Anonymous

Hotel Britannica

An anonymous report from a clinician working inside one of Britain’s asylum hotels.

2 April 2025

Jimmy McIntosh

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

Katie Lewis

Requiem for a Scene

The Albion Rooms. Queens of Noize. The Hawley Arms. A musician remembers London in 2002.

15 April 2025

Anonymous

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

Georgia Brown

Borstal Boys

A personal history of the borstal in Britain: a century of incarcerated children.

28 April 2025

Leo Robson

The Boys

An extract from our young author’s forthcoming novel.

6 May 2025

David Whitehouse

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.

8 May 2025

Ciaran Thapar

Roots Manoeuvres

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

13 May 2025

Emma Magnus

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

William Rayfet Hunter

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

Peter Carlyon

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?

30 May 2025

Louis Staples

Ersatz G.B.

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

5 June 2025