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RAJAR Q3 2026
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Sky News
Sky News have relaunched today, and I believe it’s true that their “news wall” is now so big that it can be seen from space.
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Dione
I know that The Guardian published this picture of Dione in their double-page spread on Thursday, but it’s still worth a look. It’s spectacular. And this video from the flyby is also worth a 10MB download. Just wait until Cassini flys past Dione.
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Hotel World
I read this because it was slim, and came for just 99p with a copy of the Telegraph in WH Smiths this week. I knew next to nothing about the book, and having it read it now, I’m not entirely sure that I know a great deal more now. The book is presented from the…
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Fleshmarket Close
My second Ian Rankin Rebus novel, and unlike the first, I liked this a lot more. A the theme of the novel is race, and we get everything from overt racism in our inner cities to Morecambe Bay-style cockel pickers. There are several stories going on simultaneously, that may, or may not be interlinked. A…
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Twitchers
I don’t know why, but it annoys me when generic bird-watchers are described as twitchers. Twitchers are that special breed of bird enthusiast who chases around the country looking for exceptionally rare speicies of birds. They’re a relatively rare breed themselves. Anyway, this is all just an excuse for me noting that there are an…
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Newsnight/Gattaca
Someone in a Newsnight editing booth has obviously been to see Michael Nyman recently because Susan Watts’ piece on nanotechnology this evening was packed full of Gatacca music. Fantastic.
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Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit
As a long time fan of Wallace and Gromit, it was only a matter of time before I had to drag myself along to the cinema to see this. One of the key reasons for not going immediately was the prospect of being in a cinema packed to the rafters with kids. I’ve got no…
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Dogfight Over Norfolk
Out in the distant parts of Norfolk, you often see fighter planes out on manouevres flying low over the landscape and off over the North Sea. But today I saw something I’d never seen before: a pair of fighters, possibly F16s from Mildenhall, but they could have been Tornados, in a mock dogfight over the…
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The Ringer
The Farrelly brothers certainly have managed to offend various people over the years with their brand of humour. This is taken to the extreme in the forthcoming The Ringer, which they’ve executive produced. Essentially they’ve gone out on a limb to try to make it as hard possible to like a film – at least…
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The Man Who Smiled
The latest Henning Mankell novel’s recently been published, but it’s not actually his latest book. It just happens to be one that’s out of sequence. Actually, we’ve had loads of Mankell novels out of sequence, but this one jumps back quite a few years and characters who were last known to be dead are suddenly…
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Ducktastic
So where do we begin with Ducktastic? It’s a new play written by the guys who wrote The Play What I Wrote about Morecombe and Wise. It revolves around someone who was previously “the biggest breakfast time magician on the Vegas strip” and who performs magic with a duck flavour (not in the Chinese “duck”…
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Beethoven Downloads
This article (free subs. reqd.) about the BBC’s Beethoven downloads really annoys me. Not the article itself, but the words and thoughts of John Whittingdale of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee. It seems that the record companies are still annoyed that the BBC actually gave away some music free. These were recordings of…
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