Issue 14
December 1, 2022
Róisín Lanigan

Shiny Happy People

Sometimes, you have to go to SW7.
Kieran Morris

Lifestyles of the Professionally Jaded

A strange interrogation of squeamishness among the unsqueamish.
Jimmy McIntosh

Where the River Joins the Water

Our resident pints correspondent headed out to the furthest reaches of the capital.
Jack Beaumont

Restart My Fire

Inside a government scheme that's serving no one and doing nothing.
Grace Linden

Columba Palumbus, Living Amongst Us

You should have read that in a headline in a Dr Dre voice. Anyway, here’s a brilliant piece about pigeon rehab.
William Vandyck

Standing on the Pipes

Looking back at a career in a peculiar branch of the law.
Misti Traya

Shreds of Approval

Mixing marmalade in shades of the purest vermillion.
Sarah Haque

In Defence of Mean Girls

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

Mr Blobby Has a Cold

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

A Freak Is a Long Time in Politics

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

Put Money in thy Purse

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

Drinking with the Greats

Legends of British History, yes, but good value in the pub?
The Fence

146 Questions with Adebayo Akinfenwa

In which we debut a new profile series set to take the magazine industry by storm. 
The Fence

Less than Hero

As Marvel and DC mine ever deeper pockets of their canon, we shine a light on some of the lesser-spotted comic book characters they might eventually get round to featuring.
Eoin Redahan

So You’ve Failed Your Doping Test

The finest excuses from the dopiest rope-a-dopers.
Jade Angeles Fitton

Ashes to Cashes

Take a little trip into the Gagosian galaxy.