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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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  • Webcurios 27/02/26 - Reading Time: 40 minutes   A PLEASING ELECTORAL RESULT IN THE UK! A bloody nose for the Government, a victory for progressive, left-wing politics and no victory for the racist crew! AND the Tories got properly humiliated TRULY, WE ARE BLESSED! Let’s not think too hard about what this might translate to nationally, or how this morning’s rhetoric already…

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  • Webcurios 20/02/26 - Reading Time: 37 minutes   REJOICE, FOR THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE ARE GRINDING! Except, maybe, don’t rejoice just yet, because a) he’s on the hook for state secrets stuff, not international paedo cabal stuff; and b) he might be a horrible, dismally-thick, potentially-rapey cnut, Prince Andrew, but he’s a horrible, dismally-thick, potentially-rapey cnut who can still afford very high-quality…

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  • Webcurios 13/02/26 - Reading Time: 41 minutes   I have spent most of this week feeling REALLY QUITE ILL, but rather than tell you about that, which is miserable, or offering you WOT I THINK about the world, which is also miserable, I thought I might instead tell you a nice, heartwarming anecdote from when I was out last weekend. Although, actually,…

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  • Webcurios 06/02/26 - Reading Time: 39 minutes   I appreciate that, in the grand scheme of things, to complain about the Epstein Files’ impact on contemporary British politics is perhaps to miss the point rather, and I obviously have no desire to minimise any of the Really Bad Stuff, but, well, the thing I feel most irked about as of RIGHT NOW…

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  • Webcurios 30/01/26 - Reading Time: 39 minutes   FRIENDSHIP ENDED WITH DONALD, NOW XI IS MY BEST FRIEND! Except, of course, the UK is not in any way a significant enough country in any material sense in 2026 for us to be in any position to determine who and who isn’t our friend – lol, like we have those luxuries any more!…

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  • Webcurios 23/01/26 - Reading Time: 38 minutes   Ok, it has been A WEEK and, honestly, right now what I really want to do most of all is to close my laptop and Stop Internetting for a bit – and so that is what I am going to do. BUT! Not before I have taken a moment to recommend something to any…

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  • Webcurios 16/01/26 - Reading Time: 38 minutes   I went to the ballet last night for the first time in my life and, honestly, it was AMAZING. Am I…am I now CULTURALLY MATURE? The following collection of words and links would strongly suggest that I am not, but I can very much attest to the fact that watching people do the whole…

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  • Webcurios 09/01/26 - Reading Time: 37 minutes 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 Sh1t Up?’! Yes, that’s right, after that weird period where we all pretended that everything was going to slow down, someone has cranked…

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