Zine Review: Sue Grey’s Partygate Report or the Case of the Forbidden Jamborees⁣ By Henry Hardwicke Carruthers⁣ @yourdadsatory ⁣ An envelope addressed to me contains an A5 pamphlet bearing the Cabinet Office logo & the words ‘Investigation’, ‘Alleged Gatherings,’ & ‘COVID’. I totally panicked. Had my housemates done something without me realising? We were pretty on top of following the rules. & why is it addressed just to me if something happened in our house? The illustration of a cake on the cover should have given it away (& perhaps it says something about my faith in the governments comms that it didn’t) but after reading the title a few more times, ‘Investigation Into Alleged Gatherings On Government Premises During COVID Restrictions,’ I remembered that I was expecting a zine in the form of a parody of Sue Grey’s Partygate inquiry report. Sorry to my darling housemates for doubting you; honestly I blame the paper stock this is printed on. Very convincing. ⁣ ⁣ Impressive for its density of content, this zine is a meta arrangement of forms: a parody of a Cabinet Office published investigation which is a parody of a psychiatric research paper into a mass hallucination event that took place in 2020-21 called ‘The Pfeffel Effect’ which prefaces a fully fledged roleplaying game supposedly authored by BJ himself, complete with rules, character cards, clues & scenarios. This might sound overwhelming but it actually reads totally clearly, and is hilarious. Henry’s experience working as a civil servant & the obvious detail to which he understands the whole shitshow of governement gives the whole thing an edge that easily could have been missing if executed by someone else. ⁣ ⁣ cont. in comments ID in comments 🔥 got a zine you want us to review? get in touch! 🔥