Having got up at stupid o'clock, a time normally reserved for polling day*, on Friday to get to Belfast International for the 7am flight into Edinburgh. The reason of course as we know was the funeral of a dear friend, Andrew Reeves. Of course Andrew's footprint is all over Edinburgh if you know where to look. Touching down in Edinburgh Airport I immediately FourSquared my location. Of course all through the week those of us who use that Social Networking tool have often been touched by on our friend's list seeing "Andrew R. Last seen at Platinum Point", now being ...
Mark Cole attended Andrew Reeves's funeral in Edinburgh on Wednesday: "It was a desperately sad occasion but one which was made easier by the wonderful support that Andrew and in his absence his partner Roger, received from their extended Liberal Democrat family from across the country." "There are three key features to healthcare in this country at the moment. The first is that it is very expensive; the second is that the amount we are prepared to spend on it is limited; the third is that we are prepared to do very little about it." A Comfortable Place on the ...
Some of you may well have seen this video by actor Michael Spicer who pretends to be a single man looking for love on eHarmony. He does this introduction video and shows his emotion and love for the Lib Dems rather too much. Lib Dem ladies would a guy loving the party as much as this be a turn on for you? Please watch the video below Tweet
Welcome to Broxtowe Enews, brought to you by the Liberal Democrats and edited by David Watts, the leader of the Lib-Dem group on Broxtowe Borough Council. A special welcome to the new readers that we have this week. Can I start by apologising that there was no edition last week. It's rare that we don't produce one but I'm afraid that time just got the better of me. I'll try and cover all the important news for the past two weeks here. Today was the 10th Hemlock Happening, and everyone involved deserves to be congratulated as it has been another ...
I managed to conduct my group discussion for the project on Monday evening, as planned. It was an interesting experience and I think I've got some sensible data to analyse, even if I couldn't stop asking closed questions (which fortunately still received very open and long answers!) and asking a number of rather leading questions on a couple of occasions. I'd have never had made a lawyer, that's for sure. I managed to collect 49 minutes of discussion (we could have gone on for hours) and so far I've managed to get around 32 minutes transcribed in 7-ish hours of ...
The latest issue of the London Review of Books carries a review of a book by Conrad Russell, who died in 2004. King James VI and I and His English Parliaments is an expanded version of the Trevelyan Lectures Conrad gave at Cambridge in 1995, edited and brought to the press by Richard Cust and Andrew Thrush. Unfortunately, Colin Kidd's review is not one of those freely available on the LRB website. But I am a subscriber so I can give you a few extracts: "A chain-smoker in an ill-fitting suit, who carried his voluminous notes around in supermarket carrier ...
From the Unbound website: It's an astonishment, maybe even an outrage, that Jonathan Meades' writing and thinking about the hundreds of places he's visited have never been edited into a book before. Over the coming months you will watch it come together as he sifts through the scripts to sixty films, and the hundreds of pieces and he has written and delivered over the past twenty years. The plan is to produce a handsome volume (heavy on the handfeel) containing five full scripts of his most important TV films (illustrated with stills) and about forty pieces, including ten longer essays. ...
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During my day at the Royal Cornwall I visited the Cornwall Council pavilion which was being shared with a number of other public services, including the NHS. I got given a 'goodie' bag by the NHS people which is about as depressing as a goodie bag can be. The bag itself is a pretty positive brown paper bag encouraging people to take their litter home and recycle what they can. But once you get inside... - A leaflet on reducing your risk of getting bowel cancer - A leaflet on detecting skin cancer - A leaflet explaining how being overweight ...
More on Southport's survival in the Blue Sq Premier League Listen! Listen!
I went to the Royal Cornwall today (on a Saturday for the first time in ages) and had a great day - particularly because the weather was so good. But the day didn't end well for a number of reasons. Most tragically, there was a crash in the members' car park and, although there are differing reports, I am told there was a fatality. We heard, rather than saw, what happened and I ran to the scene to find passers-by helping an older driver to get out of his car. He appeared to have crashed into an unoccupied vehicle and ...
TweetThe well known feminist Harriet Harman MP, and Labour deputy leader, and once rather uncerimoniously described as 'A bleating, hectoring and finger wagging vote loser' by that bastion of liberalism, the Daily Mail, has been putting forward a plan enshrine in the Labour constitution, a regulation which would ensure that any future Labour Leader or deputy must be female. Despite her passionate view, I believe she is wrong. I am not one to doubt Harmans intentions, I am sure they are pure and reasonable with only a desire to see her female counterparts rise to a level of equality. I ...
I like any story that reminds me of my own undoubted ignorance. Had you previously heard of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed? I hadn't. I am genuinely ashamed to have forgotten - totally forgotten - last year's World Cup bombings in Uganda. Nor did I know much, if anything, about the UN Al Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee and its British head, Richard Barrett. As to what we do in Syria, I don't know. It is easy to identify problems, harder to identify solutions.
A couple of years ago I wrote about the revival of the Phipps NBC brewing company and illustrated it with a photograph of the long-closed Sun at Braybrooke. I went to Braybrooke today and found the Sun. According to an historical map of the village on display in its other pub The Swan (happily still open), the Sun closed in 1968. Here it is today as a private house, next to the Medieval bridge over the River Jordan.
To say I was disappointed with the election results is an understatement, I was gutted. While I am glad to remain a Malton Town Councillor, I was so very sad to see good Liberal Democrat Councillors loose our seats. With the majority of Tory Councillors on Ryedale District Council who have hardly spoken other than moving an item or seconding a vote. I applaud the work of engaged Councillors who work for the people but I question how effective a Councillor is who expresses no opinions and never speaks on matters and whose only contributions are presence and voting at ...
Greater Manchester Police Authority Chairman Cllr Paul Murphy and Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Peter Fahy will be answering questions on how your police are performing, how the cuts in public services are affecting law and order and the challenges facing us in the future. Come down to Stockport Town Hall on Wednesday 15th June, 6pm – 8pm – all welcome. Full details about this and other meetings on www.gmp.police.uk. If you have a local policing issue in Cheadle & Gatley, contact the Stockport West Neighbourhood Policing Team on 0161 856 9770 or stockport.westnpt@gmp.police.uk.
I remember very clearly Brian Souter's obviously homophobic "Keep the Clause" campaign back in 2000. It was one of a number of events that eventually served to define me politically and develop my social conscience. His "referendum" and intolerance-fuelled struggle to retain Section 2a (regrettably supported by such social luminaries as the Daily Record) made a huge impression on me. It was when I realised that institutional homophobia not only existed, but that in its rampant forms had the potential to divide our nation and destroy its social fabric. I also was shocked by how easily Souter and his pseudo-Christian ...
It's been an emotional rollercoaster couple of days. When Jon Aylwin notified me on Tuesday that Andrew Reeves' funeral was to be on Friday, something in me said that I should go. As I stated in my blog after his shock, sudden death, it wasn't that I knew him that well but that I knew him well enough and respected him to feel it only right to make the journey to Edinburgh to show my support to the community of friends and family who have been left utterly devastated at his untimely early passing. So within the space of 48 ...
As readers know I was very keen to establish a workers' coop to take over the nursery business at Botanic Gardens. It had become clear that this activity had been allow to drift into an unsustainable economic position and that significant restructuring was required. I thought that the skills of the staff and the respect that they had in the community was an excellent basis to set up a business that would be self sufficient selling high quality products to the public as well as to the council. Sadly the employees could not be persuaded to take over the enterprise. ...
Some of my friends, with whom I have been debating the rationale for the coalition have referred to the NHS as the elephant in the room. I think it is that, but not in the sense they mean. What they mean is, I think, this: - both parties had policies for the NHS in their manifestos. The LibDem manifesto contained proposals for greater democratisation and accountability, and the Conservatives' for more efficiency, with a hint of privatisation. At the same time David Cameron was very clear in his promise that there would be no top down reorganisation. I read a ...
Criminals are not good people. That is what people say. Those who break the law deserve to be arrested and be punished for their actions. So how do people feel when they see the headline? 5 more arrested, accused of feeding homeless in Orlando. What a terrible crime. For those that don't know this is the culmination of a four-year court case where it was ultimately decided that feeding homeless people should be illegal. Well when I type say maybe I'm being a tad unfair. It is illegal to disribute food to groups of 25 or more without a valid ...
Şanlıurfa or "Glorious Urfa" received its honorific title in recognition of the city´s resistance to French occupation between the end of the Fırst World War and 1920, as the modern state of Turkey started to take shape. Not far from the border with Syria (across which some refugees have been escaping in recent weeks) Urfa ...
At the last Community Spirit Action Group meeting, residents raised concerns that the waste paper bin at the Neighbourhood Recycling Point (NRP) at the east end of Scott Street is often full. I asked the City Council Recycling Projects Officer if it could be either collected more frequently or an additional paper bin provided. I have now had the following positive feedback from the City Council : "My colleagues in Management Services have just advised that a third weekly collection date has been added to the Scott Street NRP schedule. The paper bin will now be emptied Monday, Wednesday & ...
As I wrote on Thursday, plans to debate air pollution and cycling safety in London were axed at the London Assembly after Conservative members walked out. Since then, however, the Conservatives Assembly members have been at sixes and sevens over why they walked out. Andrew Boff claimed it was in protest at the Conservatives not being allocated any committee chairs. There are only two problems with this. First, his colleague Richard Tracey in fact gave a completely different explanation - saying they walked out because they didn't get their way on an earlier motion on a different topic. And second, ...
This morning, Janet and I had the pleasure of attending the Blackness Primary School Summer Fair. Despite heavy rain, there was an excellent turnout of pupils, parents and families. Here's a couple of photos! Fraser enjoys the Strawberry Shortcakes! Head Teacher Mr Ferrier helps the fundraising effort - from the stocks!
This afternoon, Claire and I popped over to Kew Estate for a couple of hours to support the St Francis of Assisi Fair. The event was opened by Councillor Maureen Fearn, seen here enjoying her beef burger. The fair was well attended and the weather was fine.
Business Secretary Vince Cable writes today at the Financial Times on the Coalition Government's approach to deficit reduction, in response to the International Monetary Fund's endorsement. He explores the reasons for the financial crisis and its legacy, and suggests, The only sensible macro-economic policy stance is a tight fiscal policy combined with a loose monetary one: Plan A. He concludes: Co-operation between the coalition partners remains vital for the good of the economy. While there is much common ground there are differences of emphasis. Liberal Democrats prioritise radical banking reform, progressive taxation and the green economy. Conservatives set greater store ...
The City Council has advised : "To ensure the safety of the public and workforce while work to realign one of the major routes through Dundee Waterfront is taking place, South Marketgait will be closed to eastbound traffic at City Quay roundabout. From June 14 drivers travelling in this direction at this location will be diverted via the Inner Ring Road. Work is expected to last 12 weeks." As this will affect West End residents travelling to parts of the City Centre and to the east of the city, you can download the flyer about the roadworks by clicking on ...
Yesterday was a pretty harrowing day. No getting round that. A day when I was laughing my head off one minute and bawling my eyes out the next. Saying goodbye to someone who's been such a big part of your life is never easy. I'm grateful, though, that I was able to share the day in the company of wonderful friends old and new. Lots of hugs were exchanged by people on the same emotional big dipper. When I arrived at Waverley, Stephen Glenn was already there and Helen Duffett arrived a few minutes later. We then caught up with ...
Earlier this week, I mentioned some of the criticism by certain propagandists of the motion I have placed on the City Council's Policy and Resources Committee next Monday, expressing concern about the plight of the people of Gaza. There's been something of a predictable campaign by these people, who have a few things in common - few (if any) live in Dundee (most e-mails, some with very inappropriate content, emanate from outwith the UK) and most writers are in a state of denial about the behaviour of the Israeli government and military over the Gaza blockade. The letter in today's ...
I received the following e-mail the other day (it actually went straight into my Spam folder which is pretty impressive): Subject: Publicity Proposal to neilmonnery.co.uk My name is Lily Holmes and I was wondering if you are interested in exchange links, I'll place your link on my sites exactly here: fit-fuers-abi(dot)com PR5 online-casino-games.mypoker4u(dot)com scarborough-casino(dot)com If you agree please send me your site details: Title: Url: I´ll place your link in less than 24 hours, then I'll send you an email with my info. Regards I can't say I'm exactly bowled over by the publicity proposal I must say. Considering I ...
"Who now remembers the Armenians?", Hitler is supposed to have said, a week before the German invasion of Poland in 1939. The implication of his words being: "If nobody now remembers the mass killings of Armenians that began in 1915, then who will notice if we now commit our own mass killings of Jews and others?" There is actually some doubt as to whether or not Hitler used these words on this specific occasion, and some doubt as to what the exact words might have been, but they are still utterly chilling. Who now remembers the 1982 Hama massacre, when ...
News is out that Southport FC will play in the Conference Premier Division next year because Rushden and Diamonds have been expelled. The AGM of the League is today ahead of a court hearing for R&D next week. It is understood that R&D owe in the region of £750k. Altringham FC have three times been saved from relegation at the AGM when other clubs have gone out of business and now Southport are the latest winners of the AGM CUP. The main point though concerns the financial fragility of much of football and maybe it is another example of the ...
Ed Balls and friends are in a bit of a mess at the moment. The Telegraph has been given a document that shows a plot, named Project Volvo, to remove Tony Blair and replace him with a rebranded Gordon Brown. The document is dated 21/6/05. As Londoners were dealing with a failed second terrorist attack ...
[IMG: Scoot] Scoot Everyone knows we all grieve when a family member or friend dies but pet owners also grieve when their pet dies. This can seem strange to people who don't have pets and can only be understood by those who do. I've now had personal experience of this when my cat Scoot died on Wednesday. I got Scoot from the Assisi Animal Sanctuary (Newtownards, Co Down) in August 2000 when she was about 8 weeks old. I never knew her exact date of birth but counting back it must have been sometime in June meaning she died very ...
Guided Bus Liberal Democrats have welcomed the news that the long-awaited Cambridgeshire Guided Busway will finally open on 7th August.Better late than never. It is incredible that the project has overrun by two years. It is the longest busway in the world in more ways than one. And we are appalled that the cost looks likely to go up to £187 million, with local people left to pay for £71 million of this. So much for the Conservatives' promise at the beginning of the project that 'not one penny" of taxpayers' money would be needed to pay for the busway'.The ...
On a hunch, earlier this year I did a little research ahead of writing a blog post for Liberal Democrat Voice: how often is the phrase "community politics" used by the party's national spokespeople since the May 2010 election? The answer was far worse than I'd feared. Looking through all of Nick Clegg's major speeches, all the news release from him and also all those from others issued via the Liberal Democrat press team, I could only find one use of "community politics" - by Paul Burstow. Andrew Stunell deserves an honourable mention for using it in an LGA pamphlet ...
We don't see a great deal of ethnic minority in Ashford. So in preparation for the slutwalk I had to go to the town centre and station to catch a train. I probably do not have the body language of someone who wears a hijab regularly, I'm nosy and curious and I tend to meet anyone's eye. Therefore, I was astounded to have people actively looking away as I walked across the car park. I'd turn,
Healing a non-Disease Ed Simpson has written an excellent post about the upcoming 'Interrogating the Pejorative - Considering Therapeutic Approaches and Contexts for those Conflicted in Sexual Identity'. I could save all those wanting to waste time and money on attending such an event with this simple summation. Those conflicted in sexual identity are conflicted because other's say it isn't normal, that they need to be cured of it, that they can't find love or be loved because they have same sex attraction. In other words lay off trying to cure us of something that isn't a disease. If that ...
I hadn't realised until just now that the Hugo Voter Package also contains electronic copies of four more novels: Monster Hunter International, by Larry Correia, I am not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells, Moxyland by Lauren Beukes, and The Magicians by Lev Grossman as well as a short story by Grossman and four more short stories by Saladin Ahmed; all five authors have been nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (not to be confused with the John W. Campbell Memorial Award). I must admit that I generally haven't voted in this contest in the ...
There were five council by-elections this week: four of them resulted in holds, while the Lib Dems lost Chelmsford Central to the Conservatives. From ALDC: Highland UA, Tain and Easter Ross The votes below are the First Preference votes. An Independent was elected at the fourth stage. Ind 1204 (37.6; +1.3) SNP 1037 (32.4; +20.4) Ind 547 (17.6; +6.4) LD Antony Gardner 318 (9.9; -6.2) Ind 97 (3.0; -14.3) [Con (0.0; -3.2)] [Lab (0.0; -3.8)] Turnout 36.4% Ind hold Percentage change is since May 2007. Essex CC, Chelmsford Central Con 1496 (43.6; +10.0) LD Graham Howard John Pooley 1323 ...
The wages of populism is U turns. Dear old Eric Pickles just couldn't resist playing to the gallery of Daily Mail readers whipping up a campaign to restore weekly bin collections. We have had the full range of scare stories in Sefton Tory leaflets-which is a tad surprising as they voted for the scheme and successive Tory spokesmen for that policy area on the Council have backed the plan. For several elections we had a Tory opponent who had this as a high priority. Here in Sefton it would cost us about £7m to restore the collections, but as we ...
This week I have been watching the video on YouTube of sessions from the BBC Social Media Summit held on Friday 20 May 2011 and organised by the BBC's College of Journalism. These provide a fascinating snapshot of how the journalistic profession and media organisations of all types are adapting to the challenge of social media. If you are interested in this sort of thing it is well worth watching in full. What follows is a couple of things that stood out for me that I thought I should make a note of: Cultural change within organisations The first session ...
United States Defence Secretary, Robert Gates, is coming to the end of his term. In fact-I believe-he is retiring from politics. Before his retirement, Gates continued the arcane American tradition of criticising Europe on departure. His critique was enriched with ... Continue reading →
At 18 pages this is one of the shortest chapters in the entire Decline and Fall - possibly even the shortest; I haven't gone back and counted. Gibbon outlines the early history of the Paulician heresy in Anatolia in the ninth century, links them to the Albigensians (who we now tend to call the Cathars) in the thirteenth century, and then explores the benefits of the Reformation.
With the new version of the government's health plans due out on Monday or Tuesday, expect tomorrow's papers to be full of pre-briefing from the different camps – the pro-Lansley Tories, the rest of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. The first of that trio are likely to have by far the toughest, verging on implausible, task given the major changes coming to the original NHS plans. The bigger media battle is between Conservatives and Liberal Democrats (or Cameron and Clegg if you prefer your politics in distilled personalised format) over the relative credit for those changes. The news from ...
David Cameron may be having enough problems keeping his government on message but on Thursday he fell victim to a stunt by the most wilfull member of his own household. The London Evening Standard report that Larry the Downing Street cat almost ruined one of the Prime Minister's carefully constructed public relations stunts: The Prime Minister, sitting in a Mini Cooper outside No 10, was due to thank BMW chairman Norbert Reithofer for £500 million invested in the Mini factory in Cowley, Oxfordshire. But minutes before Mr Reithofer arrived, Larry chose to make a foray outside the famous black door. ...
It may all be ancient history to Ed Balls, who is quoted this morning as lamenting the publication of his private papers for 'political motives', but the revelations contained within the documents serve as a useful reminder for just how strife-ridden and useless Labour were. The latest insight is a document by civil servants urging spending restraint from the Labour government in 2006. The file was written when Tony Blair was PM and Mr Balls was a backbencher. The BBC say that this latest document, published by the Telegraph put forward ideas for savings ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review ...
You may have seen Lynne Featherstone (Equalities Minister and Liberal Democrat MP) on the BBC calling for the Chief Executive of Great Ormond Street Hospital to resign over the Baby P scandal. You can watch the interview and read Lynne's own blog on the subject which gives far more detail than I ever could. Mark Pack gives a useful summary on Lib Dem Voice. In a nutshell, Lynne claims that senior staff at Great Ormond Street withheld important information from the Serious Case Reviews into Baby P's death. You may remember that while Haringey Social Services were heavily criticised at ...
This week the South Glos Development Control (West) planning committee considered the Beech Hill Farm tipping and Mayshill in-vessel composting facility applications. Local councillor Claire Young spoke on residents' concerns on both applications. After some discussion of the highways issues and how rejected loads should be dealt with, the committee granted a 2 year temporary permission for the Mayshill composting facility. They added a condition requiring a travel plan and, if there isn't more specific legislation covering it, a requirement that rejected loads are taken away immediately in the van that delivered them. Highways issues were also the main concern ...
In writing this article I do not claim any great wisdom in how to fight list elections. In fact the fact I survived the latest Welsh Assembly poll has more to do with the decline in the Plaid Cymru vote than anything I did, though the amount of effort and targeted work we put in must have had some significance in securing a 54 vote majority. This is what I did. It may not be appropriate in other areas and it may be fairly obvious to any experienced campaigner. Inevitably there were things I could have done better or did ...
Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor has died at the age of 96. The New York Times says of him: Once described by the BBC as "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene," Mr. Leigh Fermor was as renowned for his feats of derring-do as for his opulent prose. After joining the Irish Guards during World War II, he was judged to be promising officer material for the Special Operations Executive, the unit created by Winston Churchill to wage war by unconventional means. Mr. Leigh Fermor's superiors deemed his fluency in modern Greek useful in leading resistance to German ...
A new after school club which welcomes children from any local school, though mainly primary schools, is starting in St Patrick's Church Hall on Monday, June 13th. It's called "The Olive Tree" and is a private concern with which I have no personal connection, but I was taken by the enthusiasm of one of its founders when I dropped into St Patrick's Church Hall the other day. They arrange to pick children up from local schools and will run for longer than some after school clubs which I could see being really useful for some parents, and with both of ...
Graham Watson, Liberal Democrat MEP for South West England and Gibraltar, has received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2011. He's listed under Knights Bachelor – Knighthoods: Graham Robert WATSON, MEP. For public and political services. Congratulations, Sir Graham! Also: Dorothy Thornhill, Mayor of Watford, receives the MBE "for services to local government in Watford, Hertfordshire". Jonathan Webber, Chair of Wolverhampton South West and the West Midlands Region, has been awarded a MBE for services to Business. Cllr Terry Stacy receives the MBE for services to Housing in London. Terry was leader of Islington Council 09-10 and is leader ...
A BBC London investigation has revealed that Great Ormond Street Hospital witheld crucial information from an inquiry into the death of Baby Peter. The full BBC report is here. Local MP, Lynne Featherstone writes about the issue here Mark Pack covers the matter here.
I was dismayed on my way home yesterday to realise that I had now listened to the last episode of Nebulous, a hilarious spoof sf show starring Mark Gatiss as Professor Nebulous, the leader of K.E.N.T. (the Key Environmental Non-Judgemental Taskforce) whose two secret shames are that his parents wanted him to be a clown and he accidentally destroyed the Isle of Wight. It's not deep stuff, but it's funny and affectionate towards its target (classic British sf, especially but not only Doctor Who). It is surprising how much of the humour is based on that old stand-by, catch-phrases. I ...
i) broadcast anniversaries 11 June 1966: broadcast of third episode of The Savages. Jano has absorbed the Doctor's essence and starts to behave like him. 11 June 2005: broadcast of Bad Wolf. The Doctor, Rose and Jack find themselves participating in TV game shows, but the Daleks are behind it all. ii) date specified in canon 11 June 1925: events of Black Orchid (1982)
So at last it will be Sir Bruce Forsyth in the Queen's Birthday Honours announced this morning. Also the presented of Radio 4's Women's Hour becomes Dame Jenni Murray. The Governor of the Bank of England becomes Sir Mervyn King and the actress Janet Suzman also becomes a Dame. Later today the latest Royal Duke will ride as an escort for the Sovereign as she takes her Birthday salute at the Trooping of the Colour by the 1st Battalion Scots Guards. He was seen here riding in the Colonel's review last week, sitting on the grey Wellesley. This is the ...
I bet Ed Miliband thought he was being original when he came up with his wheeze of starting with a blank sheet of paper and crowdsourcing all of Labour's new policies. Not so! Islington Labour pioneered this stupid tactic with their 'Fairness Commission'. The Commission has now produced its report, as advertised in the Guardian ...
I had the feeling this year was going to be a good one watching all the excited tweets from people I didn't know on twitter. There was a real buzz in the museum when we were queueing to pick up our passes, and we ran into lots of people we knew. The air of excitement as we went into the first film was palpable. Bloodbath at the House of Death This is a very very silly film, written by Barry Cryer and starring a wealth of British comedy talent - John Fortune and Pamela Stephenson - and has Vincent Price ...
Saturday: Yay, fifty minutes of quality Doctor Woo, a season finale with historical dressings up and the threat of decapitation (eek!). Yes, we're VERY happy that they are going to re-animate the missing episodes of "The Reign of Terror". Meanwhile, in the Reign of Moffat... the Sith monks, with their cowled robes and red laser-swords, have allied themselves to the stormtroopers to prepare their ultimate weapon, but a small band of rebels have landed on the artificial moon that is their secret base... Hang on, isn't that "Star Wars"? Meanwhile, River Snog finally reveals ("spoilers!") her handle's "water music". What? ...
