Tony Cross

James Bond is a Time Lord who was exiled to Earth. Got suckered into the Intelligence services - who know all about UNIT - and got really into the sex and killing. Him and The Doctor have occasional adventures together but none on screen. Everyone else thinks James Bond is a code name.

I mean there’s also this. And he bought him back. See also Conan Doyle and Holmes.

Just start again. No one cares. It’s Bond. Or do that ‘James Bond is a code name’ thing. Or team up with the BBC and make Bond a Time Lord.

It’s amazing how many British patriots who hated the EU telling us what to do are happy for Americans to tell us what to do. If Trump asked Reform to make the UK the 51st State they’d jump at the chance.

I mean if I was a billionaire I’d pay writers to teach me things - particularly historians. I’d build a place where writers/academics could stay for free on the condition they fill me in on their areas of expertise.

If people weren't taking their photos then no one would fucking know. And fuck you all for being judgmental about this shit anyway. Is reading in public - even if you're reading Dan Brown - performative?

YouTube video by Lokster Reads Remembrance Reads: Day Ten Reading

youtu.be/pKCfOFLdQD8 - It's Day Ten of Remembrance Reads. A Katherine Mansfield short story and Chapter 6 of Paul Fussell's 'The Great War and Modern Memory'.

One of my favourite things after Brentford beat most EPL teams is watching the horrified reactions of their fan channels. It's a constant joy. They normally start 'no disrespect to Brentford...but we shouldn't be losing to them...' or similar words.

One of my favourite things about celebrity podcasts is listening to them be forced to read out some terrible ad for some naff company.

YouTube video by Lokster Reads Remembrance Reads: Day Eight Reading

youtu.be/hE9-usM0GRk - Day Eight of Remembrance Reads: Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms', Chapters 25-28 Mary Borden's short story 'Blind', Paul Fussell, 'The Great War and Modern Memory, Chapter 5 and a new entry 'The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919' by Mark Thompson.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

YouTube video by Lokster Reads Remembrance Reads - Sidebar: Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)

youtu.be/m7hUV4iYG-I - My first Remembrance Reads video for today. A little sidebar into a film (with a book too.) A bit rambling, but that's me I'm afraid.

YouTube video by Lokster Reads Remembrance Reads: Day Seven Reading

youtu.be/3vl3OkSPjCs - It's Day Seven of Remembrance Reads here on Lokster Reads. And I have finished 'In Parenthesis.' Other reading: short stories from Richard Aldington and Anne Perry plus Chapter Four of Paul Fusell's 'The Great War and Modern Memory'

I'm sure AI can translate a word into another word, but can it translate tone? Can it translate context? Can it translate style?

Tell me you don’t understand the art of translation without telling me you don’t understand the art of translation PART 2

(i HATE THIS.)

Well, Dominic Cummings is a racist little prick. Who could have guessed?

I woke up at some ungodly hour this morning, but I have finished my fourth reading of 'In Parenthesis' by David Jones. I really need to do a really slow read. I did one part/day this year. But a real deep read is required.

YouTube video by Lokster Reads Remembrance Reads: Day Six Reading

youtu.be/BTLggvDAzRo - Day Six of Remembrance Reads is up. Not the best day. But still two good bits of reading done.

I have finished reading the twelve novels that make up 'A Dance to the Music of Time' by Anthony Powell. What a magnificent story, beautifully written. It is deceptively witty and light, but there's so much depth to it.

YouTube video by Lokster Reads Remembrance Reads: Day Five Reading

youtu.be/oxg9gpy7tiU - It's my Remembrance Reads Day Five video. A bit of a slack day today but a bit of literary criticism, Part Five of In Parenthesis, and a 'Sapper' short story from the Penguin First World War Short Story anthology.

Trump treating the White House like it is one of his own hotels. We're about a month away from it having a big neon sign with 'Trump's White House' on it.

That’s why I created my ‘Ridiculous Reading List Excel Spreadsheet’. It was designed to help me read things I wouldn’t normally read.

A white journalist at a white BBC has made what looks like a hit piece about a white writer charged with racism by a number of writers of colour. The twist? The BBC attacks the writers of colour.

Solidarity with all Black and Brown people fighting to be treated with dignity. Screw the racist BBC.

NHS staff bearing brunt as ‘ugly’ racism of 70s and 80s returns, says Streeting Exclusive: Health secretary and NHS England chief warn of winter pressures and rising levels of abuse

You know Wes you and your government might want to stop fuelling that racism with your toxic language and policies you fucking hypocrite:

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Yeah, as if Hollywood gives a shit about witchcraft or nudity.

YouTube video by Lokster Reads Remembrance Reads: Day Four Reading

youtu.be/znbu42Kd7po - What I read on Day 4 of Remembrance Reads. I was doing my Tommy Cooper impression here. (I wasn't.)

YouTube video by Lokster Reads The Blood of Poets: Some thoughts on Wilfred Owen on the Anniversary of His Death

On the anniversary of the death of Wilfred Owen I thought I'd re-post my Remembrance Reads video from last year - youtu.be/Dxw-Dnhugic

Jack Edwards’s rise is one of the signs of the impending apocalypse

That's been my feeling on both.

YouTube video by Lokster Reads Remembrance Reads: Day Two Reading

youtu.be/B6X0npJcGHk - My video on what I read on the second day of Remembrance Reads.