Will Buckley

The Man Who Invented Shoreditch

A man, a myth, a legend: Gary Fairfull changed London.
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The SEND School

Jack Beaumont is becoming a teacher, at a critical juncture for Britain's most vulnerable students.

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Look What You Made Me Queue

For the younger generation of music fans, waiting in line is the place to be.
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Turn Up for the Books

After lockdown lifted, our writer spent three years in search of the perfect book club, only to find that no two readers are ever on the same page.
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Big in Japan

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A Shark Tale

Russell Gray is a redoubtable property developer, who has, among other projects, remade Bermondsey. He is also a self-styled anarchist and an arts patron. What keeps him going?
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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.
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Love in a Hostile Environment

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Look What You Made Me Queue by Emma Magnus
The SEND School by Jack Beaumont
Love in a Hostile Environment by Clare Considine
Sugar Mummy by Eva Wiseman
The Man Who Invented Shoreditch by Will Buckley
The Tina Triangle by Bron Maher
Hotel Britannica by Anonymous
A Bit of Liquor Sauce by Jimmy McIntosh
Requiem for a Scene by Katie Lewis
The Boys by Leo Robson
Ersatz G.B. by Louis Staples
Hold the Phone by David Whitehouse
No Scrubs by William Rayfet Hunter
On Minge Lane by Emma Magnus
Borstal Boys by Georgia Brown
Roots Manoeuvres by Ciaran Thapar
Last Days of Soho by Francisco Garcia
Loving the Nineties by Miranda Sawyer
An Ugly Business by Olympia Campbell
Down at Daymer Bay by Clive Martin
The Kids Are Coming up from Behind by Drew Lustman
The Grantham Anthem by The Fence
In the Shadow of the Mountain by Natalie Berry
Day 1,509 in the Big Brother House by Gary Grimes
Off the Box by Stephen Smith
Splendide Mendax by Ralf Webb
The More They Feel, the More They Buy by Clive Martin
Over the Hill and Far Away by Lauren Bensted
A Load of Bollocks by Bron Maher
Down on the Farm by Claudia Cockerell
Icarus Also Flew by Ella Fox-Martens
The Buddha of Siberia by Miles Ellingham & Cormac Kehoe
A Memorable Meal by John Banville
A Hackney Story by Max Daly
War Games by Jake Warren
A Long Stretch by Anonymous
Something in the Water by Fiona Mozley
If You Can’t Beauchamp, Join Them by Margaret Mitchell
A Pint of Plane by Jimmy McIntosh
A Haunting in Shoreditch by Jordan Michelman
Bib Brother by Joe Bishop
End of a Sentence by Anonymous
The Princess and the Pitta by Róisín Lanigan
The White Whale by Orlando Whitfield
West End Confidential by Clive Martin
Among the Russians by Camilla Bell-Davies
Sling Voters by Bron Maher
Two Eds are Better than One by Ed Cumming
Bread and Circuses by The Fence
Something to Tell You by Sachin Kureishi
The Drugs Don’t Work by Margaret McCartney
A Cozzer Snout by Francisco Garcia
Absolutely Buzzing by Thomas Gorton
The Kid Stays out of the Picture by Anonymous
Burning with Pleasure by Sophie Elmhirst
Giving it the Big One by Clive Martin
Failure to Turn by Geoff Dyer
Kaiser Wilhelm’s Folly by Eve Webster
When One Grows Tired of Cyberdog by Clive Martin
Lunch for The Fence by Ed Cumming
You’re the One, Ellie Roebuck by Rosie Hewitson
Ghost ‘n’ the Machine by Fiona Mozley
Catman Scoop by Robbie Armstrong
Dog Day Afternoon by Hussein Kesvani
Looking for Bagley’s by Jimmy McIntosh
The WeHo Siege by Harvey James
The Show Must Go On by Isobel Thompson
Twenty out of Twenty by Joe Bishop
The Fuck Tree by Bron Maher
Against Nature by Joe Zadeh
Twenty out of Twenty by Joe Bishop
Bruce & Jeffrey by Jane Rankin-Reid
Oliver Reed’s Big Night Out by Jimmy McIntosh
At Auntie’s Knee by Emma Magnus
Salt Over Your Shoulder by Sarah Haque
The Enfield Blazers by Jade Angeles Fitton
Cruising in the Trenches by Anonymous
Taboo or not Taboo by Josh Mcloughlin
Zebra, Crossing by Sophie Elmhirst
Riders on the Storm by Killian Faith-Kelly
Paying in Sweat by Ophira Gottlieb
Aisle B, Back by Davey Brett
Posillipo Nights by Francisco Garcia
Laugh Like you Used to by Clive Martin
What Became of the Cat Meat Man? by Sally Howard
At His Majesty’s Pleasure by Jimmy McIntosh
Helter Skelter in Honiton by Josh Barrie
Taxi Cab Confessionals by Mark Blacklock
An American Tail by Michelle Taylor
The Julian Fellowes Benevolent Fund by Caspar Salmon
Just the Tonic by Robbie Armstrong
Las Babas del Diablo by Róisín Lanigan
You’re Tearing Me Apart, Lisa by Madeline Grant
Something Is Rotten on the Street of Denmark by Jimmy McIntosh
A Postcard from Vesuvius by Danielle Thom
Fashion Beasts! by Clive Martin
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Eva Wiseman

Sugar Mummy

A short story about Annie, who’s taken on a different type of client.
Leo Robson

The Boys

An extract from Leo Robson’s forthcoming novel.
Ralf Webb

Splendide Mendax

A short story concerning Fed, born Frederick, a young man who considers Julian Assange to be the messiah.
Lucas Oakeley

Empty Orchestra

A short story in a pub.
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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.
Joe Kennedy

Herdmindedness

Do good novelists have to write good novels?
Louis Staples

Ersatz G.B.

How do Lidl and Aldi get away with their imitation brands? We unpick the Cuthbert & Colin caterpillar wars.
James Ramsden

Getting the Band Back Together

In my fortieth year I was going to be in a band. And I was going to be unfuckable.
John Banville

A Memorable Meal

Novelist John Banville once went for lunch in an Umbrian tavern. He's remembered it for the past fifty years. He recounts it for us now.
Joe Bishop

Bib Brother

The Michelin Guide is arcane, self-serious and totally nonsensical. Even the chefs themselves can't workout the star system. And yet, we can't bear to break away from it.
Róisín Lanigan

The Princess and the Pitta

Truly the people’s café.
Margaret Mitchell

If You Can’t Beauchamp, Join Them

Learning the secret of eternal life from a Kensington pizzeria owner, Ciro Orsini, who at the age of 75, still dresses like a biker – and who still has an eye for the ladies.
Ian Trueger

The Feast of Saint John

A particular central London restaurant has enjoyed an offally good time over the past few years, wouldn't you agree?
Charlotte Ivers

Baker’s Dozen

Tom Baker was a hard-drinking, fine-dining legend whose Soho sprees were captured in an infamous 1978 newspaper profile. 45 years later, a younger writer retraces his steps in a new, more sanitised era.
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.
Clare Considine

Love in a Hostile Environment

All throughout the country, there are asylum seekers looking for connection, searching for something pure.
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?
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?
Emma Magnus

At Auntie’s Knee

Do you pay your TV license? Course you don't. Nobody does. Particularly not the license pay vigilantes fighting the good cause - we meet them.
Camilla Bell-Davies

Among the Russians

Around 30,0000 Russians fled to Serbia at the beginning of the Ukraine war. At a foggy banya in the middle of Belgrade, some of them tell us why.
Jordan Michelman

A Haunting in Shoreditch

The Ace of shades.
Clive Martin

West End Confidential

A tour of the filthy and glamorous capital.
Fiona Mozley

Something in the Water

Why do people drink their own piss?
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.
Sophie Wilkinson

On the Catwalk

Teenage kicks: breaking into Reading Festival, smoking spliffs and being defrauded by rogue modelling agencies.
Emma Magnus

Look What You Made Me Queue

For the younger generation of music fans, waiting in line is the place to be.
Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

Mind Invaders

Kidnapping. Boxing. Three-sided football. The art terrorists attack! A thoughtful dérive around the skewed contours of the London Psychogeographical Association.
Nick Thompson

Diamonds in the Rough

Rogues Gallery is an initiative bringing art to inmates. We sent our writer to hang out with the set of creative crims behind the whole enterprise.
Mark Blacklock

The Beadlean Library

Legendary presenter Jeremy Beadle had a big secret hiding in his Oxfordshire mansion. Watch out, Mark Blacklock’s about… to tell you about a very interesting book collection.
Ciaran Thapar

Roots Manoeuvres

A dispatch from one of the most singular club nights in Britain, right next to Heathrow Airport.
Miranda Sawyer

Loving the Nineties

Who were the gatekeepers who made the country swing again? Travel back to 1992, and meet the DJs, producers and journalists who made Britpop a global juggernaut.
Clive Martin

The More They Feel, the More They Buy

Mad//fest, or Madfest for short, is an advertising and marketing conference where speakers declaim that 'brands are dead' or 'brands are God.'
Orlando Whitfield

The White Whale

A failed art dealer recounts his dealings with one of the industry's trickiest and most enigmatic characters.
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We return to ask some stupid questions of the smartest people on Earth and, once more, our Nobelists oblige.
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Beach Bums

In France? Sure. In Italy? Why not. But in chilly Blighty? Surely nobody could stand it. Some can. We uncover the naked truth behind Britain’s nudist beaches and their stern, shrivelled patrons.
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Nature’s Cruellest Mistake

Take even a cursory glance at the natural world and very soon you will find all sorts of creatures with ridiculously outsized capabilities to slay the planet’s one true custodian: us lot, humankind.

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