Snow Crash: Any large, collective organisation (particularly the government) is evil, ridiculous or both. Anyone who works for such organisations is either a mindless bully or a hapless and deservedly victimised dweeb.
 
The Diamond Age: If you’re not clever or resourceful enough to perfect yourself through your own…

Has he, though, toned down his noisome politics? It’s that, rather than the writing style, that finally put me off him. As someone who’s neither an entrepreneur nor a techie who helps entrepreneurs to achieve their goals I get a little tired of being told, repeatedly and in a variety of ways, that I am essentially a…

Through illness, tragedy or just plain ageing, a man becomes abruptly aware of his impending mortality, all the paths not followed etc. Maybe he gets a regrettable haircut. Maybe he buys a silly car. Maybe he gets guitar lessons. These are the main options.

Hopefully it's the trilogy…
… because the beeb couldn't afford to make The Honourable Schoolboy (unlike TTSS, the bits in Hong Kong can't be relocated to 'Portugal' as they rely on major landmarks and cultural stuff). And it's ace.

It's literally illegal to advertise drugs to the general public in the UK and most EU countries. You can advertise them to doctors - who can then lobby the NHS to buy them as approved treatments.

This, I think, is more of a reflection on the fact that trying to peek under the hood of Federation society would make it clear that nobody's given much thought to how it works at all - and certainly to why it keeps having wars. If it was as badass and post-scarcity as it claims to be (by the time of TNG, at least)…

VI fails as a film, for me, the moment Scotty opens a door and stumbles randomly across the bodies of the two murdered crewmen he's just been talking about. It's the point (which often happens with the less distinguished Star Trek films) at which you can almost hear everyone involved saying "Fuck it - all the Trekkies…

For what it's worth…
I really liked Unification and still do. I think I'm right in saying that this is one of the few double episodes which isn't based around a massive space battle or a mysterious alien or time travel or some other whiz-bang mechanic. It's trying (if not, mainly due to the reasons mentioned in the…

Five? Fun? Really? With its clumsy comedy moments and never-mentioned-again Spock backstory and equally-never-mentioned-again mysterious planet at the centre of the galaxy and 2.50 special effects budget and painfully obvious stunt doubles and anticlimactic sort-it-all-out-with-a-big-gun ending and, and, and…

As a companion piece…
…I suggest the Peter Watts short story 'The Things', retelling the events from the POV of the alien itself. Go here…

Inferiors =''in meetings". Damn you, overenthusiastic predictive texting

Jagger's lapse doesn't happen on stage, for me, but in failing to pull the plug - or at least refuse to perform - when it becomes clear that the wholething is unworkable. He's clearly smart enough to know that Belli is bullshitting him, he's inferiors where it's prettly clear to anyone paying attention that the venue…

Gimme Shelter?
Nobody comes off particularly well but Mick Jagger's patrician indifference to the horrible, horrible mess everyone is making of what was a pretty half-arsed concept in the first place is hardly redeemed by his feeble entreaties for calm when everything starts going exactly as wrong as it was always…

Space Precinct.

Let us be clear
Long have I raged internally at whatever mass hypnosis has caused anyone to think anything Gerry Anderson has ever done was other than shit.

Asuka - are you living in some sort of parallel Britain? Or am I? Tony Blair wasn't kicked out at all - he resigned voluntarily (albeit under various thunderous clouds, including the peerage thing and, oh yeah, Iraq) after it became clear that his staying on after he'd 'promised' to hand over to Gordon Brown after his…

And speakin' of cocksuckers…I'm Proposition Joe. You mess with me, I'll murder your whole family.

Alien Nation
I was surprised nobody mentioned it yet.

Christ, it's all there in the tagline, isn't it?

You knew the twist when you bought the ticket.
My take - the whole thing is a dream, but not the one you think it is.