Must be nice, my name is unique 😭

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Issue 19 is settling down for Saturday lunch with a bottle of perfectly decent Italian white wine.

This very funny piece by Ed Cumming is the perfect Saturday morning read

very funny 👏 Ed Cumming

Would actually read an entire series of people meeting others with the same name as them.

Just this sets a hell of a high bar. HOWLING

Not gonna fully dox myself but there are 13 people with my name who have a Wikipedia page

Buy The Fence Magazine and keep Ed Cumming eating.

The Fence Magazine when I introduced the editorial team at Gas Engineer Mag to the latest mag and everyone’s first impulse is to smell the ink and judge the paper stock. #magsolidarity

There is a very popular American politician called Charlie Baker, and there is a pretty unfunny British comedian called Charlie Baker, and then there is me.

I don't Google my full name anymore because they're all way more successful than me 😭

The only other living Joseph Hone was in the same year as me at university. He was tall, dark, and handsome, and a high-flying law student. Bastard.

The other, more successful UK media Alex Christian (Alex Christian) is rarely on this website, no correlation I’m sure

If the most famous Mark Thompson wants to meet for a chat, or spend a week doing a job swap, that'd be fun.

Shoutout to 'Felix the Pope' on here, an adult man who likes to post photos of himself wearing a nappy and pretending to be a baby. Not sure I will be taking him to lunch

There are a surprising number of David Shipleys, including an opera singer and an editor at the Washington Post. Perhaps we could play a game of doubles tennis.

Oh Ed, we are of course related too…

Shout out to Sophie Butcher (picture editor at the NYT) and Sophie Butcher (social editor at Empire)

Good read. Plus includes i newspaper lore.

I have only ever had Twitter interactions with the other Sophie Gallagher. Also a journalist. But (thankfully for my career) living in Australia.

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