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Webcurios 13/09/24

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Published: September 13, 2024 06:23

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…

Webcurios 06/09/24

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Published: September 6, 2024 06:23

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…

Webcurios 30/08/24

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Published: August 30, 2024 06:23

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…

Webcurios 23/08/24

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Published: August 23, 2024 06:23

Reading Time: 37 minutes So it turns out that going clubbing is still fun, even in middle age! Ok, so I still feel a *bit* like someone has scooped out all my innards and replaced them with sawdust and nails, and I’m hoping the ringing in my ears will…

Webcurios 16/08/24

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Published: August 16, 2024 06:23

Reading Time: 37 minutes Look, I need to be honest with you – I am VERY VERY TIRED. For reasons literally none of you need or want to know about, this has been a week of relatively-minimal shuteye and as such I have written what follows through a general…

Webcurios 09/08/24

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Published: August 9, 2024 06:23

Reading Time: 37 minutes Welcome to England, a country now reaching the ‘results’ stage of a decades-long experiment designed to answer the question ‘so what do you think happens to the social fabric of a nation when its inhabitants spend 20 years…

Webcurios 02/08/24

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Published: August 2, 2024 06:23

Reading Time: 32 minutes HELLO EVERYONE! Are you enjoying the Olympics? Or are you instead choosing to use it as an opportunity to pursue your single-minded fixation on incredibly complex questions of human biology? However you’ve chosen to spend your…

Webcurios 26/07/24

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Published: July 26, 2024 06:23

Reading Time: 36 minutes Hi everyone! Hi! Can…can we all please stop talking about the US election for a bit, please? There’s ages left and you’re not going to be able to keep this level of discourse up for another three months, unless he really DOES fcuk…

Webcurios 19/07/24

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Published: July 19, 2024 06:23

Reading Time: 36 minutes Propriety be damned, we’re allowed to feel a faint twinge of regret, right? Please take it upon yourselves to determine exactly which of last Sunday’s major news events I am referring to. Anyway, given the fact that the world’s…

Webcurios 12/07/24

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Published: July 12, 2024 06:23

Reading Time: 34 minutes Welcome, one and all, to the very first Web Curios EVER not to be written under a Conservative government! What do you mean ‘it all looks dispiritingly familiar, you’ve not even given the place a lick of paint ffs’?! Ok, so the…