Pop Culture Politics JOE – 2025 Year in Review with Ian Hislop 19 Dec 202519 Dec 2025 Alongside the usual Spotify playlists and Reddit stats, one of the sharpest annual roundups comes from PoliticsJOE. Each December, they sit down with Private Eye editor Ian Hislop to pick…
Pop Culture Private Eye – The Year In Review 2025 17 Dec 2025 December always brings a blizzard of “year in review” content. Spotify tells you what you’ve been looping, Reddit reminds you of your strangest obsessions, and YouTube floods you with “best…
Film… TV Review: Year of the Rabbit 6 Jul 20256 Jul 2025 Released by Channel 4 in 2019, and now available on Netflix, Year of the Rabbit is a sitcom created by Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley. It stars Batt Berry, alongside…
Pop Culture… Comedy Review: Fern Brady, Autistic Bikini Queen 16 Feb 2025 Released on Netflix in 2024, and based on her 2022 tour, Autistic Bikini Queen is a comedy special by Fern Brady. Brady is a Scottish comedian from Bathgate who was…
Pop Culture Private Eye – The Year In Review 2024 (Plus JOE) 15 Dec 202414 Dec 2024 Something I love about this year is the annual roundups in various places. You get your Spotify summary, your Reddit one (apparently my three top subjects are board games, Europe,…
Blogging… My Current Favourite Podcasts (April 2024) 3 Apr 20243 Apr 2024 As much as I spend a lot of of time thinking about games, playing games, talking about games, and writing about games, I'm not currently listening to any podcasts about…
Pop Culture Media-Watch: The Saga of Lil Sandwich 3 Feb 2024 Every so often there comes along a viral online series that utterly captures me. I remember this happening with LonelyGirl15, for example. Well, that one went off the deep end and got…
Miniature Games Warhammer 40,000: The Unadulterated Joy of Collecting Anything but Space Marines 17 Jan 20248 Jul 2026 Warhammer 40,000 is a tabletop miniature wargame by Games Workshop that has captured the imaginations of countless hobbyists and gamers around the world. I don't think you'd be on this website…
Pop Culture… Still Game: Review and Play Suggestions 5 Sep 20235 Sep 2023 As I previously have with Wednesday, Yes, Minister, and Charles III, I'm using this post to combine a review with some play suggestions for RPGs. This time, it's the turn…
Pop Culture… Yes, Minister: Review and Play Suggestions 14 Dec 2022 The British sitcom is a specific artform that is unique to our little island nation. We do comedy well in a general sense, but it's hard to beat us in…
Pop Culture… Review: Dropout.tv (Streaming Service) 9 Aug 202212 Aug 2022 A different kind of review today. When I do review something - as rare as my reviews are - it's usually directly games related. Well, saying that, I have reviewed…
Pop Culture… Middleditch, Schwartz and a Masterclass in Fiasco 31 May 202031 May 2020 In April, Netflix posted a series of three comedy specials from Thomas Middleditch and Ben Schwartz. These names may be familiar to you. Middleditch is best known for his starring…
