From the Heart of Europe

• Student visa reform proposed | Home Office
  "Contribute your views to our consultation into how we can best reduce the number of students who can come to the UK." An appalling pretence at public consultation with the most biased online survey I have ever seen.
  (tags: ukpolitics)

9 December 1938: birth of Waris Hussein, director of An Unearthly Child (1963) and Marco Polo (1964).

9 December 1967: broadcast of fifth episode of The Ice Warriors. Clent prepares to use the ioniser; the Ice Warriors prepare to use their sonic cannon.

9 December 1978: broadcast of third episode of The Androids of Tara. The Doctor tries to rescue Romana, but it's her android double; the real Romana escapes and is recaptured.