Facts
Reporting, profiles, and non-fiction from the print edition.
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.
10 June 2025
I Write Eulogies, Not Tragedies
After his nan died, this writer discovered an unusual line of part-time student work: peddling paeans from his dorm room, for strangers who couldn’t find the right words of their own.
9 June 2025
Ersatz G.B.
How do Lidl and Aldi get away with their imitation brands? We unpick the Cuthbert & Colin caterpillar wars.
5 June 2025
The Beadlean Library
Legendary presenter Jeremy Beadle had a big secret hiding in his Oxfordshire mansion.
3 June 2025
No Scrubs
Everyone has a limit to what they can handle, even doctors. One writer tells us what it was like to leave his former profession behind.
29 May 2025
On Minge Lane
A dispatch from Worcestershire, famous for its sauce – and saucy street names. Our correspondent hears from the residents who suffer through sniggers when they give out their address.
21 May 2025
Roots Manoeuvres
A dispatch from one of the most singular club nights in Britain, right next to Heathrow Airport.
13 May 2025
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.
24 April 2025
Requiem for a Scene
The Albion Rooms. Queens of Noize. The Hawley Arms. A musician remembers London in 2002.
15 April 2025
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.
10 April 2025
A Bit of Liquor Sauce
Canning Town is the birthplace of Danny Dyer, and it’s also London’s most rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood. Our pints correspondent went there for a few scoops.
4 April 2025
Getting the Band Back Together
In my fortieth year I was going to be in a band. And I was going to be unfuckable.
13 March 2025