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Iain M. Banks (Orbit, 1996)
Jan 3 • The Editors and Tobias Sturt

December 2025

Metropolitan Mixtape: December 2025
The year in review
Dec 27, 2025 • The Editors
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (1892/1984/1991)
"Remarkable, Holmes!", "Meretricious, Watson." "And a Happy New Year."
Dec 20, 2025 • The Editors and Tobias Sturt
Father Christmas
Raymond Briggs (Hamish Hamilton, 1973)
Dec 13, 2025 • Tobias Sturt
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Say, what gives?
Dec 6, 2025 • The Editors and Tobias Sturt
Christmas Movie Season 2025
And a one, two, three, four...
Dec 2, 2025 • The Editors

November 2025

Metropolitan Mixtape: November 2025
Diplomats, gangsters, monsters and the Christmas playlist
Nov 29, 2025 • The Editors, Tobias Sturt, and Rowan Davies
A Study in Pink (2010)
The scarlet thread of disappointment running through the colourful skein of TV
Nov 26, 2025 • Tobias Sturt
The corporate theory of value
I seem to have accidentally retired at the grand age of 54 (thus becoming one of the 50--64-year-olds whose ‘economic inactivity’ forms part of the…
Nov 22, 2025 • Rowan Davies
1991: Fever
What a lovely way to burn
Nov 15, 2025 • Tobias Sturt
Bimbo eruption
SPOILER WARNING for Primary Colors (the novel and the film)
Nov 8, 2025 • Rowan Davies
Down with Skool (1953)
Chiz, chiz
Nov 1, 2025 • Tobias Sturt
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