Jamie Davies

An Open Letter to the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Team It has been a funny old time out here in the real world. Concern and paranoia dominate conversation; people eye each other with uneasy suspicion; and simple human contact feels like a true risk in ways it never did before. And yet, even amidst this rotten pandemic, your game is attempting to cut through the stench of fear that lingers all around. It doesn’t always succeed, but it always tries; for that, I thank you. Stuck at home, losing

Opinion writer Jamie Davies puts pen to paper in what, to many, is the completely insurmountable job of summing up 2022 in current affairs. Coming off the beatdown that was 2021, following UK politics feels a little like being the heroine at the end of a horror movie. You think it’s over, that the worst has passed and tomorrow will be a brighter day. Then the violin screeches! The killer’s motionless body leaps to its feet, and before you know it you’re running through the same haunted house as

I hope you’re rested after part one of our recap of British politics in 2022 because there’s no slowing down. If the state of Boris Johnson’s premiership was a game of Buckaroo, the months of April to June provided the last few adornments of sleaze and impropriety needed to send that bronco bucking. Among all of that we enjoyed seeing a chancellor embroiled in a tax loophole scandal, a rapidly rising cost of living and a migrant deportation scheme that couldn’t be more outrageous if the planes t