James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper
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Ex-poster. Writer. Highgate Dad. Bit Desi.
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BSB - Part One: "I don't know why you say 'Goodbye' I say 'Hello'."
Interviewed for the New Jersey Network’s The Making of Doctor Who in 1988, producer John Nathan-Turner explained his wish to leave the series by saying it...
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Free for All, with a bunch of links to other pieces that have snuck outside the paywall in honour of the day. It's the start of the 1990 BSB Doctor Who repeat weekend, over at Psychic Paper.
Free for All, with a bunch of links to other pieces that have snuck outside the paywall in honour of the day. It's the start of the 1990 BSB Doctor Who repeat weekend, over at Psychic Paper.
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Free for All, with a bunch of links to other pieces that have snuck outside the paywall in honour of the day. It's the start of the 1990 BSB Doctor Who repeat weekend, over at Psychic Paper.
Free for All, with a bunch of links to other pieces that have snuck outside the paywall in honour of the day. It's the start of the 1990 BSB Doctor Who repeat weekend, over at Psychic Paper.
BSB - Part One: "I don't know why you say 'Goodbye' I say 'Hello'."
Interviewed for the New Jersey Network’s The Making of Doctor Who in 1988, producer John Nathan-Turner explained his wish to leave the series by saying it...
buttondown.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
buttondown.com/cooray_smith...
Free for All, with a bunch of links to other pieces that have snuck outside the paywall in honour of the day. It's the start of the 1990 BSB Doctor Who repeat weekend, over at Psychic Paper.
Free for All, with a bunch of links to other pieces that have snuck outside the paywall in honour of the day. It's the start of the 1990 BSB Doctor Who repeat weekend, over at Psychic Paper.
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Norman Ashby, Guy Leopold and Robin Bland walk into a pub. The barman says “Lads, I’m gonna have to see some ID.”
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Norman Ashby, Guy Leopold and Robin Bland walk into a pub. The barman says “Lads, I’m gonna have to see some ID.”
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buttondown.com/cooray_smith... New on psychic paper: How much Doctor Who do you have to have absorbed to count as a fan, and what's the most obscure Doctor Who story you can think of?
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"All of Me, Loves All of You?"
Something that comes up a lot online is the idea of how much of Doctor Who you have to have engaged with (or have recall of) to legitimately call yourself a...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
buttondown.com/cooray_smith... New on psychic paper: How much Doctor Who do you have to have absorbed to count as a fan, and what's the most obscure Doctor Who story you can think of?
For paid subscribers, but why not become one and get full access to the archive?
For paid subscribers, but why not become one and get full access to the archive?
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The most important thing you can do to improve your quality of life is to quit discursive social media.
You’re in a doom loop of looking for dopamine hits in the places that make you need them.
If you are reading this, you shouldn’t be.
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The most important thing you can do to improve your quality of life is to quit discursive social media.
You’re in a doom loop of looking for dopamine hits in the places that make you need them.
If you are reading this, you shouldn’t be.
Don’t reply. I won’t see it.
November 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Logging in to say “log off.”
The most important thing you can do to improve your quality of life is to quit discursive social media.
You’re in a doom loop of looking for dopamine hits in the places that make you need them.
If you are reading this, you shouldn’t be.
Don’t reply. I won’t see it.
The most important thing you can do to improve your quality of life is to quit discursive social media.
You’re in a doom loop of looking for dopamine hits in the places that make you need them.
If you are reading this, you shouldn’t be.
Don’t reply. I won’t see it.
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At the risk of talking shop: there are just under 50 Government Bills before Parliament (including Employment Rights, English Devolution, Great British Energy) which aren’t getting the media attention that Coalition Bills at a similar point did. We’re missing proper scrutiny outside of Parliament.
This whole Streeting vs Starmer story is such a Westminster bubble inanity from a bored media class that has gotten addicted to toppling governments and abdicated any responsibility for what they're actually meant to be doing in a healthy society
November 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
At the risk of talking shop: there are just under 50 Government Bills before Parliament (including Employment Rights, English Devolution, Great British Energy) which aren’t getting the media attention that Coalition Bills at a similar point did. We’re missing proper scrutiny outside of Parliament.
Sometimes, being wrong is the BEST.
I am contributing to Doctor Wno cancellation discourse, whether you like it or not. buttondown.com/cooray_smith...
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...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Sometimes, being wrong is the BEST.
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I am contributing to Doctor Wno cancellation discourse, whether you like it or not. buttondown.com/cooray_smith...
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...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I am contributing to Doctor Wno cancellation discourse, whether you like it or not. buttondown.com/cooray_smith...
Reposted by James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper
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The Mind Robber
“It's too bad that all these things can only happen in my dreams. Only in dreams. In beautiful dreams.” In 1990 BBC Video really accelerated their Doctor Who...
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October 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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For subscribers only, but with a taste and two links to free pieces contained within it, it's turn and face the Genesis of the Daleks, over at Psychic Paper.
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Genesis of the Daleks
“It’s time to start all over, make a new beginning.” As I’ve said before here, sometimes the most celebrated Doctor Who stories are both the hardest and the...
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September 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
For subscribers only, but with a taste and two links to free pieces contained within it, it's turn and face the Genesis of the Daleks, over at Psychic Paper.
buttondown.com/cooray_smith...
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this is a lovely read for Twin Peaks fans
- and for those of you who prefer writing not about Doctor Who and which you don't have to pay for, I've done a guest column over at the legendary and long running twinpeaksblog. twinpeaksblog.com/2025/09/08/r...
Recap from BFI Screening of 'Twin Peaks' Pilot with Kyle MacLachlan
Recap from the BFI Southbank screening of the "Twin Peaks" pilot with Kyle MacLachlan held on Sunday June 15, 2025.
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September 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
this is a lovely read for Twin Peaks fans
