Webcurios 16/10/26

Reading Time: 37 minutes While I appreciate you are all REELING from the latest revelations suggesting that Reform UK’s membership might in fact comprise SOME ACTUAL RACISTS, I had quite a weird experience this week which I am going to share with you instead of Doing Commentary (you’re welcome!). So as a result of Google’s slightly odd mechanics, I occasionally get emails meant for Other Matt Muirs around the world – this is how I have learned that there are lots of Muirs in New Zealand, for example, or how I discovered that there is a version of me who is a filmmaker and yet another who is a tattoo artist (truly, Matt Muirs are a RICH TAPESTRY). It’s also how I discovered that there’s a Matt Muir in the US who has been a BAD BOY and is up on a DUI charge in Duchesne County, Utah. Now ordinarily this wouldn’t concern me – you do the crime, you should do the time, Other Matt Muir! – but I realised that I was receiving ALL of the correspondence about my namesake’s upcoming court…