Married to Richard, he/him, gay, Doctor Who fan, still European, Liberal Democrat, mostly ill, burnt-out firebrand (but gets by online with the odd spark).https://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mlrfbuwsms2mOTD 2006: #DoctorWho Rise of the Cybermen Twenty years since this two-parter broadcast homages to *every* previous TV Cyberman story Some tenuous, some huge – step forward (choreographed by Ailsa Berk) The Tenth Planet & The Invasion Plus: why “Delete”? Thread: All The Cybermen! 1/2213 May 2026 22:50 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlrfbuwsms2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mlre4tqg3s2m“By midnight tonight, this planet will be pulled inside out!” OTD 1996 Doctor Who: The TV Movie – Time Waits For No Man on VHS Thirty years since Paul McGann was the Doctor… a fortnight early (If you queued outside HMV at midnight) We did, obviously.13 May 2026 22:30 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlre4tqg3s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mlrb4c5hvs2kOTD 1961: The Avengers – The Springers The TV version is long-lost, but I have thoughts on the remake: https://loveandliberty.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-avengers-lost-episodes-springers.html ⚡️ Steed’s appalling cover name ⚡️ How early Avengers makes an optical illusion ⚡️ The biggest difference between TV and Big Finish Dr Keels (not the beard)13 May 2026 21:36 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlrb4c5hvs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mlrawtkjok2kOTD 2023: Novel Experiences Derby A ’90s #DoctorWho celebration My hearts are forever with the New Adventures, and the thrill of meeting the showrunners… [They’re the same picture]13 May 2026 21:33 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlrawtkjok2khttps://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mlr3ap4x2224OTD 1981: Into the Labyrinth ITV kids’ fantasy series starring Ron Moody and Pamela Salem (my heart!) as duelling time wizard Rothgo and time witch Belor Often rushed or silly, always cheap, but those two are worth it all – and a bad woman more precious than rubies. “I deny you the Nidus!”13 May 2026 19:51 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlr3ap4x2224https://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mlqzj4nqtk24Out with the buoys13 May 2026 19:20 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqzj4nqtk24https://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mlqwkkdtgk2mOut on a date! Unfortunately today’s date appears to be ‘First of forty days and nights of flood’13 May 2026 18:27 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqwkkdtgk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mlqpcbrlbs22People argue over whether Tolkien’s politics were conservative or radical ecologist, but today I think the most important lesson is that he saw Macbeth and when BURNHAM* moved it was such a terrible, crushing, utter disappointment he wrote The Lord of the Rings to prove it should’ve been better13 May 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqpcbrlbs22https://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mlqmc6zkec2pI agree with every word, but you’ve just sent me down a pyramid-hole thinking of one of her earliest starring roles vs a modern self-aggrandising -monument-building President and wishing for a new Land of the Pharaohs in which he gets both the Pharaoh part and Nellifer’s ending [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 May 2026 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqmc6zkec2phttps://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mlq2dx3t6s25One of those mornings where it gets dimmer and dimmer outside to the extent that I came back to my desk, thought, ‘Blimus it’s dim in here, better turn on my extra lamp,’ pressed the button and was plunged into Stygian gloom as I already *had* put the lamp on and that was turning it off.13 May 2026 10:02 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlq2dx3t6s25https://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mlohwuze2k24Look, my Shakespeare joke here is extremely funny and clever if you just study it carefully, OK Oh God I’ve turned into my old English teacher [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlohwuze2k24https://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mlo2jp4pbc22OTD 1960 An Age of Kings Episode 2: Richard II – The Deposing of a King A useless King clinging on not because he knows what to do with the job but it’s just his entitled right to have it An exile comes back to seize the crown The result is mostly decades of civil wars among the Rose symbol party12 May 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlo2jp4pbc22https://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mlnwiitv7s2iI (mostly) remember to take all my various prescriptions by time of day and similar patterns: Eat two bags of fudge through the morning, no pattern, no pills Have a small salad for lunch – ah! Take Metformin with meal! Well done, me.12 May 2026 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnwiitv7s2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mlnrndbcdk27I know Labour people don’t believe any other party has the right to exist, it religiously offends them, so by their terms rather than a Liberal Democrat I’m just a Labour Party atheist: I just loathe, despise and reject one more contender for the Labour Party Leadership than each of them do.12 May 2026 12:21 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnrndbcdk27https://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mln6udbslc2vMake a band out of two times two others? The The Duran Duran Talk Talk Thompson Twins [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 06:45 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mln6udbslc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mln6k6uyzs2oMake a band out of two others? Electric Light Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 06:39 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mln6k6uyzs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mlmadqryps2uBrilliant episode! Si’s deep joy (more enthusiasm than usual from Si – I KNOW) makes me want to try a series I saw bits of at the time and none since, bar the inevitable clips Though a bit wary of what I’ll make of it, having now passed my own Meldrew Point (a couple of years to the Hartnell Point)… [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 May 2026 21:39 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlmadqryps2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mlm4gmowf22rBack when I was a member of the Lib Dem Policy Committee, what I was most effective at was small changes: I would say, ‘We need something in this policy paper about [e.g. LGBT rights or young people]’ but I would then have that something prepared in advance, I would read my detailed proposal out…11 May 2026 20:29 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlm4gmowf22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mllzls4ldc2nI should’ve just done one, but **** it, I thought this was funny so I’m doing it again: Travelling Wilmanchesters [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 May 2026 19:38 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllzls4ldc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mlluxufszc2vSlightly increase a band Going by what I’ve been listening to out walking Heaven 17.3 Tom Robinson Torc Travelling Wilmanchesters [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 May 2026 18:15 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlluxufszc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mlliod4zds2mOver 400 MPs to choose from and incredible that all Labour can find are: 🥀 Junior Prince of Darkness 🥀 Not even an MP and no way of becoming one* 🥀 ‘She dodged her own taxes but she wants to put your taxes up!’ (unfair or not, you’d hear nothing but that over and over forever)11 May 2026 14:35 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlliod4zds2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexwilcock.bsky.social/post/3mljbiwvjoc2eOTD One of #DoctorWho’s greatest seasons comes to a close on TV, then two years later its scary reputation gets turbo-charged on the page… OTD 1975: Revenge of the Cybermen Part Four OTD 1977: Doctor Who and the Ark in Space …with Ian Marter’s Target novelisation, a masterpiece of visceral horror10 May 2026 17:21 +0000at://did:plc:5oxmmejbvv3tieufrfrdurjs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mljbiwvjoc2e