Features

Long-form journalism, investigations, and essays from the print edition.

Meeting the English activists who refuse to go cashless, and plot the return of proper currency, just like it used to be.

Hell hath no horror like the bathroom of a girls’ school.

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

A guide to making millions from your postcolonial trauma.

An investigation into Queen Ethelburga’s, a fee-paying school in Yorkshire, whose proprietor is a convicted paedophile.

One of Southport’s own studies the tribes of Merseyside.

Here’s the strongest squad of freaks ever assembled, who could take on any opposition: past or present, at home or abroad.

A collection of essays on the men who stood tall in the age of Sir Tony.

A stark report from inside the Newham school that can’t stay out of the headlines.

Inside the battle for Fabergé's last eggs.

For almost ten years, one writer has been trying to make his child's nursery school teacher into a superstar.

They genuinely exist: the quidditch fanatics who don’t like Harry Potter.