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This is where I stick articles, the occasional story, links, documents and other ephemera when and as they come along. Consider yourself lucky this stuff is free, because, after all, I am not cheap. Affordable, yes. But not cheap.

[18/09/2024] Space Marine 2: Putting Lieutenant Titus On The Couch. - On Ultramarines, extreme violence, mental health and a possible game of the year. May contain Tzangors. [LINK]

[01/04/2024] Nick Cave and learning through loss. - A letter of mine published by The Guardian newspaper, wherein I very politely disagree with, err, Nick Cave. [LINK]

[06/08/2023] "We Shall Make No Excuses For The Terroir": The British Miracle Meat's Half-Baked Satire. - Meat is murder...ously underwhelming, as Channel 4's grisly satire lacks the guts to take on its audience. [LINK]

[13/05/2023] ChatBots and the War Against Cliche. - Wherein too many tropes, conventions and formats make journalism and fiction vulnerable to the dread chatbots. Boo. Hiss. Etc. Enshittification ensues. [LINK]

[07/04/2023] “Hen Nights in Innsmouth” – Media Narratives and Counter-Narratives of Blackpool - Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside, as fishmen, urban blight, media misrepresentation, and starling murmurations collide. [LINK]

[24/12/2022] A Christmas Ghost Story - Things go tres spoop as the old tradition of Yuletide ghost stories is revived. [LINK]

[01/12/2022] 35 years of Warhammer 40,000, and the problem with grimdark - I go off on a major rant about a certain wargame setting and its miserabilism. Bring back the Zoats. [LINK]

[17/06/2021] Death from Above - Where I recount a suitably weird tale about vengeful crows, a wounded pigeon, and a frightened tomcat to Harper's Magazine. [LINK]