Why is it so cold in Katesbridge (and Castlederg)?

Andrew Hickey: Why Earthshock succeeds, against the odds.

"The Americans have never wanted the UK out of the EU. If they did, they’d say it."

Wishful thinking: "...the idea that I am going to hold the euro zone to ransom at a time of acute financial stress by blackmailing our closest trading partners with some cobbled-together list of vague and probably unachievable ultimatums, risking years of damaging uncertainty, simply to appease a faction in my party who will never be reconciled to…

Remember yesterday, when we were all crowing about the wonderfully geeky White House response to the tongue-in-cheek “build a Death Star” petition? Just remember that the same people were in charge of the Federal prosecutors who destroyed Aaron Swartz.

Welcome to the Northern Ireland that won’t vote itself out of the Union but won’t give Unionism majority support.

@telegraph: fiendish Yanks pushing Brits to surrender to Herman Van Rompuy. About as incisive as Viz on Marx and Engels.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, via Viz.

"Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann will all reprise their roles as, respectively, the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors... Louise Jameson reprises the role of the savage Leela, Sarah Sutton plays the scientist Nyssa, Nicola Bryant is American botany student Peri, Sophie Aldred is streetwise kid A…

...that it is a big problem which is getting bigger.

6 of the 20 hottest days ever recorded in Oz have been in *2013*.

Was it generally known that Le Guin declined the Nebula Award that went to "The Bicentennial Man"?

...as he beat Robert Graves and Lawrence Durrell.

All in one nice graphic.

Al-Jazeera gets into it.

Wow. Just, wow.

Two naked-eye comets, one of them very bright!

Penguin to publish an ebook each month from January to November.

Walsingham more iconic than he realised!

“What’s wrong with Victorian values?” asks Dr. Simeon as the Doctor faces him down, and for once the Doctor (and the show) spell it out.

And a good thing too.

Richard Branson speaks.

Rosie's advice: sleep better, eat less sugar, lift heavy things.

I think this is slightly exaggerated - many in the Brussels bubble ignore the UK debate in the hope that it will just go away - but it's a fair point.

Execellent analysis of The Snowmen.

Four films, four games, some dodgy maths...

An elemental dragon appears off the coast of Africa in 2013.

Broken Britain in 2013.

Alien invasion in 2013.