- 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: 36 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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- Webcurios 31/07/26 - Reading Time: 36 minutes You know what I learned during my recent trip to Rome? That 40 degrees is TOO HOT. Also, that the city’s state apparatus is so fcuked for money that when you go to the council offices they literally have signs up saying “WE DO NOT HAVE ANY PENS”, which struck me as quietly tragic…
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- Webcurios 17/07/26 - Reading Time: 40 minutes Can I offer you a piece of advice? Next time it’s incredibly hot, if someone suggests to you that you spend nine hours at a dayrave, taking place in what are effectively two massive car parks surrounded by concrete walls, that instead of enthusiastically saying “yes please!” and overexcitedly getting On It you instead…
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- Webcurios 10/07/26 - Reading Time: 43 minutes Can we not, please, have a month or so off? I know that the political and media classes in the UK are addicted to CAMPAIGNING – governing, not so much! – but, Jesus, can it not just STOP for a bit? Anyway, you can get all your news about the HILARIOUS contest between a…
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- Webcurios 03/07/26 - Reading Time: 44 minutes Does it feel like a good idea to encourage a country with a not-insignificantly-problematic relationship to booze, a general vibe that might best be described as ‘a bit febrile’, and where the link between ‘poor national team performance’ and ‘really horrible spikes in all sorts of violence, not least domestic’, is PRETTY FCUKING CLEAR,…
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- Webcurios 26/06/26 - Reading Time: 39 minutes Yes, it has been warm. Welcome to the rest of your lives, fcukos – to paraphrase the excellent song, “we were the generation which decided we needed everything now, all the time, and refused to compromise on our desires, and we get what we deserve.” BUT! You don’t come here for climate doomerism! You…
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- Webcurios 19/06/26 - Reading Time: 37 minutes ANDY IS COMING! ANDY WILL SAVE US! ANDY WILL MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER! Yes, that’s right, thanks to Labour’s byelection victory overnight we can now look forward to several weeks more tedious Westminster soap opera as two incredibly-unpopular men compete with one soon-to-be-incredibly-unpopular man to see who gets the questionable honour of dragging this country…
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