- Webcurios 19/05/23 - Reading Time: 33 minutes I went to Alton Towers yesterday. It was BRILLIANT – honestly, pro-tip, a midweek April/May visit outside of school holidays is ideal, 10m queue times and minimal hordes – but as a result now feel like I have been trampled by several herds of variously-sized ruminants (things nooone tells you about getting old – your…
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- Webcurios 12/05/23 - Reading Time: 34 minutes HELLO EVERYONE HELLO! Well, we have a new king, but more importantly we have NEW KNOWLEDGE – specifically, we learned that there is literally NOTHING that the UK is hornier for, sexually or electorally, than a middle-aged woman carrying a ceremonial sword. Were it possible for an entire nation to undergo psychotherapy I would be…
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- Webcurios 05/05/23 - Reading Time: 37 minutes HAPPY FORELOCK-TUGGING HOLIDAY! I once worked at Buckingham Palace, you know (apologies if I’ve bored you with this before) – they used to advertise Summer jobs in the Guardian back in the day (THE IRONY), and as a result I spent two genuinely-enjoyable months working in the gift shop and the ticket office (you can…
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- Webcurios 28/04/23 - Reading Time: 37 minutes Hello! Happy Friday! IT’S A BANK HOLIDAY! I know that they’re ten-a-penny this year, but this feels like a good one, mainly because at no point is anyone going to try and persuade me that the coronation is A Good Thing or indeed that any of the people present at it shouldn’t in fact be…
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- Webcurios 21/04/23 - Reading Time: 32 minutes Happy Friday everyone! Unless you worked for Buzzfeed News, in which case it’s probably quite a rubbish Friday – sorry about that. (Brief aside about Buzzfeed News – reading Peretti’s statement from yesterday in which he said that he didn’t think it was possible to make a business from journalism anymore – maybe, Jonah, just…
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- Webcurios 14/04/23 - Reading Time: 37 minutes HELLO EVERYONE WELCOME TO ANOTHER WEB CURIOS DID YOU HAVE A NICE TIME THIS EASTER OH THAT’S NICE GOOD. Ahem. Are you well? Did you manage to avoid either crucifixion or the acquisition of chocolate-related type-2 diabetes? GREAT! I am in something of a hurry what with having to get to lunch and it being…
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- Webcurios 31/03/23 - Reading Time: 34 minutes It’s Friday, it’s lunchtime, it’s practically the holidays and I just bought Arab Strap tickets – ALL IS RIGHT WITH THE WORLD! It’s not, of course – everything’s a benighted mess and liable to get worse before it gets better or, more accurately, we all die! – but let’s pretend otherwise as we, the Web…
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- Webcurios 24/03/23 - Reading Time: 34 minutes Hello! Hi! How are you? I am TIRED (you didn’t ask, but seeing as you’re here…) having done a 60h round trip to Italy which involved signing documents in 87 separate places (I counted, and this is not an exaggeration) to the point where the final signature looked nothing like the initial one and my…
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- Webcurios 17/03/23 - Reading Time: 38 minutes It does rather feel that The Onion ought to create a version of their ‘another mass shooting’ story for banking crises, doesn’t it? ““We don’t understand how the invisible hand failed to sort our mess out!”, screams only industry still holding faith in the invisible hand”, or perhaps something, you know, better. Meanwhile it’s been…
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- Webcurios 10/03/23 - Reading Time: 36 minutes Do you feel UNDER THREAT? Do you feel like your sovereignty and security is being compromised by a bunch of poor fcuks so desperate to escape their current circumstances that they’re willing to risk life and limb to end up in THIS fcuking country? Do you believe that a certain BBC sports presenter shouldn’t have…
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