- Webcurios 09/11/18 - Reading Time: 34 minutes Well thank GOD that’s all done with – the culture wars are over! AHAHAHAHAHAHA NO THEY ARE NOT THEY WILL NEVER END! As we move into a new reality, one in which the ostensibly simple fact of a press conference can usher in a spittle flecked debate about the very nature of truth, it dawned…
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- Webcurios 02/11/18 - Reading Time: 34 minutes I know this has been a tricky week, with all sorts of stress and pain and difficulty and quite a lot of general ‘wow, everything seems really quite messy and terrible, doesn’t it?’-type vibes knocking about, but, well, I have spent much of it being a digital cowboy and frankly that’s been enough to ensure…
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- Webcurios 19/10/18 - Reading Time: 30 minutes Does this mean we now have to stop lauding the Saudi regime for its incredibly progressive decision to let women drive cars? Does this mean that they’re the bad guys again? What? They were always the bad guys? GOD IT’S ALL JUST SO HARD. Welcome to yet another week in which once again we have been shown…
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- Webcurios 12/10/18 - Reading Time: 32 minutes Can we all agree that noone is ever allowed to use the term ‘4-dimensional chess’ ever again, even ironically? Good, at least we can agree on something. You know, one of the worst things about writing this godawful newsletterblogthing is the fact that I painted myself into a corner a few years ago by creating a…
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- Webcurios 13/07/18 - Reading Time: 29 minutes Oh Christ. What a MESS. Look, let’s focus on the positives – the kids got rescued! What else? Eh? Oh. Sorry everyone, I have literally NOTHING else today – it’s all just TOO MUCH (and I have a lunch to get to, then theatre with a godchild, and then dinner with my girlfriend and then…
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- Webcurios 15/06/18 - Reading Time: 31 minutes Another BIG step towards full dystopia this week – you don’t need me to list all the reasons, but my favourite “Christ, we really are living in a poorly-crafted miserable future novel from the mid-1990s” moment came with this Twitter thread which, amidst all the furore over Don’n’Kim, really is worth reading. Otherwise though it’s been more…
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- Webcurios 08/06/18 - Reading Time: 26 minutes HAHAHA BORIS! HAHAHAHA DAVID! HAHAHAHA ISN’T IT FUNNY! ALL THIS INCOMPETENCE AND INFIGHTING AND BACKSTABBING AND MACHINATING AND No, it’s not, is it, really? It’s boring and tedious and childish. WHY IS EVERYONE – AND I MEAN SEEMINGLY EVERYONE, GLOBALLY – WHO PURSUES POLITICAL OFFICE SUCH A COMPLETE FCUKING CNUT? I mean, it’s a rhetorical…
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- Webcurios 01/06/18 - Reading Time: 28 minutes Even by the standards of 2018, this has been an absolute ROLLERCOASTER of a week. A Government falls in Spain, one stumbles and maybe gets back on its feet in Italy (but if it makes it to Christmas I will personally be AMAZED), Don met Kim, a Ukrainian journalist came back from the dead, and…
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- Webcurios 11/05/18 - Reading Time: 30 minutes I went to the seaside last weekend. It was LOVELY, apart from the racist graffiti (residents of Broadstairs – you’re right, it is OK to be white, and literally NOONE is attempting to tell you otherwise! I promise! Also, looking around, I’m not 100% convinced that it’s you who need to worry about being unwelcome) and the…
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- Webcurios 04/05/18 - Reading Time: 10 minutes HELLO AGAIN EVERYONE! After a brief hiatus born of my having the selfish temerity to step away from the web for a long weekend – did you take care of it? is it ok? I worry, you know – Web Curios is back, ready to almost immediately clock off again as we look forward to celebrating…
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