On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?

(Nice.) This week I’ve got some SFF adjacent essays, Hugo commentary, both pre- and post-con (I love con reports or Hugo thoughts), multiple new book lists,...

The UK government is finally starting to put together advice for households to stock up on food supplies, which should be announced as part of a campaign soon (I’ll add a link here when the official…

Can Animals Count? What’s It Like Getting Stuck In Antarctica? All this and more exclusively in the latest issue of our e-magazine.

Jake Casella Brookins Hello, readers! I am still adjusting my internal body clock (and thermostat) back to Buffalo standard, after a wonderful time at Worldcon. I’ve had a great con season, it was …

Without more ace and aro stories on our screens, the momentum of what little representation there was could be lost

'This is a really decentralized company. We completely decentralized'

A new crop of stories to start the fall off with

Genres have always been determined by race.

I’m a French Black woman whose favorite game of 2025 was not Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. And how could it be, when South of Midnight was released around the same time?

I'm not sure I want to write this - it's not my suffering and there's already so much bullshit on this that I don't want to add more to it. Where I've landed after a sleepless night is this - I am responding to Prof. Jason Arday's death in complicated ways and I need to write about them, not least because I have (White) friends who need to understand better what it's like to live with this.

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Disabled Students UK (DSUK), the UK’s largest disabled student organisation, are proudly launching the findings from our Annual Disabled Student Survey (ADSS) in partnership with the Snowdon Trust. Fo...

In an alternate Spanish Golden Age, where the map becomes the territory and mapmakers are the architects of reality, the Council of the Sea Beyond has risen to unrivaled power, exploiting the world’s ...

Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights".

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Byelection winner says heatwaves are causing ‘absolute chaos’ and workers need protection from unsafe conditions Hannah Spencer is to introduce a bill in parliament that would pave the way for a maximum workplace temperature in the UK, as the country grapples with increasingly frequent heatwaves. If passed, the legislation will create an independent body to recommend maximum safe workplace temperatures and set out how those recommendations should be implemented. Continue reading...