I remember when Mat Coward in the New Statesman described the character of the Doctor as “explicitly a vegetarian pacifist”, back in the early 1990s. Sylvester McCoy I think is a pacifist and CAAT supporter, and in the book of “Human Nature”, the Doctor actually picks up a white poppy to give to Tim, but then that shows the fickleness of writers and the tendency of readers like me to concentrate on meaningless emblems. In fact, possibly what Virginia shows [PN 3535] is only that family entertainment in general ha become somewhat more violent and less morally thoughtful since 1963. Anyway, nice to have the occasional light article. Steve Wright is planning an activism and humour conference for September.
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