Lack of evidence for life on a far-off planet we can't get to is a LOT easier to explain ("we can't go there") than lack of evidence for a large primate living in a country full of cameras where people actively go looking for the thing ("government's covering up Bigfoot for reasons").

Yeah, everything else is what I'd expect, less than a third to less than a quarter believing in various things with no real evidence for existing but that people have heard of - but Aliens at only a bit over half, when all that involves is going "lot of planets up there"?

True, his "yes well free speech" defence can't be dropped when that's the centre of things now

also, talk of 70s imperial views and then " officially, but with a crew of the discredited and criminal, under a flag of convenience, and his mission is – or turns out to be – a suicide run" - DAN DARE'S THE WILD GEESE! Off with a merc gang to get Sondar back to Venus but they're betrayed!

I'm left wondering if maybe a more retro old-school Dan Dare would've better able to knock off Star Wars (itself a pulpy throwback): wide-eyed boys' own, a big nasty panto-space-villain, going to strange new worlds etc. It wouldn't have quite worked as 1-to-1 but I can see how someone would try

I THINK it's the flag used for Britain in Dredd's Luna-Olympics

ending with Rimmer no longer having daddy issues and thinking he's a Working Class Hero now does feel like a point to end the character (more so, really, than "and then he became the new Ace Rimmer")

Wonder if he'll pivot to "I did bad things as a youth and I have changed - anyway, let's all talk about stopping foreigners have leave to live here"

You need to have this sort of thing sorted if you're going to try and go "so that thing that's historically treated as a key part of liberty and freedom in this country & makes us better than other countries, well maybe--", so good luck with that, guys. Give up and quietly bin it now, save time.

It looks a bit awkward that the government's going to have to argue "it'll be fine without juries but also, the _important_ cases (and the ones that are Public Interest) still have juries". Someone can make an argument for this being coherent, is that someone working in the government?

Urg. I don;t think you'd have even seen that in an article written at the start of this year

"Hey, what's up, Darth, I was fast asleep on my bed"

Oh no someone who is not me called Judge Pal!!

pssst I hear you're the guy for comics & coffee with the sweet stuff, PS I'm not a Wally Squad