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Id Software’s latest groundbreaking game doesn’t ship until Nov 3 this year, but advance screenshots suggest that the revolutionary Doom III game engine will be streets ahead of the competition. Advanced, sophisticated shader scripting combined with per-pixel lightmapping and ultra-high polycount modelling allow a level of realism hitherto unseen in the FPS genre.

In the game, you play the part of space marine Holden Freeman, sent to investigate an accident on the far-flung colony of EUtopia. As your ship sets down on the deserted launchpad, you hope for the best but expect the worst - and sure enough, you are not disappointed. It fast becomes apparent that a scientific experiment attempting to fuse free trade with the defence of liberty from communism has gone disastrously wrong. A portal between the free world and a dimension of authoritarian ghosts has opened up, and an army of undead ideological monsters is flooding through, and you are the only thing that stands between them and victory.

Blair is getting seriously worried about opposition to the proposed EU constitution, if his reaction and the reaction of his government to the rising criticism is anything to go by. Let’s face it: he’s never going to convince enough people that a document publicly referred to as a ‘constitution’ has no constitutional implications for Britain. But I do like the way he keeps bringing up the exit option, even if it is to describe it as “disastrous”; this reminds people that withdrawal is an option to think about.

And I’m not even going to get started on why withdrawal from the EU would not be remotely “disastrous”, on why this is a laughable claim, and on why Blair is a mendacious creep. Because you probably know the reasons for all three.

Josie Appleton savages UK Home Secretary David Blunkett’s Criminal Justice Bill:

Defendants’ rights matter in a civilised society, which has a particular view of the individual and the state - because we don’t know if the defendant did it; because he values his liberty; and because any of us could end up on the wrong side of the dock one day. Blunkett seems to treat ‘defendant’ as synonymous with ‘criminal’, and ‘justice’ as synonymous with ‘conviction’. He needs to get his definitions straight.

From http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DDC4.htm