Labour have done damage to themselves on trans rights, disability. They could have been far smarter on winter fuel payments.

Israel is a mess, but one western democracies have failed…Read more

Meanwhile…. And there it goes, Farage and co will be insufferable, as will the media. RefUK and the Tories will see as the perfect opportunity to return to their natural position of lording it over everyone loudly.

And Burnham? He’s about to get…Read more

This is a weird game. I’d like to say you should go and play it without any reservations or caveats, as in some respects it does deserve that. But there are those certain creative decisions and structural inconsistencies that mean I can’t.

It’s easy to see why it won at The Game Awards in 2024. Team Asobi could have simply stopped at…Read more

Meanwhile, the Reflecting Pool turns green. Trump….

Blames Obama.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r2l352z2do

Kind of amazing that it’s from the BBC.

Anti-immigrant ones were also held in the same locations, but they were very, very much in the minority.

Meanwhile Reform-led councils are exhibiting either incompetence, they don’t know how it works…Read more

Feral is interesting as, in some respects, it’s quite a retro book. In that it isn’t arc heavy, there’s no writing for the trade but neither is it aimless. If anything it’s more akin to an animal soap opera amid a rabies outbreak.

As such it really mostly goes issue by issue, relying on the character relationships. And…Read more

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/11/global-wars-depleted-military-stubborn-labour-john-healey-keir-starmer

And simply sacking the manager won’t solve it, politics isn’t football.

The three 60th specials? Those were good.

Ruby was a good addition, the eps worked until the big mess of a finale.

Cue good Xmas special then what was done with Ruby was repeated with Belinda. Its baffling.

And then there was the spin-off, four good eps and a total disaster of a conclusion.j

I’m sticking with Big Finish, they’ve the license to 2030 and it seems almost everyone wants to work with them.

What’s there left to say about a series that has racked up twelve books over 20 years? And they’re all superb, they all fit together. Something this volume shows in micro with its five chapter structure.

What’s perhaps Criminal’s smartest card is it doesn’t matter what order you read them in. Sure, if you read…Read more

The only thing that hurts this series is its frequency, couldn’t tell you what happened in the last volume either. Worse, it’s an ongoing arc that isn’t concluded here either.

Still, if it’s hurt by this, why isn’t the wound fatal? Because this team, led by Fraction and Dobson, are that good. Also the super-OHC format…Read more

Aka Giles, aka Mr Gently Benevolent, aka Numerous Charming English Aristocratic Bastards and the Gold Blend Bloke.

With the demise of Humanoids it looks like Abrams might be looking to move into the gap.  Either way, this is an excellent start, with two more volumes the way.

The story is a western, with Dorison using a diptych structure, common across BD works. As you might also expect the art…Read more

The first series of this was an interesting examination of identity, roleplaying and games, of how the three cross over and inter-link. Invariably there’s also a measure of damage involved too.

This second series involves different but not new characters, characters in the background of the first series. One…Read more

This is a swift read, does that make it a bad read? Nope. A large part of why it is a swift read is due to the flow of the story, the writing, art, letters and colours being so very good, it all whisks you along.

The core part of this volume is built a cat lady and the idea that cats worshipping any human is way off. Cats…Read more

On the one hand this is the first volume after the major arc of the preceding volumes, thus it has to attend to flapping plot threads and set in flow new plots. Even allowing for that there are a couple of major weaknesses. One of these might be solved by future issues, the other cannot be.

First,…Read more

This turned out to be a very weird game. It’s mostly good but gets in its own way too much to be great. And, compared to its predecessor, Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, it feels like a step backwards. Its visual communication is less clear, enemies no longer have health bars.

In the second half of the game…Read more

Feels odd but not bad, I don’t feel bad about it, but not sure I could I say what I do feel about beyond a sort of odd bemusement.

Taking it easy too with a week off.

We’re denied a likely withering assessment of a man claiming to have been forced to kill at 7 years of age and other dubious claims.

This intriguing Bendis-Araujo story isn’t easy to get in the UK, nor cheap, plus this final book has the extra burden of having to conclude it. Is it worth it? I think so.

Many stories claim to depict an alien world, but that’s rather hard to do. This one pulls it off. There’s recognisable pieces of our world, but…Read more

Where Stray Dogs was a contained, compact tale of a specific, individual form of evil that is a serial killer, this goes for a different adversary. A more viral one. Along with humans’ response to a rabies outbreak being indiscriminate animal slaughter.

Fleecs and Forster create a world that a load of indoor cats are manifestly…Read more

You know if you do a story with either animals or robots, you can get away with all kinds of stories in a way that just isn’t possible with humans. At the same time animals enables a perspective shift that can, if used well, be very interesting. Suffice to say this combines both.

A tale of a serial killer who kills women then steals…Read more

Sometimes a title alone gets a book attention, which this does. Then the creative team add to it, as its Rucka and Scott back together on a DC book. More Black Magick? Would be nice but this is also very good.

The art is excellent across the six issues, if anything it’s the story where it…Read more

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/26/tony-blair-labour-abandon-net-zero-support-donald-trump

I’m not a big fan of final stories of this nature, but they can sometimes work. This one? It’s OK. McNiven’s art is great. One problem is the introduction mis-sells the story, it’s not a story of the Marvel universe, it’s a much smaller, more personal tale.

Another weakness is the setting and the worldbuilding for…Read more

I suspect one of the details that’ll come out is the sentencing guidelines were too imbalanced.

It is likely the sentence is revised by the Attorney General, as it’s…Read more

The New Mutants 30-36

The first story is a Claremont special, picking up a long hanging plot thread and doing interesting things with it. This one is what happened to Karma, who after disappearing apparently became a super-fat sadist. Of course, that’s not the case, she’s been possessed by Shadow King, who survived his…Read more

Also get the sense it’s perhaps more demanding behind-the-scenes in keeping this thing running that we know, so moving to Discord reduces the load on Gar.