David Whitehouse

Hold the Phone

On 11 September, 2001, a nurse was texting saucy messages to thousands of strangers across the country. But the nurse was really a 21-year-old man, bored in an office in London. We hear his story.
Georgia Brown

Borstal Boys

A personal history of the borstal in Britain: a century of incarcerated children.
Anonymous

Hotel Britannica

An anonymous report from a clinician working inside one of Britain’s asylum hotels.
Miles Ellingham & Cormac Kehoe

Speaking in Small Tongues

An oil trader and an Old Etonian with a genius for PR, was Justin Welby the worst Archbishop of Canterbury since Thomas Arundel?
Natalie Berry

In the Shadow of the Mountain

One British family produced two legendary climbers who summitted mountains in the Alps and the Himalayas. This is their story.
The Fence

The Grantham Anthem

Kieran Morris and Fergus Butler-Gallie are both obsessed with the Iron Lady, so they took the train to Lincolnshire for a Thatcher-fuelled day out.
Francesca Bratton

This Turbulent Priest

Cake and coffee with Pat Buckley, a whistleblower; ex-priest; newspaper columnist; gay rights activist; HIV activist; husband; and the scourge, in his own words, ‘of everyone’.
Max Daly

A Hackney Story

In the early 2000s, Clapton was the scene of a spate of public shootings, often conducted in broad daylight. The area earned the tabloid sobriquet ‘Murder Mile’. But who was behind the violence?

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Geoff Dyer

Failure to Turn

The majordomo of literary non-fiction meditates upon his mortality, his ear hair, and his complicated feelings toward the oeuvre of Luca Guadagnino.
Nesrine Malik

Elder States, Man

To spend your life online is to live at one remove from reality – stand back too far, and you might find the years speeding by before your eyes.
Róisín Lanigan

The Chic Young Divorcée

Making a swift 180 down the aisle.
Harriet Rix

Lost in the Woods

Guy Shrubsole’s schemes have the potential to unleash havoc in the British countryside.
Richard Woodall

The View from Mount Olympus

2012’s Summer Olympics were a harbinger of the dreadful decade to come.
Fergus Butler-Gallie

At the Altar of Capital

How the Conservative Party lost their religion to the pull of the market.
Richard Smyth

The State of Nature

A classic treatise against men writing about the natural world.
Séamas O’Reilly

FBPE Fantasia

Unpicking the last four years of Remaniac delusions.

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Miles Ellingham & Cormac Kehoe

The Buddha of Siberia

Today, Evgeny Lebedev sees himself as London's media mogul du jour. Once, he was just the nepo baby of former KGB agent.
Clive Martin

Giving it the Big One

In the heart of the east end of London, a memorial is held to Dave Courtney, the city's celebrity gangster. Clive Martin raises a glass to a legend.
Isobel Thompson

The Show Must Go On

Travelling Showmen in the Vale of Health.
Archie Cornish

Winter on the Fens

A meeting with a remarkable woman hoping to revive an almost unknown British sport.
Anonymous

Cruising in the Trenches

Our anonymous insider has spent months in Ukraine, where the LGBT community are still finding ways to hook up as the missiles fall.
Tom Nicholson

Mr Blobby Has a Cold

There are two men inside the monster, and one is desperate to get out.
Tomas Weber

Buy and Shell

Inside the battle for Fabergé's last eggs.
Jade Angeles Fitton

Club Couture

You've been subpoena’d by Anna Wintour! An inside look at London Fashion Week.

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Olly Haynes

Houellebecq Honeypot

Jini van Rooijen is an OnlyFans model and a member of the experimental Dutch art collective KIRAC. She also honeypotted Michel Houellebecq, the world's horniest author.
Ed Cumming

Two Eds are Better than One

Ed Cumming has a funny name. He's not the only one. So he took his name twin out for lunch to commiserate this reality.
Ed Cumming

Lunch for The Fence

How often do you have to file in order to be called a regular columnist? As this story proved, the answer is 'two years', as our free lunch editor returns for his second bite at the cadging cherry.
Kieran Morris

Lifestyles of the Professionally Jaded

A strange interrogation of squeamishness among the unsqueamish.
Alexander Cohen

Curtain Call

An interview with the legendary critic, Michael Billington, who has been reviewing plays since 1971, and is deeply concerned at the state of the British theatre.
The Fence

146 Questions with Adebayo Akinfenwa

In which we debut a new profile series set to take the magazine industry by storm. 
Josh Barrie

The Drinks Are on the House

Lap dances don't come for free in Old Soho.
Kieran Morris

Think You’re Hard Enough?

How do you spot a hard man? You ask the world’s hardest man.

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Anonymous

In the Midnight Hour

As a working-class escort from the north of England who works in central London, I’ve come to view my wealthy clients like attractions in a zoo: precious exotic creatures to be admired, fed and cautiously…
Georgia Brown

Borstal Boys

A personal history of the borstal in Britain: a century of incarcerated children.
David Whitehouse

Hold the Phone

On 11 September, 2001, a nurse was texting saucy messages to thousands of strangers across the country. But the nurse was really a 21-year-old man, bored in an office in London. We hear his story.
Katie Lewis

Requiem for a Scene

The Albion Rooms. Queens of Noize. The Hawley Arms. A musician remembers London in 2002.
Anonymous

Hotel Britannica

An anonymous report from a clinician working inside one of Britain’s asylum hotels.
Adam Steiner

Scunthorpe Revisited

In 2003, a little black book was published that struck at the real core values of British life: bodged buildings, massive class anxiety and rampant self-loathing.