wife once told me that "one of The Proclaimers looks more like The Proclaimers than the other one". Still makes my head hurt. #TOTP

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7 years

Bravo Jessica Raine in @RadioTimes . Actors who don't watch TV shouldn't be allowed on it. That's my rule.

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2 years

"He's really funny, he'll be really good" - my son's snap verdict 😎 (Yes, I've reached the age where my kids have to explain to me who the new Dr Who is. Which feels right, doesn't it?)

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The future is here! Ncuti Gatwa is the Doctor. ❤️❤️➕🟦 #DoctorWho Read more here ➡️

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Peter Davison in 1969. Yes, really. #DoctorWho

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4 months

Breaking the Pertwee's burgers story, more than a year ago 👀🍔

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What's something in the world you know you're directly responsible for but if you were to claim credit you'd sound crazy?

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3 years

Cancel all your other Doctor Who discourse, I have written an IMPORTANT article about the Doctor's hair.

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The Mane of the Doctor: What #DoctorWho haircuts can tell us about the show (no, really)

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9 months

For Sid 🌠

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5 years

Every time I read this sort of thing, I like to imagine the not my doctor lot's little faces when they realise their tantrums haven't reached the grown-up world. At all.

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4 years

@fred_guttenberg @newtgingrich @mtgreenee So sorry you have to deal with this level of evil, Fred 💔

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10 months

I see my "Were Davros' eyes a radical reinvention too far for fans?" discourse in the new DWM 60 Moments in Time special has aged well 👀

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6 years

This old #DoctorWho Bulletin readers' poll shows that, even in 1987, some people were determined to blame Steven Moffat for everything 🙄

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5 years

One of the great things about that #DoctorWho finale is that, strip away all the (thrilling) mythology stuff, and it still worked as an exciting space adventure for kids. My 8-yo son was literally repeating "please don't let her die, please don't let her die" out loud.

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3 years

Wrote a thing for @RadioTimes about why #DoctorWho should absolutely lean into a nostalgia hit for its 60th anniversary - and why fans should just relax and let themselves enjoy it 🙂

Why Doctor Who should embrace nostalgia for its 60th anniversary

As rumours of former Time Lords returning continue to mount, why are some Doctor Who fans still so wary of the show’s past?

www.radiotimes.com

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@PippaMusgrave1 @lucyportercomic I believe Jon Pertwee also worked on a similar line while working in wartime intelligence - with Ian Fleming!

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@idmoly We used to fling our own shit at the screen, because we were working class.

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3 years

Remembering Matt Hancock's finest Thick of It moment.

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Interviewing this man was a real pinch-me moment. He was graceful, funny and charming - and, afterwards, when I asked the way to Highgate Cemetery, he said he'd take me there. Walking the streets of London with Ray Davies! I felt like a royal courtier. Happy 80th, guv'nor.

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1 year

Tell you who's dropped right off the cultural radar: Tarzan. He was as big as Batman and Superman when I was a kid. Now? Nada.

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This is Dr Who at his most Dr Whoest. #PyramidsOfMars

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7 years

Gordon Brown unexpectedly hot. Tony Blair unexpectedly Geri Halliwell.

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2 years

So... I went to the pub with Matt Smith for Rolling Stone - I know! - and if I thought I couldn't love him more, I was wrong 😎

Matt Smith: from Time Lord to Targaryen prince - Rolling Stone UK

Matt Smith is one of Britain’s most in-demand actors. He talks his new role as Daemon in ‘House of the Dragon’ and the legacy of Doctor Who.

www.rollingstone.co.uk

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4 years

March 2020 March 2021

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5 years

Had a really lovely chat with the fab Eve Myles for this week's Waitrose Weekend mag. And this picture is just 😍 #KeepingFaith #Torchwood #DoctorWho

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3 years

We've had 57 years of Dr Who going somewhere, fixing something, leaving again. I sort of feel like I never need to see that story ever again. So am totally here for Chris Chibnall's freeform jazz approach. #DoctorWho

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2 months

Just had our annual arsing about Doctor Who locations weekend. Behold our incredible, screen realistic recreations. 🧵

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4 years

Just read a really long article about how miserable Boris Johnson is and I have to say it's cheered me right up.

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2 years

@petepaphides @Baddiel So Elon Musk then.

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@jessbowie ... on a story where there is literally no more information forthcoming.

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@DevinHS13 Jodie was great, Ncuti will be great, having David and Catherine back for a bit is great. Life really can be that simple.

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@bobscartoons Still not as embarrassing as wearing a T-shirt with 'I work for the Daily Telegraph' written on it.

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Amid tough competition, Piers Corbyn somehow manages to be both Britain's worst Piers and its worst Corbyn. #COVIDIOTS

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2 years

@Steven_Swinford Jacob Rees-Mogg added to Anti-Growth Coalition list.

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1 year

Words and phrases only ever used by Doctor Who fans (of a certain age): Crotchety. Capacious. Frock coat. Production values. Roundel. Roadster. Windjammer. Chaplinesque. The Duchess of Duke Street. Cosmic hobo. Curate's egg. Multi-camera. Pseudo-historical. Any more?

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3 years

Totally normal family holiday making my kids pretend to be Tegan and Turlough. #DoctorWho

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2 years

What a joy and a privilege to interview Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill and John Bishop for @DWMtweets , as they reach the end of their Doctor Who journeys. They have so much love for the show, and for each other. (And yes, two actual hearts... that's some method acting... 🙂) ❤️❤️

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How it started How it's going #DoctorWhoFlux

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Tin hats on, I've covered the 1980s for the excellent new DWM special, The World of Doctor Who. And for anyone who thinks "toxic fandom" was invented with Twitter... oh boy. #DoctorWho

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#BAFTAs were way more fun when they did film and telly together, and you'd get Eddie Murphy applauding win for John Craven's Newsround.

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Made it on to Blue Peter! (And yes, I got a badge 🙂) #DoctorWho

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Dempsey & Makepeace still being an item is the real stability and continuity this country should be celebrating.

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Okay, they were 26 episodes out but it's still nice to see #CallTheMidwife granting @DWMtweets ' wishes. #DoctorWho

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@randomstuffxzxz Don't forget this monster.

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All you need to know, really.

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2 years

On what would have been the great Douglas Adams' 70th birthday, here's a little glimpse at his earliest known Doctor Who idea – written for Jon Pertwee's Doctor in 1972.

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I was supposed to interview Billy Ocean, but he's had to cancel. Which just goes to show that, when the going gets tough... the tough sensibly follow government health advice, with none of your Ant Middleton macho bullshit.

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Colin Baker has been a hero of mine since I was 12. He was the first person off the telly I ever interviewed, when he graciously spared teenage me an hour of his time for my teeny-tiny photocopied fanzine. So a thrill to have interviewed him for this month's DWM, along with...

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Colin Baker, Bonnie Langford and Russell T Davies reveal a new adventure for the Sixth Doctor! DWM 574 includes an exclusive preview of Mind of the Hodiac. Plus an interview with Doctor Who’s outgoing executive producer Matt Strevens and much more. On sale now!

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@quantick PITCH: Ashes to Ashes reboot in which you travel back to the 1980s to inform your NME colleagues that, in the future, Phil Collins is cooler than Morrissey.

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@SoVeryBritish

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Sorry, might have to buy the Mail today, just for LOLs. Will plant a tree or something.

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@PippaMusgrave1 @lucyportercomic Yes - this is how Pertwee told it (though he was very fond of a tall tale... 🙂)

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I often think of the many hours me and my dad spent trawling around Leeds branch libraries, him looking for books on Watergate and motor racing, me searching out the seemingly inexhaustible supply of #TerranceDicks Target novels. Thanks Dad, thanks Uncle Terrance.

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Mentioning no clickbait by name, I still struggle with this "Comic-Con-isation" of Doctor Who. Back in the day, DW was the *alternative* to all that stuff - for the weird kids who preferred Quatermass and Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) to Captain America. I'm just old, I guess.

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@richardosman What about Harry? I reckon he's had his head turned by that Greggs staff bonus.

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@markommj And if our mams caught us getting ideas above our station by [checks notes] nodding our heads, there'd be hell to pay.

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JW this, which I remembered as a mid-tier Christmas ep. Turns out it's bloody AMAZING. #TheMemoryCheats

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2 years

It's true that everything comes back into fashion eventually. The clamour on here for "ooh" Gary Davies to replace Ken Bruce is effectively an admission that Smashie and Nicey died in vain.

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Twitter.

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4 years

A few snippets from my interview with Greatest Living Welshman Russell T Davies, talking ahead of his new drama It’s A Sin, which might just be the best work he’s ever done. The full interview is online here or pick up a copy in-store. #WaitroseWeekend

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"I++AM++NOT++NICK" 🤔😉 #DoctorWho

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Hang on, is it a coincidence that the official Conservative homepage is basically quoting the Jim'll Fix It theme? 😶

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Thanks to @benjamin_cook , I had the privilege of being in the room for these scenes. Was impossible not to think of William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton at Riverside Studios in 1966, and all those iconic handovers since. TV history, happening in front of your eyes ❤️ #DoctorWho

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Enid Blyton didn't fuck about when it came to chapter titles.

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1 year

Happy Mondas.

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Name the band

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