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Station Ident: Spitalfields

Morning.

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CAPTAIN SWING: Issue One On Release

The first issue of CAPTAIN SWING AND THE ELECTRICAL PIRATES OF CINDERY ISLAND is out in North America today, the UK tomorrow. And you can find a preview of it here.

Leaving Town

See that tree? They're knocking central Southend down around it, because it has legal protection.

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Station Ident: Interlude

We used to have "interludes" on British tv, which (for instance) filled gaps in live transmissions that ran short, or plugged intervals in big productions.

I'm off to London. Here's a classic (by which I mean ancient) BBC interlude.

Station Ident: Interliude

We used to have "interludes" on British tv, which (for instance) filled gaps in live transmissions that ran short, or plugged intervals in big productions.

I'm off to London. Here's a classic (by which I mean ancient) BBC interlude.

Night Music: EL Heath

"Obsolete, Part 8":

Fortress America, London SW4

The new US embassy to the Court of St James's has been designed, says the US state department, to "reflect the values of the American people".

As reported by the Guardian, the new US Embassy in London is intended to be "a 12-storey cube clad in a blastproof glass and plastic façade" surrounded by a 30-metre blast zone. In the proof image above, it looks not unlike a high-end bunker has been simply dropped from space on London, an impregnable and isolated chunk of America. And while...

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The Most Disturbing Submission Letter Ever (Or Perhaps Just "Yet")

Steve Bunche was shown the following by another editor, back when he was on staff at DC Comics. Mildly worried to see myself namechecked…

Ah, See, Now It's A Good Day

Bleeding Cool reports that Grant Morrison is writing a tv series for BBC Scotland to star Stephen Fry and presumably being produced/directed by Paul McGuigan.

It's seven episodes. It takes place over seven days around an event that happens in Scotland. It's a modern take on an old fable or fairy story. If you know Grant's work you might have an idea of what it will be like. It's like Twin Peaks meets Brigadoon! It's off the wall and smart but in a watchable commercial way. It's still in the...