Making my Guardian First Edition debut
Those of you who regularly do my increasingly silly Thursday news quiz will have noticed that today, rather than appearing at 11am as is traditional, the 222nd edition emerged blinking in the dark horror of 6.30am. Why, you ask? Well,…
Article about the return of Doctor Who in 2026
I mentioned yesterday that I had been in the paper wittering on about the return of Doctor Who and what it might mean for the future of the show. There is now an online version of the story to go…
The Guardian Thursday news quiz is back!
Good news, everyone! After an unexpected hiatus due to me going slightly loopy over the summer, the Guardian Thursday news quiz is back! As I said on Facebook, “A huge news week deserves the return of a huge news quiz….
What happened to the Guardian Thursday quiz?
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had lots of lovely messages from people all asking what boils down to one question – “What happened to the Guardian Thursday quiz?” Regular readers will know that I write a Thursday quiz for…
Eurovision o’clock!
It is that time of the year when I turn into a one man walking Eurovision content machine. In the last couple of days I have supplied for the Guardian my annual Eurovision quiz, and also put on my “Negative…
Defending animals unfairly maligned in movies …
If you missed it, yesterday I had a very silly article on the Guardian website in tow of news that Exeter University is offering a film studies module looking at how donkeys have been besmirched by the way they are…
The Thursday quiz is back, baby!
This week – after a strike-induced hiatus – the Guardian Thursday quiz is back. And you get to see my dog Willow in a Christmas jumper, a lovely guest dog called Otis, lots of other cute animals, and there is…
How much internet ‘brain rot’ have I got to be able to write this quiz?
A little bit of bonus quiz action for a Monday. “Brain rot” has been announced as the Oxford word of the year, covering “overconsumption of material considered to be trivial or unchallenging” especially through endless scrolling online, or reading the…
Do my Guardian quiz about the Cure!
Clearly one of the best British bands of the last one hundred years, on Friday the Cure are releasing their first new album for 16 years. Regular readers will know that I do the Guardian’s Thursday quiz, but today as…
I put all the Doctor Who actors into the correct order for you
So I’ve contributed for the first time to the Guardian’s “ – Ranked!” series with a subject dear to my heart. “Every Doctor Who episode – ranked!” was a step too far, as was “Every Doctor Who companion – ranked!”,…