The current Royal Bank of Scotland fiver features Scottish writer Nan Shepherd. This is one situation where they should have really gone for England as opposed to being all inclusive by referring to the United Kingdom. In case anyone is interested three Scottish banks have the right to issue sterling notes.

I believe the recordings were made after the speech had originally be given in the House of Commons, so presumably there are reports the speech was a bit more full on in this more rumbustious environment.

Pretty sure still a UK citizen with a green card.

"Blue Rat" - All the Energy of a Rat Trapped in a Can!

The film you are looking for is "Gunpowder, Treason & Plot" a BBC TV movie written by Jimmy McGovern (of Cracker fame) and starring Kevin McKidd and Robert Carlyle as James I (VI of Scotland). The film starts at Mary's return to Scotland (with Mary played by Clemence Poesy with her French accent) from France and the…

The Culture books have come to the worst ending possible.

I quite liked Maniac 5, at the time.

Honestly thought you were going for:
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Honestly thought you were going for:
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Dredd has done whimsy and satire brilliantly, but as befits a character that has been around 35 years there have been plenty of gritty and realistic stories. The current storyline in the prog "Day of Chaos" is one of the best ever and is anything but whimsical.

Dredd has done whimsy and satire brilliantly, but as befits a character that has been around 35 years there have been plenty of gritty and realistic stories. The current storyline in the prog "Day of Chaos" is one of the best ever and is anything but whimsical.

Come on, Colonel Pyat people! He plays a nice game convincing you the character is genuine. A deliberate doth protest too much moment? Byzantium Endures!

Come on, Colonel Pyat people! He plays a nice game convincing you the character is genuine. A deliberate doth protest too much moment? Byzantium Endures!

Ok, it's an ad, but it's a phenomenal ad.

The TVTM is back people!

so many things wrong with this
This is happening in the same universe as doctor who. An alien space craft crash lands into big ben a couple of years ago followed by a separate one the size of a city hangs over london for a few days and people only speculate this may be ailens? Even assuming this is a parallel parallel…

Sweatpants? Try "tracksuit bottoms" next time.

a proper writers opinion
As a writer who straddles both camps (in what could be desribed as a having his cake and eat it way) I asked Iain (M) Banks his opinion on the Atwood situation at a q+a following a reading from his latest book. For what it is worth he was very much in the - she is writing science fiction even…