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The Tina Triangle
A dispatch on drugs and sex and partying.
5 August 2025
On the Catwalk
Teenage kicks: breaking into Reading Festival, smoking spliffs and being defrauded by rogue modelling agencies.
1 August 2025
Love in a Hostile Environment
All throughout the country, there are asylum seekers looking for connection, searching for something pure.
30 July 2025
The Man Who Invented Shoreditch
A man, a myth, a legend: Gary Fairfull changed London.
24 July 2025
Sugar Mummy
A short story about Annie, who’s taken on a different type of client.
22 July 2025
Look What You Made Me Queue
For the younger generation of music fans, waiting in line is the place to be.
18 July 2025
The SEND School
Our reporter is becoming a teacher, at a critical juncture for Britain's most vulnerable students.
14 July 2025
The K&R Man
Everybody’s got a price. Meet the man who sets it – a former negotiator in the kidnap-for-ransom industry. Yes, it’s an industry.
8 July 2025
Turn Up for the Books
After lockdown lifted, our writer spent three years in search of the perfect book club, only to find that no two readers are ever on the same page.
30 June 2025
Mind Invaders
Kidnapping. Boxing. Three-sided football. The art terrorists attack! A thoughtful dérive around the skewed contours of the London Psychogeographical Association.
23 June 2025
The Spy and the Postman
The biggest ever Soviet defector met the publican of The Merry Harriers – only for the pair to learn that they may have a contact in common: the writer’s quiet uncle.
19 June 2025
One! More! Song!
Does Battersea host the most basic night out in London? We sent our intrepid Gen-Z correspondent to find out.
17 June 2025