Quite fond of OK and their classic album Sensible Distance From the Precipice.

...are we talking stuffed as in cuddly toy, or stuffed as in taxidermy?

Great followup, loved the section on the lesser-known bands of the era and the analysis of why the revival petered out at the time is great. fakegeekboy.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/d...

They did that when I saw them at the Albert Hall a while back! It's a nice touch.

"OK so his head *did* messily burst during that motorcade but he'd really been doing a number on his blood pressure..."

I reviewed it! It's quite good.

Ah yes, the star of Do't Lok Bak

In D&B every Finetime survivor is fully aware of the slugs, but Space 4Chan rejects 15 anyway. Which to me makes him washing his hands of the situation palatable: there's no way to help them with their consent, and if he forcibly saves them, well, then he just helped set up a Nazi space colony.

Critical differences being a) prejudice against 2nd Doctor arises from "he's a bit scruffy" (and implicit classism there) and "he's somewhere he's not meant to be", and b) the mistrust generally happens before the monsters are prevalent.

Interesting to compare to how many Second Doctor Base Under Siege stories play out (especially Macra Terror, which D&B reminds me of). There he shows up and tends to be mistrusted at first, but people generally come around once they become aware that there really are monsters and he really can help.

(Indeed, the attraction of my theory isn't that I'm saying "He's not incompetent, he's evil" - I'm saying "he's evil AND he's incompetent".)

Attractive though Hanlon's Razor often is, I am reluctant to apply it to Tories due to the sheer number of them who rely on "Bloo hoo hoo, I am but a poor feckless bumbler" to skate by (see: Johnson).

Arthur's razor: never take the high road when there's a chance to kick the Tory front bench.