Subject: They're all about different things.
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Posted on: 2017-12-26 15:38:00 UTC

It varies between a ghost story from the point of view of a six-year-old child to poems about fairies to a spoof review of an exhibition comparing Turner to Dorothy Cross.

The overriding theme, though? Power. And what we do with it. What we excuse because of it. Be they a burger van operator and part-time supervillain in a decaying seaside town, a modern art lecturer and defender against the unknown horrors of a terrifying multiverse, or a former naval officer with a very special wristwatch, it's about power in the end, and what people with power will let themselves get away with. Power fascinates me. It's why I write a Time Lord, at least in part. Power, and people with power, inform every aspect and every moment of our lives, and what they do with their power - however meagre, however local - ripples out into the world. A little old man who's lived at number 22 for as long as anyone can remember might not think they have power, but they do, and it's interesting to look at it and analyse it and, well, appreciate it. We all have power, in our own way.

It's up to us to decide what we do with it.

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