Allan Wright

We are absolutely CHUFFED to be returning to the UK and Ireland next September!

Artist presale is live NOW: password is Pageant40.

Public sales start Friday Nov 28 10am UK time zone.
Ticket link in bio.

Happy Doctor Who Day everyone
62 years of Gallifreyan fun and frolics!
👍👏🩷

@applemuzz.bsky.social

Another tremendous night in Edinburgh with the @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social and the star that is Alex Miller.

Peter Watkins, Oscar-winning director of The War Game, dies aged 90 Radical English director who clashed with the BBC over his ‘horrifying’ film about nuclear war, was forced to look abroad to continue working Peter Watkins, the radical British film-maker who won an Oscar for his controversial drama-documentary The War Game, about a nuclear attack on Britain, has died aged 90. His son Patrick confirmed that he died on Thursday, but no cause of death has been given. Watkins was an uncompromising figure who clashed with the BBC after the latter failed to show The War Game on broadcast TV, and subsequently led a peripatetic film-making existence, looking overseas for backing. He was wary of the press, in a rare interview he spoke to the Guardian in 2000, saying he was “someone who has been working for 30 years to help shift the power balance between public and TV”. He added: “Had TV taken an alternative direction during the 1960s and 1970s and worked in a more open way, global society today would be vastly more humane and just.” Continue reading...

Peter Watkins, Oscar-winning director of The War Game, dies aged 90

Always an honour to work for the foremost Horror writer of our generation. Or any generation.
Hard to say no to Garth. Actually, now I think of it, it’s impossible to say no…🤔

Thanks once again to artist Joe Avery for the glorious cover artwork and @alisdairwood.bsky.social for more wonderful internal illustrations.

BREAKING: THE NEW YORK JETS WON A FOOTBALL GAME.

Thought you would appreciate this @a2ndchapter.bsky.social

Our first zine of UK comic ephemera collects together some of the most historic and attractive of the price stickers that UK comic shops have used over the last 50 years. Both a valuable record of how comics have been sold, and a potent nostalgia bomb.
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness (if you feel like)

"And since it has no call to be here, the art lies in the fact that it is here..."

"Doctor Who: City of Death" episode 4 (1979). #DoctorWho

I’d add
The Exorcist
Rosemary’s Baby
Trainspotting

Don’t tell @paullitchfield.bsky.social, we’ll never hear the end of it tomorrow

Oh no, just awful news.

#5DebutAlbums8084
1980 U2: Boy
1981 The Replacements: Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash
1982 The Cocteau Twins: Garlands
1983 REM: Murmur
1984 Lloyd Cole and the Commotions: Rattlesnakes

Yes, so did Dave Hill!

The album’s tremendous, got my blue vinyl copy ordered. And remind me again, what’s a fringe???

The Cords

Not sure if you’ve heard of them but I can wholeheartedly recommend Glasgow band The Cords, excellent janglepop with a touch of early shoegaze. open.spotify.com/album/1shf97...

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

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"I tell you what, that Mohammed bin Salman, eh? Blimey, what a fine example of a Crown Prince and Prime Minister"

The Life Cycle of a Song

Rory McIlroy saying what we were all thinking #RyderCup

Tweet @UnderdogGolf tweeted Rory to the crowd: "Shut the f*** up" *hits shot to 3 feet* https://t.co/x6WDRXGafY

@UnderdogGolf tweeted Rory to the crowd:

"Shut the f*** up"

*hits shot to 3 feet*

https://t.co/x6WDRXGafY

The stunning piece of Trevor Jones music that plays over the stirring finale is actually "The Gael" by Dougie MacLean, a piece composed for the Loch Ness Exhibition

youtu.be/3JuC1hYCdvs?...

SUNDAY OCTOBER 19th
WHEEZING LIVE!
#AtTheBedfordPubBalham

You can't buy Red Hood, but you can buy plenty of other DC comics by others accused of worse - COMICSXF The problem with writing about the cancellation of DC’s Red Hood is it’s impossible to write about in a vacuum.

Time to check out the top articles from the past week at CXF, led by our editorial on the cancellation of Red Hood by DC: comicsxf.com/2025/09/21/e...

What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.