- Webcurios 15/11/24 - Reading Time: 36 minutes On Saturday night I went to the pub for my friend Nick’s birthday, and happened to meet a group of football fans who supported Swindon Town FC, the team of the town where I grew up (but, to be clear, I WAS NOT BORN THERE). When asked why they supported the team, despite not being…
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- Webcurios 08/11/24 - Reading Time: 34 minutes WELL. I know I say this after every big event, but you really don’t need or want my opinion on the US election and so I will spare you (see, don’t you wish other newsletters were this considerate?). Oh, ok, fine, apart from two specific, semi-related things. One, we really, really need to hope that…
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- Webcurios 01/11/24 - Reading Time: 35 minutes The world’s either going to get maybe, possibly, a tiny bit better next week, or it’s going to get LOADS worse – EXCITING, ISN’T IT? I don’t know about you, but part of me quite wants to be put into a medically-induced coma until America gets its sh1t together. I am still Matt, this is…
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- Webcurios 25/10/24 - Reading Time: 36 minutes It’s still, technically, Summer here in the UK, until Sunday morning at least – WHY AM I SO FCUKING COLD THEN? Yes, that’s right, we’ve reached that phase of the year when all I can seem to think about is how fcuking cold my fingers are when I am typing this fcuking thing, and whether…
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- Webcurios 18/10/24 - Reading Time: 34 minutes HELLO I AM BACK HELLO! What have YOU done with the past few weeks of your life? I have singularly failed to take a holiday of any sort (how does one take a holiday from oneself? No, not ‘acid’, tried that), or indeed to really stop looking at the internet, but I have caught up…
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- Webcurios 27/09/24 - Reading Time: 36 minutes It’s been astonishing this week to see exactly how badly a political party’s comms team can handle something – FOR FCUK’S SAKE, LABOUR PARTY COMMS PEOPLE, IT SHOULDN’T BE THIS DIFFICULT. Also, the past seven days’ succession of embarrassing revelations and gift-related gaffes have somehow managed to achieve the unthinkable and made me feel genuine…
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- Webcurios 20/09/24 - Reading Time: 33 minutes I ought to be in Slovenia right now, hanging out with nice internet people and thinking about nice internet things, but instead I am in my kitchen in London, in my pants, a bit tired and hungover and generally feeling quite resentful at the fact that things like ‘needing to earn money to eat’ have prevented…
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- Webcurios 13/09/24 - Reading Time: 33 minutes Sincere thanks to all of you who emailed me last week to, er, check that I wasn’t about to do some sort of internet-induced harm to myself – don’t worry! If I do *that* I’ll put the livestream link in that week’s Curios so that ‘MY COMMUNITY’ can join in the fun! (seriously though, it’s…
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- Webcurios 06/09/24 - Reading Time: 36 minutes I went to the seaside last weekend, to visit an old friend of mine who lives there with his partner and child, and who has an allotment, and who is pretty much the least-online person I know, and I looked at his life and thought ‘yeah, ok, fine, leaving aside the kid, I am…jealous?’ For…
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- Webcurios 30/08/24 - Reading Time: 34 minutes HAPPY LAST FRIDAY IN AUGUST, EVERYONE! That’s right – it’s basically all over, it’s all mist and mellow fruitfulness from hereon in (apart from those of you reading this in the antipodes – thanks Rosie! Does this satisfy your hubris?), but thankfully this edition of Curios is PACKED FULL OF SUNSHINE and will possibly extend…
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