The truth about the abortion debate — Yet again, we find ourselves in a state of affairs where abortion is at the very forefront of all political discourse. Roe V Wade has been overturned by the US Supreme Court and many states are as a result enacting laws outlawing abortion in even the cruelest ways. Many people…

A forgotten gem of LEGO games — We’re all familiar with the LEGO Star Wars games from the mid to late 2000s. LEGO Star Wars 1 and 2 were released in 2005 and 2006 respectively, at the tail end of the PS2/Xbox generation. These were soon followed by the release of the Complete Saga on the new…

Breaking the spell of NHS worship The NHS is something that is almost universally well-regarded in the UK. I say almost because there are a lot of people who’ve become aware of the shortcomings and outright neglectful nature of many aspects of NHS care. …

Against Remasters. Something that we saw a lot of in the last generation of gaming were remasters of games from the Xbox 360/PS3 era of gaming and a lot of people were excited about this. I can remember pretty much when I got my PS4 in 2015 being excited about…

Fundamental texts of socialist literature — There are many texts and works that are or should be considered to be foundational in the history of anti-capitalism and otherwise radical left literature. Capital, The State and Revolution, In Defence of Marxism, the list goes on and on. Many times when discussing books of this nature people remain…

Returning to Discworld — I must say that I’ve been on a bit of a Pratchett/Discworld kick at the moment so I thought I’d give a go at writing about Sourcery which I read a few months back. …

Returning to Valhalla — I’ve written about Assassins Creed: Valhalla a few times now and my opinion on it has changed quite a bit over the last few months. Originally I got it when it came out and completed it a few months later before any of the DLCs were even released. As I’ve…

How do transphobes account for exceptions? — Whenever you argue with transphobes like the sort of people who follow Ben Shapiro or Matt Walsh you will inevitably wind up at the same point eventually. They will claim that women or men are defined by these rigid pseudo-scientific binaries and there is no possible deviation from this rule…

Telling stories of beautiful literature — A while back I wrote in a previous article that I hadn’t quite been able to get as much reading done as I would have liked in recent months. I’ve been in the business of moving out on my own for the first time and a whole host of health…