- Webcurios 05/06/26 - Reading Time: 41 minutes Is it now a *thing*? Do we have to accept that we now live in an era in which every time the mercury tips past 30 degrees a significant portion of the population decide that the only possible response is to do a race riot? Yes, it’s been another great (not great, fcuking terrible)…
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- Webcurios 22/05/26 - Reading Time: 42 minutes It has been, fair to say, something of a week between work and LIFE and things, and, look, this is one of those times when I simply can’t bring myself to care either about the fcuking byelection or the fcuking England squad (in fact, honestly, for perhaps the first time in my life I…
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- Webcurios 15/05/26 - Reading Time: 44 minutes IT’S ON! HE’S RUNNING! OH GOD THE EXCITEMENT! Fcuk’s sake everyone, we have WEEKS of this to come, WEEKS OF IT. Can we add ‘tediously drawn-out periods ahead of leadership elections’ to ‘Christmas’ on my personal list of ‘things I would quite like to be drugged so that I can sleep through the entirety…
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- Webcurios 08/05/26 - Reading Time: 44 minutes Well, even in its partially incomplete form that’s a, er, miserable-looking set of electoral results, isn’t it? Good to see, based on the extent to which the Reform vote maps closely to the Brexit vote, that you CAN in fact fool people twice! Well done everyone! Well done! Anyway, that’s all too miserable to…
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- Webcurios 24/04/26 - Reading Time: 35 minutes Look, I’ll level with you – I have gotten to the end of the links and…I have emptied my brain. Literally. There is NOTHING LEFT between these ears of mine, and what you’re getting now is just the last few dregs of thought guttering through the pipes and down my fingers. SOMETIMES THAT’S JUST…
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- Webcurios 17/04/26 - Reading Time: 36 minutes POOR KEIR. There he was thinking that a bit of being statesmanlike on the international stage might have extended his tenure into late 2026, maybe even 2027, and then up pops Mandy once again to fcuk him sideways and make it increasingly likely that the Labour Party’s abject humiliation in the upcoming local elections…
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- Webcurios 10/04/26 - Reading Time: 40 minutes Cast your minds back, if you will, to January and the first Curios of the year, which I opened with the line: “Oh hello! Welcome back to the new season of the long-running popular reality series ‘What The Fcuk Happened While I Was Asleep And How Is It Going To Conspire To Fcuk My…
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- Webcurios 27/03/26 - Reading Time: 37 minutes It does rather feel that the current situation in the Middle East, and the weird diplomatic gavotte that is currently happening around it, would be genuinely quite funny were it happening to another species on another planet. “Look!”, we would say, pointing and laughing, “look at the morons, ruining themselves with idiocy and venality,…
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- Webcurios 20/03/26 - Reading Time: 36 minutes Hello! Do you remember the last time that everything *didn’t* feel like it was teetering on the verge of total collapse? No, me neither; EXCITING, ISN’T IT? Anyway, here we are again in a situation where, thanks to the actions of a few disproportionately powerful people with very, very vested interests, a significant proportion…
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- Webcurios 13/03/26 - Reading Time: 39 minutes I take ONE Friday off and I come back to the beginnings of World War III – look, obviously correlation is not causation, but I am never taking another week off EVER AGAIN lest it lead to armageddon or something (this is obviously a joke, like I care about armageddon; see you on the…
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