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Strange address - from all the restrictions (no cloakroom, no food or drink available, no toilets) and that numbers don't go as high as 180 on Piccadilly, I'm guessing it's going to be some sort of marque in Green Park.

Michael Parkinson, 88, broadcaster

This is what kittenblock is for (having said that, I don't know offhand if kittenblock covers the express, or just the heil.  Wonder where that leaves the telegraph?)

Think I'll leave it a few days to go to the British Museum though...

Always worth reminding us though - been ages since I've been to the BM, even though it's so close to Gosh! / Forbidden Planet.

ISTR being present for the conversation with the shop staff where the Bowie comment arose. The JoG queue was massive. It might even have gone round the block at one stage.

The Virgin Megastore near the corner of TCR?  Pretty big block for a queue*!

*Queue E 2 notwithstanding

Does this get us to proper prog dimensions yet?

It's good to see Rebellion are willing to work on ensuring "definitive" means definitive.

I'm just about to begin work so can't check, but weren't Titan around the usual prog dimensions in the 1980s?

When they first announced this I thought, Very pretty, but I'm happy with my old but pin-sharp Titan reprint from the eighties.
But they announce that there's an extra 31 millimetres and suddenly I'm gnawing my knuckles with barely suppressed lust and wondering where I'll find space for the first couple of volumes at least.

Damn you, Rebellion, with your seductive 31mm!

Thanks, I don't have to write a similar post now.

TL;DR is we shouldn't be complacent about hard-won rights, because they're pretty easy to strip away.

See also Rishi Sunak wanting to roll back any advances made in tackling climate change / pollution.

Because of my particular vintage I can't help but think of Prog 300 (my first forays in to collecting back progs was in that range - when buying near to 325 back progs seemed out of the reaches of sub-ten year old me, my goal was to get every prog from 300 onwards).  So I'm fully expecting a mini-copy of Spacespinner2000 number one - though we already had the redux episode, so maybe that'd be a bit pointless...

Anyway...

Congratulations on reaching episode 300!
Personal high points:
The unconvincing child accent - don't ever take lessons from a voice coach or accent teacher - we like it just the way it is!
Hot takes on old stories:
Drawing parallels between Anteater from Ant Wars and Wang Chi in Big Trouble in Little China - they're the true protagonists of the stories, even though Villa and Jack Burton think they are.
Old One Eye being the only strong female character in the early progs until Nessie joined some time later (Death Planet promised another, but this was promise was immediately pummelled in to the ground).
Dan Dare's genocidal tendencies.
Tom Tully specials (a villainous hand at the controls while watching the protagonists on a video screen).
The John Wagner specials - Deep South redneck accents and CB lingo.
Giving us recaps of stories in the lamentable nineties - reading them so that we don't have to!  (though I will get around to them, some day).

George Alagiah, 67, journalist, newsreader.

One for the "didn't know they were still alive until they weren't" list.

Not part of the rat pack but only because Tony was too busy with other things to raise hell (Tony and Frank were friends) beeb bio

Added the 7 x A3 Strontium Dog prints from the Johnny Alpha statue kickstarter campaign, and the Kidnapped adaptation hardback signed by Alan Grant and Cam Kennedy.

Coming up tomorrow will be the Outcasts mini series signed by John Wagner, and the Bogie Man #1 also signed by John.

Damnit!  Bought the (unsigned) set of Outcasts just a few months ago (on FCBD).

Milan Kundera, 94, author, exile from Communist Czechoslovakia.

because it's cow flavoured.

Not so obvious, but guess where the 'Bo' in Bovril comes from.
(Where the 'vril' comes from is just downright odd. I'll leave you to look it up.)

The same source as "It was a dark and stormy night", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", "the great unwashed" and "dweller on the threshold".