While they may not be able to credibly threaten to defect to centre-right parties as retribution for their party's 'treachery,' this rightward (or liberalward) shift of Social Democratic parties seems to be precipitating the exodus of traditional left-wing voters to the xenophobic parties of the far right, such as Franc's National FGront (Front National, FN) or Germany's National Democratic Party (Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, NPD) or to far-left splinter parties, such as Germany's Labout and Social Justice — The Electoral Alternative (Arbeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit — Die Wahlalternative, WASF) and the Left Party (die Linke), which promise to uphold the social justice values that centre-left parties have 'abandoned.'

It is the last week of our French cinema run.

But some discussion of the complex relationship between “allohistory” and sf is appropriate here, as the genres overlap in certain ways. Classical allohistory— such as Trevelyan's What if Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo? and Churchill's If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg —is a rigorously consistent thought-experiment in historical causality.

British artificial intelligence company BenevolentAI has announced its partnership with charity group Action Against Age-related macular degeneration (AAA) to develop treatments for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in adults in the UK.