- Webcurios 14/07/23 - Reading Time: 38 minutes Hi! I’m back! Has…has anything been happening? Did I miss anything? LOL JK! Sadly I missed NOTHING – one of the side effects of being an occasional pseudo-journalist (not this, to be clear – I promise you I am under no illusions as to what THIS is, and it’s certainly not journalism) is that holidays…
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- Webcurios 23/06/23 - Reading Time: 31 minutes HELLO EVERYONE HELLO! I am always reminded around this time of year of that time approximately nine years ago, when I was still working at Hill+Knowlton and Web Curios was (remarkably) published on the company’s actual, proper corporate website, and I chose to open a late-June edition with a riff about how I was alone…
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- Webcurios 16/06/23 - Reading Time: 35 minutes It has, it’s fair to say, been something of a trying week for stumpy-fingered populists. More than enough ink has been spilt on That Fcuking Man and the parties and the lies (and my thoughts on him remain unchanged); a similar amount continues to be spaffed on That Other Fcuking Man and whether or not…
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- Webcurios 09/06/23 - Reading Time: 31 minutes It’s ok, everyone, you can stop worrying about the killer future AIs – RISHI AND JOE ARE SORTING IT! Of course, as any fule kno, the main reason you should stop worrying about the killer future AIs is because they’re significantly less of a problem than non-killer present AIs, which are currently being wrangled by…
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- Webcurios 02/06/23 - Reading Time: 35 minutes One of the side effects of writing Curios (other than a generally unhealthy posture and attitude towards my fellow man, RSI, chronically-stained teeth as a result of approximately seventeen daily litres of very strong tea and a complete inability to ever really ‘switch off’ to any meaningful degree) is that, despite having a media diet…
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- Webcurios 26/05/23 - Reading Time: 31 minutes HELLO EVERYONE WELCOME TO WEB CURIOS IT IS FRIDAY HOW ARE YOU? Oh. Sorry. Still, for those of us in the UK it’s yet another three-day weekend (as I believe it is for those of you residing in North America), so hopefully the illusion of freedom will cure at least a bit of what ails…
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- 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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