XANTHE'S
STAMP MAGAZINE

Happy New Year everyone! The first Royal Mail issue of 2026 has been announced and it will be issued next Tuesday (13th January) but don't get too excited, it's about another American TV series. Most of us will have heard about Stranger Things . It's been a big thing on Netflix. It's all people are yapping about at my school this week because the finale was apparently really good. I haven't actually watched any of it so I can't judge how good it is but should even an absolu

For the last few months I've been reviewing new stamp issues from Great Britain, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and occasionally anywhere else that has an eye-catching or interesting new release. At the end of the year, I've looked back over the scores I have given and created a league table. It is definitely interesting! Because of my ratings give a score in six different categories, it doesn't always follow that the stamps I like least are at the bottom - there was on

I haven't reviewed many new issues recently and that is because there haven't been many new issues! Once the Christmas stamps are out that usually is the end of new issues for the year. I have reviewed most of this year's Christmas issues here. However, there have been one or two new issues that have nothing to do with Christmas including this from Serbia, which was released on 8th December. It is very different and I thought it deserved a review. The stamps show Serbia's fem