Benjamin Woolley’s BBC4 series Games Britannia has been a tantalising documentary thus far. For a political gamer such as myself, much of the first two episodes have been meat and drink. I have to admit to not knowing that Snakes and Ladders was adapted from an Indian game called Moksha Patamu which was all about… Continue reading Games Britannia and the great global gaming myth [UPDATED]
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Cameron and Merkin: let’s co-operate in splitting up
After a week during which the Lib Dems wobbled over EU policy, it is nice to have a reminder quite how scarily paranoid the Tory hive mind is regarding the Dark Continent. Pravdale’s mini-me writes this about Cameron’s meeting with Angela Merkin: What has this meeting really achieved for the Conservative Party? It could be… Continue reading Cameron and Merkin: let’s co-operate in splitting up