January was a month for trying new things – but while my girlfriend took a step further towards maturity I took a giant leap back, writes Dan Wainwright.

Have you seen those adverts where the couple remind each other to leave all their stuff on display for the burglars? I hate those, writes Dan Wainwright.

So, the planned march through the town of Wootton Bassett by radical group islam4uk never took place – are you remotely surprised? writes Dan Wainwright.

As far as final words go they were hardly as epic as Beethoven’s “Friends applaud, the comedy is finished” or as humorous as Humphrey Bogart’s “I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis”, writes Dan Wainwright.

Ding dong. The witch is dead. The cycle of recycled pop fluff has been broken and the dominion of the X Factor over the Christmas number one lies in tatters, writes Dan Wainwright.

I have joined the anti X Factor rebellion and bought Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name to get it to Christmas number one, writes Dan Wainwright.

With 20 shopping days to go I finished my Christmas present buying at the weekend, which I think entitles me to sit here and judge the rest of you, writes Dan Wainwright.

Inevitably they have done it. Criminals have managed to create a computer virus that infects mobile “smart” phones, writes Dan Wainwright.

They called it the beginning of the end for David Tennant but something far more serious has happened in Doctor Who, writes Dan Wainwright.

The accusations are flying, politicians are in uproar and there is a real fear that British democracy has been compromised, writes Dan Wainwright.

For the first time since starting this blog I feel I should cross a line and explain where I stand on an issue that has been causing controversy in the Black Country since before I even became a journalist, writes Dan Wainwright.

The striking, large letters look monolithic, almost ancient yet modern as well – timeless, I suppose, like the Doctor himself, writes Dan Wainwright.