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So, I’ve found that Hasbro has a YouTube channel live steaming Transformers episodes. Including Beast Wars! Now, I love Beast Wars. I remember the beginnings of G1, but Beast Wars kept me a fan of Transformers in the ‘90s after I stumbled upon the internet presence of a fandom. That might’ve...

I have the 2022 reissue Retrax, but yesterday found I had my 1997 (1998?) original figure stashed away. But! While the reissue is bright white, the original is this slightly pearly stained-dentures shade. Was the original off-white, or has it discoloured in the last quarter-century? (The reason...

The Labor Party has beaten the Liberal/National coalition. Just a matter of time to see if Labor has a majority or it’s a hung parliament.

This isn’t good — Hungarian quasi-dictator Victor Orban has won another supermajority in last weekend’s election. This was with the opposition doing the unprecedented step of uniting as one bloc, everyone from the centre-left Socialists, Democrats and Greens to the right-wing JOBBIK. Even then...

Petrol (gasoline) shortage crisis mounts (due to Brexit): Food and goods shortages building (due to logistics crisis caused by Brexit, and already very visible where I live): Surging prices of natural gas used for heating (due to leaving the single European energy market and the ongoing...

So, later this month there’s a federal election in Germany, alongside simultaneous state elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. So, who are the contenders? (Remember that German governments are multi-party coalitions, with rare exceptions.) CDU/CSU – the dominant centre-right bloc...