Editorial – December 2025

Well, that was a bit shorter than usual, but I have reviewed a whole four novels. Go me!

Of course I never get as much done over the holiday period that I imagine I will. That’s partly because I spend too much time cooking and eating, and partly because once I start to relax I don’t have the energy for anything. Maybe if Christmas was several months long instead of a week I might get caught up. But Santa never manages to bring me that little request.

Given that this issue is going to go out around New Year, I suppose I should say something profound. I checked back to see what I did last year, but of course I don’t normally do a December issue. This one is only happening because I have got so few issues out in the past year.

It would be ridiculous to say that I am looking forward to 2026. Sure I have a lot of great stuff planned for Wizard’s Tower, which I hope very much that you will enjoy. But the legal situation for trans people in the UK is likely to get much worse in the coming year. Forced de-transition is already happening in England thanks to changes to NHS England regulations which make it very difficult for trans people to get their hormone prescriptions. We are safer here in Wales, but the national media is determined to engineer a Reform win in May’s Senedd elections, and if that happens one of the first things they are likely to do is scrap devolution.

I shall be doing my best to ensure that Wales remains free of Fascism, and hopefully we will see a new government led by Plaid Cymru. But if we don’t there isn’t a lot I can do. In the immortal words of Commander Peter Quincy Taggart: “Never Give Up! Never Surrender!”