Hilarious. There are at least five unofficial Star Trek tricorder apps to turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a fake scanner. Beam me up Jobsie? The developers daren’t mention the name of the TV and film franchise, of course; presumably the word ‘tricorder’ hasn’t been copywrited to Paramount Studios, which is a surprising omission unless someone coined the term before the first series started to air in the 1960s. I don’t know. I bet there are Trek fans out there who do.

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In a country where the outcome of elections is decided by the most recent likeable soundbites and Daily Mail-reported scandals that sheeple can remember, we can perhaps hope that David Cameron’s revelation that he doesn’t watch the new Doctor Who and isn’t keen on David Tennant as The Doctor might be enough to curdle his popularity rating among all those under the age of 30 who it is said are going to be voting him into power because they don’t know any better.

The news (yes, they call this kind of thing news nowadays) that Cameron doesn’t like Tennant comes after the actor made clear his dislike of the Tory leader and his party when interviewed in this month’s Doctor Who Magazine, as I reported here.

We won't be seeing Cameron dressed up like this the day after the General Election, then. Via Wikipedia

It could yet be that the Time Lord’s greatest enemy turns out not to be Davros or even Michael Grade (former BBC1 controller who tried to kill off Doctor Who in the 1980s because he didn’t like the show) but instead the Tories who have their sights set on exterminating the TV licence fee and forcing the BBC to spend less money and start allowing ad breaks.

And why do the Tories hate the BBC? Because the corporation is perceived as being biased against them. They long for the days when all the presenters came from Surbiton, had the kind of plummy English accents you could make jam out of, and only spoke on air about nice things that posh people liked. It all started to go wrong when television started appealing to the lower classes, you know.

If Tory plans to provide tax cuts for the rich while dismantling the UK’s public services under the guise of necessary cuts doesn’t scare you, maybe the idea of a Prime Minister who doesn’t like Doctor Who might.

I’m just sayin’. Whoo-eee-oooh.