- Webcurios 23/10/26 - Reading Time: 35 minutes I went to Thorpe Park on Monday with a godchild of mine – Thorpe Park is great, rollercoasters are ace, etc etc, but my main takeaway from the day was ‘wow are there an awful lot of young people in 2026 who have taken early-00s ‘Fred Durst’ as their fashion inspiration’ (that and “I…
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- Webcurios 16/10/26 - Reading Time: 37 minutes While I appreciate you are all REELING from the latest revelations suggesting that Reform UK’s membership might in fact comprise SOME ACTUAL RACISTS, I had quite a weird experience this week which I am going to share with you instead of Doing Commentary (you’re welcome!). So as a result of Google’s slightly odd mechanics,…
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- Webcurios 09/10/26 - Reading Time: 38 minutes WHY HELLO AGAIN HELLO! I *missed* you! No, really, I did; I even woke up at 6am last Friday in a sweaty panic that I had a Curios to write and no links to fill it with – this is my internal life, you see, SO RICH!! – and, well, what more proof do…
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- Webcurios 25/09/26 - Reading Time: 34 minutes While I imagine that most of you delete this email unthinkingly every time it crops up in your inbox – no, really, I don’t mind, I know you’re busy and this is only the textual expression of my very soul you’re ignoring, don’t worry about it! – I like to imagine that there are…
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- Webcurios 18/09/26 - Reading Time: 40 minutes WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE! Well, of course we are, this isn’t news, but thanks to AI – or at least the imaginary version currently taking up the space left by the Silicon Valley brainworms – it seems that the entirety of the media and political classes have decided to spend the past week…
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- Webcurios 11/09/26 - Reading Time: 41 minutes It is frankly terrifying to me that we are 14 years from Danny Dyer’s seminal 11-year anniversary commemoration of 11/9 (look, it’s been 25 years, let’s reclaim the fcuking date structure shall we?) – SO LIKE SANDS THROUGH THE HOURGLASS ARE THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES, EH??? Anyway, I went to Helsinki (my main…
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- Webcurios 28/08/26 - Reading Time: 38 minutes Hm, it does rather feel that Summer is now OVER – not, to be clear, that I am complaining about the fact that it is no longer threemillion degrees, but there’s been a feeling this week of the world rather rolling its sleeves up again and preparing to Get On With Sh1t, for better…
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- Webcurios 21/08/26 - Reading Time: 37 minutes Got to be honest, it has been a genuinely HORRIBLE week in Discourse Land, specifically the UK bit of it, and I have had quite enough of the web for the moment. I am off to do Good Works (and eat jerk chicken) in Catford – you amuse yourself with this week’s links, which are…
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- Webcurios 14/08/26 - Reading Time: 37 minutes Did any of you feel a strange, almost-irresistible desire to stare at the sun on Wednesday? No? Oh, ok, fine. Anyway, it was a genuinely lovely moment here in London as people flooded the streets and did the unthinkable, talking and even smiling at strangers as though, I don’t know, we were a COMMUNITY…
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- Webcurios 07/08/26 - Reading Time: 41 minutes I am approximately 38 minutes away from one of my godchildren showing up and demanding to be fed and, presumably, entertained (I plan on showing them Web Curios and then going to the pub, alone); as such, we’re once again cutting the intro short this week because, well, I really don’t still want to…
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