An investigation into Senator Josh Hawley’s year in London, where he worked as a teacher at an elite private school.

Richard Smyth wades through the thickets of purple prose.

Want to know how much bankers earn? A veteran investment banker lays out the unblushing figures.

It was wedding bells and COVID drills for Jade Angeles Fitton.

With tales of forgotten literary siblings now in vogue (think books based around clunky tween-insert Enola Holmes or tedious commonplace book owner, Mary Bennet), we are pleased to introduce you to other forgotten and frankly forgettable blood relations of the canon.

Alex Marraccini compares past dates with women to trendy London coffee shops. And a bit more.

We speak to authors on both sides of the Atlantic about their addiction to social media.

A short story from Tanjil Rashid.

Fergus Butler-Gallie on how the Tory Party lost its religion.

We asked Britain’s most radical writers how they spark joy.

Inside the sick, sad world of conversion therapy.

Why do Britain’s food writers hate each other?

Josh Mcloughlin on his years of continuous cruising.

Séamas O’Reilly unpicks the last four years of Remainiac delusions.

Reporting live on Photogenica Moneyshire, last seen live at Hampstead Ponds.

James Bloodworth settles accounts with the lockdown sceptics.

Another round of clerical dispatches from Stoke Newington.

Short fiction by Sophie Mackintosh.

Five stars on the house for this anonymous critic!

A tipster’s guide to which donor forced through the grouse shooting exemption.

In a world exclusive, The Fence is delighted to publish three extracts from Martin Amis’ newest novel.

We praise canonical authors for their boundless imagination. Then why do all their plots feel the same?

A short story from Omar Al-Khayatt.

Lockdown has been hard for all parents, but especially challenging for one particular correspondent.

What’s in a name? John Phipps fires up his LinkedIn and investigates.

A military insider explains why the Special Air Service is permitted to act with deadly impunity.

Imogen West-Knights imagines what her life will be like when she moves to New York after all this is over.

An interview with the New York Times Correspondent for the New York Times.

Are the Calabrian mafia in London? Anna Sergi and Claudio Petrozziello investigate.

A conceit upon the history of our rail service.

All the plague-centred book trends that you need to know now!

Dizzy will do anything to see his name emboldened within print.

Endless lay-offs and cocaine goody bags: inside a famous new media publication.

Our correspondent, Flann O’Brien, tours Westminster, bringing us news, views, and change from a twenty, depending on your round.

A must-read dispatch from a doctor working in a major London hospital.

A Private Eyevent! Featuring the rt. hon. Lord Poshlip and many more.

Every contemporary short story ever published – as imagined by A.K. Blakemore.

Laurence Sterne meets Adrian Mole in this clerical dispatch.

Ella Cory-Wright provides an epistolary inquiry into the zeitgeist and herself.

Thence I to my office, and all afternoon opening and closing the Guardian homepage.

Our anonymous insider at Broadcasting House relays the bizarre working practices of this beleaguered institution.

Daniel Defoe photoshops Marina Hyde articles, and Chaucer just has a bizarre obsession with Anna Soubry.

Slay Rayner!

When you come to think to it, you realise that there is nothing special about this ridiculous country.

Here is the unvarnished and unimprovable guide to getting published, by a member of The Fence in a senior position at a major publishing house.

The tales of glamour and glitz are just a front. Our insider tells it like it is.