- Webcurios 07/03/25 - Reading Time: 37 minutes Last night, for the second time in my life, I found myself taking my trousers off in front of a few hundred people at a theatre in Soho (I was not being paid for this). It feels unfair that this should happen twice to be honest, and I am starting to suspect some sort of…
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- Webcurios 28/02/25 - Reading Time: 37 minutes IT IS PRACTICALLY SPRINGTIME! THE WORST IS OVER! Except, of course, spring doesn’t technically start in the UK for another three weeks – and lol! The worst is very much yet to come! But, well, let’s not dwell on these HARD TRUTHS – instead join me in staring out of the window at that mysterious…
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- Webcurios 21/02/25 - Reading Time: 39 minutes Last weekend I went to watch non-league football at Canvey Island. I don’t really feel I should write about it too much in this newsletter other than to say ‘I do not, in all honesty, recommend that you spend a Saturday in February watching non-league football at Canvey Island’, but I would like to say…
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- Webcurios 14/02/25 - Reading Time: 37 minutes HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY EVERYONE! I assume all your digital cards to me are currently stuck in the ether somewhere and will all arrive together in due course – consider this my personal, amorous missive to each of YOU, for what could motivate a man to set aside so much time and effort every week for…
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- Webcurios 07/02/25 - Reading Time: 35 minutes I went to the theatre to see Oedipus this week with my friend Jay (thanks Jay!), and there was a moment towards the end of the show where the climactic, pivotal fact that (and I don’t think I’m spoiling anything here) Oedipus had in fact fcuked his mum ELICITED ACTUAL SHOCKED GASPS FROM THE AUDIENCE. How?…
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- Webcurios 31/01/25 - Reading Time: 36 minutes Look, for some reason I slept genuinely-appallingly last night and as such this has been written pretty much entirely in a sort of fugue-state; I’m going to have to forego any attempt at a ‘comedy’ intro and restrict myself to saying that I started reading ‘My First Book’ by Honor Levy yesterday (on Jamillah Knight’s recommendation,…
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- Webcurios 24/01/25 - Reading Time: 36 minutes Had you missed this? The feeling of being basically sandblasted in the face by a sort of fecal whirlwind? WE’RE SO BACK BABY! You know those photos they always release at the end of a storied leader’s tenure showing the ageing effect the weight of office has had on them? Well imagine what WE’RE going…
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- Webcurios 17/01/25 - Reading Time: 35 minutes I hope all of you who’ve sent me complaining messages about there being ‘too much AI stuff’ in Curios over the past few years are feeling suitably-chastened now that Sir Keir’s going to MAINLINE IT INTO THE NATION’S VEINS. Whether or not intravenous injection was necessarily the right analogy for the forced introduction of a…
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- Webcurios 10/01/25 - Reading Time: 35 minutes New year, new worries, same old Web Curios! Even in the maelstrom of moderately-unsettling uncertainty that is Q2 of the 21st Century, rest assured that I am once again here to greet you with open arms, a tear-streaked face and a hug that you will initially find welcoming but will, as it continues without showing…
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- Webcurios 20/12/24 - Reading Time: 33 minutes AND SO, WE CAME TO THE END. 44 editions of Web Curios, roughly 3,500 links, 400k-odd words (fcuking HELL though) and here we find ourselves, on the cusp of entering the second quarter of the first century of the third millennium of recorded time, with supposedly-educated residents of one of the world’s richest and most…
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