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The Life of Reilly
Our pints correspondent ventures through time and place at a gently pissed pace, in search of John Betjeman's London.
11 March 2024
The Based Evil Turbulence Index
We present to you without hesitation or deviation: the world’s first vibes-based personality taxonomy system. I know, finally.
6 March 2024
The Adolescents
A bitterly sad short story about a couple navigating life, loss and illness in the first few years of their forties.
4 March 2024
I Want to Live Like Normal People
If you go down to the pub tonight, be sure of a big surprise: Hollywood's hottest new leading man is waiting by the bar – or sprinting over the Heath.
28 February 2024
Catman Scoop
Few local legends tip so deeply into folk horror like the Catman of Greenock; as we uncover, the matters behind the myth are far more engrossing than any blurry snatch of video.
26 February 2024
The WeHo Siege
What's it like to live among the beautiful people?
12 February 2024
Ghost ‘n’ the Machine
When you open up the spirit realm, you can't control who wanders in. Sometimes – just sometimes – the ghost of Oscar Wilde will give you career advice.
8 February 2024
Seven Ages of Cool
What defines the amorphous idea of ‘coolness’ in each age of life? If you are cool too early in life, can you recapture that golden era? What is the optimum age to be considered the apex of cool? We reveal all this and more.
7 February 2024
Lunch for The Fence
How often do you have to file in order to be called a regular columnist? As this story proved, the answer is 'two years', as our free lunch editor returns for his second bite at the cadging cherry.
6 February 2024
But to Be Young
Coming of age is different for every generation – but it might've reached its apex in the sepia-tinted Seventies, when free love and naff rock still reigned supreme.
2 February 2024
You’re the One, Ellie Roebuck
Ever slide-tackled an ex? We take a look at the the scintillating dyke drama undergirding the entirety of women’s football.
29 January 2024
Failure to Turn
The majordomo of literary non-fiction meditates upon his mortality, his ear hair, and his complicated feelings toward the oeuvre of Luca Guadagnino.
26 January 2024