... So They Gave Their Bodies , a fitting tribute to those who died for the sake of our present - the people who we rightly remember on this day. Except it's not that simple. Because ...

blog entry - James Lark - 2009-11-08 12:27 - 3 comments - 0 attachments

... already encountered him, is a bigoted fundamentalist who expresses his so-called Christianity by threatening to picket cancer wards, ... concept - whereas Green claims to represent Jesus Christ, who didn't die so that unpleasant men could dance on tragically young dead ...

blog entry - James Lark - 2009-10-20 16:01 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

... pales in comparison to the ridiculousness of the people who read it. The comments about the sacking of Professor Nutt are enough to ... horse riding accident. I'll skip over the GP (sorry, "gp") who doesn't use capital letters or full stops, and only briefly stop to take in ...

blog entry - James Lark - 2009-11-02 20:49 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... unsure of what I wanted to do or even in some ways who I wanted to be. Ian was the Dean of Chapel at Selwyn College, the friend of ...

blog entry - James Lark - 2009-09-30 16:39 - 3 comments - 1 attachment

... a fan, Mr Colfer! A rather frightening geeky fan too, who contrives to get the number 42 into as many conversations as possible and ... genuinely special. The estates that allow this to happen, who no doubt also take a significant cut of the ill-gotten gains, ought to be ...

blog entry - James Lark - 2009-10-11 15:06 - 3 comments - 0 attachments

Who says you can't tell a story in two minutes?: Pandore . ( Via Tim ...

blog entry - James Aylett - 2009-09-13 13:05 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... concluded that you're a hugely overrated, talentless hack who shouldn't ever be trusted with a narrative structure again, and having long ... as the T Davies-scripted finale to last year's season of Doctor Who . But for now, I'm going on record as saying that parts one and two ...

blog entry - James Lark - 2009-07-08 15:06 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Later today we will know who is taking over from David Tennant as the Doctor, but in the meantime bookmakers and journalists are enjoying all sorts ... he's going to turn out not to be the Doctor. Russell Tovey Who?: the least appealing character in The History Boys ...

blog entry - James Lark - 2009-01-03 12:19 - 0 comments - 5 attachments

... mention Heather Brooke , the investigative journalist who did much of the work (and repeated FOI requests, and being prepared to take ... carry on reading the Guardian - ideally suited to people who have a tin ear for journalistic irony. And yep, of course, I will do my ...

blog entry - James Lark - 2009-08-24 10:54 - 3 comments - 0 attachments

... stint on Radio 2 this morning - Tate is to return to Doctor Who in one of the specials this year. You know I'd only be blogging this ...

blog entry - James Lark - 2009-04-11 16:49 - 2 comments - 0 attachments