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Issue 16

July 19, 2023

Cruising in the Trenches

Our anonymous insider has spent months in Ukraine, where the LGBT community are still finding ways to hook up as the missiles fall.

Josh Mcloughlin

Taboo or not Taboo

A conference with the world’s angriest academic.

Sophie Elmhirst

Zebra, Crossing

Learning to live life by the rule book.

Killian Faith-Kelly

Riders on the Storm

Nowhere in the world loves motorcycle racing as much as the people of Northern Ireland. Killian Faith-Kelly explores how the sport rides alongside centuries-old sectarian strife.

Ophira Gottlieb

Paying in Sweat

Why does Britain have such a tepid sauna culture?

Aisle B, Back

A dispatch from the security services.

Francisco Garcia

Posillipo Nights

Francisco Garcia joins in the celebrations.

Laugh Like you Used to

Our writer finds some proper British comedy.

What Became of the Cat Meat Man?

London’s streets are defined by the Blitz. The craters have been filled, but the shadows of the bombs remain.

At His Majesty’s Pleasure

Our pints correspondent took the train to Poundbury for King Charles’ coronation.

For Your Eyes Only

What does it mean to handle sensitive information? We spoke to a suite of nodes from across the pipeline to learn more about the power of confidential intel, in all of its forms.

Margaret Mitchell

Fairfax County, Virginia

The story of James Gordon Meek, an investigative journalist who hid secrets from everyone close to him.

Winter on the Fens

A meeting with a remarkable woman hoping to revive an almost unknown British sport.

Susannah Dickey

Axolotl

A short story about a dog and featuring a Vanessa Carlton song.

Nature’s Cruellest Mistake

Take even a cursory glance at the natural world and very soon you will find all sorts of creatures with ridiculously outsized capabilities to slay the planet’s one true custodian: us lot, humankind.

Who Louis Should’ve Met

Rather than the worthy docs about mental health and alcoholism, here are the programmes that Monsieur Theroux should have seen through: the weekends away with the freaks, bad hats and oddballs that used…

Waugh on Woke

Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart are old news. What programmes woud Gary Lineker's Goalhanger Productions commission if human mortality were no object?

A Novel Guide

Finally got that first book published? Our anonymous insider tells you what happens next.