Evan Jones

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I will always remember when the Dugga was Doo

Lost In Transition (or Why I’m Dugga Done with 2025) It’s the last day of 2025 and I’m not entirely sure where it all went. You know, I sometimes think about how the different eras of each Doctor coincide with each of the different phases of my life. (Conisder this to be my Eras Tour!)

Goodbye 2025! So long and thanks for all the Dugga Doos!

It's a lovely 6th Day of Christmas at my true love's house, and you are six horrible geese

Amazed they have decided to credit Chris Chatterton as Director of an episode that isn’t animated!

The first second of eternity has finally passed. Clara Oswald: The Untold Adventures’ first episode, ‘A Citizen of the Universe’, is available to read (link below).✨🔮 #DoctorWho #ClaraOswald

Planet of Evil is booooooooooringgggggggg

On the brand new Trap One🎙Podcast we learn the inside story on the exciting, ambitious new project ‘Clara Oswald: The Untold Adventures’ with the brilliant @undiscoveredadv.bsky.social

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EVEN MORE Russell T Davies and the Number 57 A lot of blogs have been written this year about things Russell T Davies has said and done. People are asking questions such as “What is the future of the show?” and “Why has he decided to bring Bi…

Happy Doctor Who Day! Why not celebrate by joining me in the concluding part of my Descent Into Madness over RTD’s favourite number?

EVEN MORE Russell T Davies and the Number 57 A lot of blogs have been written this year about things Russell T Davies has said and done. People are asking questions such as “What is the future of the show?” and “Why has he decided to bring Billie Piper back in an unspecified role?” These questions aren’t important to me. There’s only one question that matters to me, here, in this particular blog: “What has happened to my number 57?”

EVEN MORE Russell T Davies and the Number 57

A lot of blogs have been written this year about things Russell T Davies has said and done. People are asking questions such as “What is the future of the show?” and “Why has he decided to bring Billie Piper back in an unspecified role?” These questions…

Watching a very intense battle between an old bloke and a refreshments trolley man. Only one person can command control of this Crosscountry carriage aisle. Who will drop first?

My favorite comment on the FT story

NEW BLOG! In which I realise I still have more things to say about maths teachers in Doctor Who. Yes I know, there’s actually more than one!

Doctor Who and The Maths Teachers I have a question for you: do you know how many beans make five? I can hear you already shouting back at me. “It’s half-term week! School’s out! Let the teachers rest!” But I think there’s always time to learn something new. Especially when it’s about maths! Doctor Who has had a number of teachers appear over the years, starting with Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright back in 1963, who taught science and history respectively.

Doctor Who and The Maths Teachers

I have a question for you: do you know how many beans make five? I can hear you already shouting back at me. “It’s half-term week! School’s out! Let the teachers rest!” But I think there’s always time to learn something new. Especially when it’s about maths!…

1990 “It’s all just a little bit of history repeatin’.” “1990 was the brainchild of Wilfred Greatorex, and conceived as literally ‘1984 plus six’; a series that...

I am contributing to Doctor Wno cancellation discourse, whether you like it or not. buttondown.com/cooray_smith...

It’s 3pm and I’m trying to work but all I can think about is what if Mary Whitehouse was alive and kicking in the year 2025.

What does she think about TikTok? MrBeast? The Online Safety Act?

And then she discovers there’s hot people in Doctor Who, has a heart attack, and promptly dies again.

Every time there is family drama, they play the one piece of family drama music they have. It’s like we’re watching the family drama show or something.

I have started watching Succession and my favourite thing so far is how they only have enough money for one piece of music.

An unexpected new entry in the Untitled Goose Game franchise, but a welcome one nevertheless.

Series 8 is actually a commentary on the high turnover of secondary school maths teachers. It’s such a high-stress, underpaid, under-appreciated profession that even former soldiers would rather die than face OFSTED.

NEW BLOG! In which I have an oddly specific critique of In The Forest of the Night.

What would OFSTED make of Danny Pink? It’s now September, which means back-to-school time for millions of children. So I thought I’d write something with a school theme. And what better school to write about than the first one ever to feature in Doctor Who: Coal Hill School? But I’m not going to talk about An Unearthly Child, I’m here to talk about that episode everyone loves to hate: …

What would OFSTED make of Danny Pink?

It’s now September, which means back-to-school time for millions of children. So I thought I’d write something with a school theme. And what better school to write about than the first one ever to feature in Doctor Who: Coal Hill School? But I’m not going to…

An online shop listing on the Big Finish website, listing two short trips boxsets at a reduced rate. Volume 13: Tales from the Vortex for £15.99, and Volume 11 for £13.99.

Short Trips fer sale! Lovely Short Trips, get yer Short Trips while they're cheap! Fill yer boots with 'em. Then strap 'em on and do a quick 5km whilst you to listen to When I Say Run, or cosy up with a dark and melancholy sci-fi fairytale, Inside Story. www.bigfinish.com/collections/...

I also wrote about my love for Castrovalva and the number zero earlier this year, so why not share it again, in tribute? thebrainofmobius.co.uk/2025/04/11/c...

As a mathematician and a Doctor Who fan, I adore Christopher H. Bidmead’s work on Doctor Who, which showed how maths and science can be powerful, mysterious and poetic. Castrovalva remains a personal favourite. I wish I had the chance to meet him. RIP

If you’re watching The Thursday Murder Club on Netflix today, then honestly what on earth is wrong with you?

It’s Friday, come back and watch it next week instead.

Oh yeah, new blog!

(Unless you’ve been following me for five years, in which case it’s a HD remake of a classic blog.)

“… Only you know the rules.” – Game Theory in The Curse of Fenric “Real mathematics has no effect on war. No-one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems very unlikely that anyone will do so for many years… But the ‘great game’ of chess is primarily psychological, a conflict between one trained intelligence and another.” – G. H. Hardy Introduction The Seventh Doctor likes to play games.

“… Only you know the rules.” – Game Theory in The Curse of Fenric

“Real mathematics has no effect on war. No-one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems very unlikely that anyone will do so for many years… But the ‘great game’ of…

So one of the key selling points of MS Excel for financial services is that when you calculate something in a spreadsheet the answer is correct…

Google AI undergoes autism assessment after taking obvious joke at face value Google's AI program has been sent for an autism assessment after it failed to understand obvious satire, sources have reported. Head of AI engineering Paul Shinter, 34, has sent Gemini, two, for an…

“We’re no closer to finding out if Gemini has autism, but on the plus side, the energy it took to respond to the test did crash our servers and cause several wildfires in Los Angeles.”