"Make them remember you." The Doctor’s advice to Amy and Rory as they faced the Parliament of the Daleks (episode 1: 'Asylum of the…

Some thoughts about the film Prometheus and the human search for meaning.

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‘I don’t know if the story I want to tell you is entirely true,’ confesses the narrator at the opening of Michael…

How do we know who or what to trust? This is one of the key questions of the world we live in today. So many claims compete for our trust:…

We imagine war is tough. We know it puts great strain on soldiers. But is war a drug? Even ‘the supreme drug of human…

There are many people who will have switched off during the first five minutes of Skins, E4’s notorious wild-child. The show is…

The statistics are every bit as mind-boggling as the spectacle. A reported budget of $280,000,000 makes James Cameron’s Avatar one of…

Mark Meynell is disoriented by the reality-probing of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. There are three deaths. The first is when…