Some old mini-news which we never ran in the mag that I just found in an old documents folder. Some good links in there. Mixmasters Following in the illustrious, politically aware footsteps, of George Michael, the thin white duke himself (David Bowie you ankle-biters!) has announced that his latest album is available for free download;…

I promise to stop it with the Rita stories after this, but her origin sounds like a work of fiction. If you just want to read that skip the next three paragraphs. — I took the train up to Carlisle on the friday, caught the wending country bus to Ecclefechan, and got a lift to…

I’ve spent the day in frantic negotiation over a quibble. My boss wants a game to go in the magazine; his boss wants it with an even more frantic desire. I feel that it would be good for the magazine in the short term if it went in, bad in the long term, because the…

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The Deptford Mice – The Rat Lair Does anyone else remember The Deptford Mice? This series frankly terrified me when I was a kid, and was the most unforgiving, horrifying thing I’ve ever read. It was like the siege of Munster (nice photo there) or Pol Pot’s Cambodia but with anthropomorphised piratical rats and wussy…