Facts
Reporting, profiles, and non-fiction from the print edition.
Short-Arseing Around the Picasso
Whatever happened to the coolest café in London?
15 January 2026
All My Friends Are Famous
The mysterious covenant of the celebrity-civilian friendship pact.
13 January 2026
Choo-Choo-Cha-Boogie
Steam through history, as we take a ride on the very first locomotive engine.
5 January 2026
When the Sleigh Bells Ring
Isobel Thompson met Santa Claus.
16 December 2025
Czech in, Cash out
Fergus Butler-Gallie seeks bodily and monetary cleanliness.
16 December 2025
Sent to Coventry
Decca Mitford’s son, Ben Treuhaft, is a piano tuner with a purple-dyed goatee, living between Edinburgh and the West Midlands. But does he share his mother’s politics?
9 December 2025Visa-Vis
For our correspondent, a graduate visa held out the promise of an exciting future. After completing two degrees, she tried, and struggled, to find a job because the visa that gave her a right to work…
14 November 2025
The Miracle of Childbirth
Our reporter has a date with a room.
4 November 2025
The Albion Rooms
What it’s like to fall in love with Pete Doherty.
30 October 2025
Et ITV2, Brute?
Looking for love in all the wrong islands.
27 October 2025
I Want to Say Something
Digging into a grim obsession.
18 October 2025
You’re My Won-der-craaaaaawl
Bothering the cobbles of Manchester’s Northern Quarter.
15 October 2025