I’m a Consulting Detective, if you can understand what that is. Here in London we have lots of government detectives and lots of private ones. When these fellows are at fault, they come to me, and I manage to put them on the right scent. – Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet
Bloggy purveyor of culty delights – Séan Baldwin
Will Barber-Taylor has the gift of getting good folk to talk to him. The Cult Den
Mission Statement
You can contact The Consulting Detective or Will at willbarbertaylor@gmail.com
The Consulting Detectives aims to become a website of various things, not aimed at a certain person or market. A library of reviews, a catalogue of articles, a comfy armchair to relax in during a cold winter evening. The author of this web of intrigue has a biography below:
Will Barber – Taylor is a writer, actor and director. He started writing reviews and features for The Cult Den in late 2011 and since then has been going from strength to strength. He has interviewed Richard Johnson, Saul Metzstein, Tom Spilsbury, Heydon Prowse, Simon Guerrier, Alex Scarrow, Edward Russell and many others. Will has also written a short piece for the book You and Who which was released in December 2012. You can find his articles, reviews and interviews on this blog as well as many other sites.
Sites/ magazines Will has worked for:
The Cult Den: 2011- 2015
The Gallifreyan Gazette : 2013-2014
This Way Up: 2012
Fish Fingers and Custard Fanzine: 2012
Atomic Comic: 2012
Doctor Who Online: 2013
What Culture : 2013
Haddonfield Horror : 2014
Wordsworth Trust Blog : 2015
Chat Politics : 2015
Genre Reader : 2016
Politicised: 2016
Soft Left Politics 2017
Telly Binge 2017 – 2019
Appiral 2017
Labour List 2017
Backbench 2017
The Round 2018
Left Foot Forward 2018/2020
The Custard TV 2018 – 2019/2020/2021
The Social Review 2019/ 2022 – 2023
Huffington Post 2019
Foreign Policy Press 2019
PoliReview 2020
Young Fabians 2020 – 2022
Policy Network 2020
HOAS Warwick 2020
Mercury Magazine 2021
The Boar 2021
Yorkshire Bylines 2021
Family Tree 2021
The New Voice 2022 – 2023
Media mentions
Dirk Gently – The Telegraph, 2012
IMDB – promotion for WhatCulture article
Debated Podcast Mentions
Lib Dem Voice on interview with Judith Bunting 2020
Lib Dem Voice on debut of the podcast, interview with Alistair Carmichael 2019
Lib Dem Voice on podcast with then 2019 Lib Dem candidate Elizabeth Evenden-Kenyon
20 Best British Political Podcasts of 2021
Mathew Hulbert on Debated – Hinckley Free Press
You can find The Consulting Detective on Twitter ( @WBarberTaylor), Tumblr (TheConsultingDetectivesBlog.com) and Pinterest (theconsultingdetective).
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- Interview with Saul Metzstein (Director of Dinosaurs on A Spaceship, A Town Called Mercy and Pond Life) (theconsultingdetectivesblog.wordpress.com)
- Interview with Tom Spilsbury (Editor of Doctor Who Magazine) (theconsultingdetectivesblog.wordpress.com)
- The Consulting Detective’s Review of The Snowmen (theconsultingdetectivesblog.com)
- From Doctor Who to American Psycho: Matt Smith and other actor rebrands (theguardian.com)
- Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective (en.wikipedia.org)
The Consulting Detective 
Dear Will, I have been searching for the 8th doctors sonic screwdriver online for months now, can you please tell me where I can purchase one from, as the ebay link you gave is telling you that it has been sold! Maybe I am looking in the wrong places god knows, can you help me?
Yours very frustrated
Stuart
Hi Stuart you can now get the Sonic Screwdriver from http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk or http://www.forbiddenplanet.com . Hope you like it!
Hi Stuart,
The reason you can’t find it is probably due to the fact it hasn’t be officially released yet. I’ve no idea when the sonic will be released. Wave 2 seems to consist of The War Doctor’s Sonic, The Fifth Doctor’s Sonic and The Eighth Doctor’s Sonic. The War Doctor’s Sonic is the only one you may be able to pick up online. The Eighth Doctor’s Sonic that I referenced in the post appears to have been “nicked off the back of a lorry” as it were! When I get news on the Wave 2 Sonics I’ll post it on the site.
Thanks,
Will
Dear Will, just to let you know that I have now successfully placed my preorder for the 8th Doctor’s sonic.
Thank you ever so much Will.
Regards
Stuart