Sam's Good Stuff

The Phones Have Made Parenting Easy

There's now only one thing you need to do

Aug 15 • 

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A Duck That Dreamed

Many of you readers (i.e.

Aug 1 • 

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July 2025

The Countersignal Sandwich

While the elbows-out technocrats of tomorrow fell out the office to grab their Lebanese lunchboxes and Korean kimchi noodles, I stayed put, only to be…

Jul 18 • 

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The Servantless Cook

In which the author explains how you can be a better host

Jul 4 • 

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June 2025

Slumdog Millionaire Shortbread

Shantaram is the semi-autobiographical account of life in Bombay’s underbelly, and the infamous literary fire-starter that fueled a thousand gap year…

Jun 20 • 

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Incel Minestrone

Taking These Things Seriously (Finally)

Jun 6 • 

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March 2023

How Not To Miss Your Wife's Labour

The baby was due a week ago and each day since we have awoken tense that it may appear and laid down to sleep disappointed that it hasn’t.

Mar 2, 2023 • 

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February 2023

Cooking Oil Has Been Cancelled

Cooking oil has attracted the focus of public outrage this week after being purported to be deeply hydrophobic.

Feb 15, 2023 • 

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Predicting If Dinner Will Be Good Pt. 2

In pt.

Feb 8, 2023 • 

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January 2023

A Giant Yellow Cat That Is Also A Bus

The stage adaptation of My Neighbour Totoro begins with two children and their father moving into a countryside house, while the mother is dying (/maybe…

Jan 30, 2023 • 

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Predicting If Dinner Will Be Good pt.1

Can you predict the future?

Jan 23, 2023 • 

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Motivations

This post takes a different tact to usual, and will be a slightly self-indulgent piece (ok so maybe not too different) looking at this newsletter’s…

Jan 13, 2023 • 

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