NHS Staff aren’t heroes. They’re the victims of governmental failure.
Who Would
Be a Hero?
Who Would
Be a Hero?
NHS Staff aren’t heroes. They’re the victims of governmental failure.
Baby Donald
Baby Donald
A short story from Tanjil Rashid.
At the Altar
of Capital
At the Altar
of Capital
Fergus Butler-Gallie on how the Tory Party lost its religion.
Riding with the
Herne Hill Foxhounds
Riding with the
Herne Hill Foxhounds
Mary Harrington follows the urban hunt.
Stinking Rich
Stinking Rich
Imogen West-Knights watches bankers have sex on television.
Our Christmas Appeal
Our Christmas Appeal
We are raising £10,000 for St Matthew’s, Burnley.
In Sickness
and in Health
In Sickness
and in Health
This year, it was wedding bells and COVID drills for Jade Angeles Fitton.
The State of Nature
The State of Nature
Richard Smyth wades through the thickets of purple prose.
Caring for an Author
Caring for an Author
Rob Palk has some stern words for the writing community.
What the LRB
Bought Me
What the LRB
Bought Me
We asked Britain’s most radical writers how they spark joy.
Pray Not to Be Gay
Pray Not to Be Gay
Inside the sick, sad world of conversion therapy.
Monet! Monet! Monet!
Monet! Monet! Monet!
The Fence delves into the relationship between fine art and fortune.
Food Fight
Food Fight
Why do Britain’s food critics hate each other? Ed Cumming investigates.
Life on the Cut
Life on the Cut
Josh Mcloughlin on his years of cruising.
When I Hear Sirens
When I Hear Sirens
Britain’s probation services are overwhelmed. Our insider speaks out.
Commissioners in Chief
Commissioners in Chief
Who should be BBC director general? The Fence floats famous directors and generals for the top job.
FBPE Fantasia
FBPE Fantasia
Séamas O’Reilly unpicks the last four years of Remainiac delusions.
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Love’s Labour’s Lost
For Anna Thomas, a PhD is a little too much like a relationship.
Rev. Revolutionised
Rev. Revolutionised
Another round of clerical dispatches from Stoke Newington.
May Day
May Day
Short fiction by Sophie Mackintosh.
Secret Chef Reviews
Marina O'Loughlin
Secret Chef Reviews
Marina O'Loughlin
Five stars on the house for this critic!
Bonus Bonanza
Bonus Bonanza
Want to know how much bankers earn? A veteran investment banker lays out the unblushing figures.
The New Man
The New Man
A short story from Rob Palk.
The Party Line
The Party Line
Life is one big campaign trail for our anonymous politico.
Who Called Boris
on Friday?
Who Called Boris
on Friday?
A tipster’s guide to who forced through the grouse shooting exemption.
How to Write
How to Write
In a world exclusive, The Fence is delighted to publish three extracts from Martin Amis’ newest novel.
Lunch with Laurence Fox
Lunch with Laurence Fox
We take the actor-turned-activist to a steak lunch in Mayfair.
Hermindedness
Hermindedness
Do good novelists have to write good novels?
All Possible Plots
by Major Authors
All Possible Plots
by Major Authors
We praise canonical authors for their boundless imagination. Then why do all their plots feel the same?
The Elephant’s Graveyard
The Elephant’s Graveyard
Oxford is where ideas go to die: an essay by Fergus Butler-Gallie.
Cowboy Tutors
Cowboy Tutors
The government is wasting £350 million on a foolish policy. Our education insider believes it will have disastrous effects for the country’s poorest pupils.
National Harambe Service
National Harambe Service
A short story from Omar Al-Khayatt.
Cutting Off
the Fringe
Cutting Off
the Fringe
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival was cancelled this year. Rob Oldham wonders whether this might be a good thing.
I Hope you
Go to America
I Hope you
Go to America
A story by Lamorna Ash.
My Prodigy Son
My Prodigy Son
Lockdown has been hard for all parents, but especially challenging for one particular correspondent.
A Guy Ritchie Pitchie
A Guy Ritchie Pitchie
He’s going to subtitle it for the Yanks.
A Series of
Unfortunate Names
A Series of
Unfortunate Names
What’s in a name? John Phipps fires up his LinkedIn and investigates.
Our Friends in Hereford
Our Friends in Hereford
A military insider explains why the SAS is permitted to act with deadly impunity.
Empire State of Mind
Empire State of Mind
Imogen West-Knights imagines what her life will be like when she moves to New York after all this is over.
Inside the Battle
to Save Nour
Inside the Battle
to Save Nour
An account from one of the team who helped the beloved Brixton cash and carry to ward off an avaricious property developer-turned-DJ.
The Busiest
Man in Journalism
The Busiest
Man in Journalism
An interview with the New York Times Correspondent for The New York Times.
On the Trail
of the 'Ndrangheta
On the Trail
of the 'Ndrangheta
Are the Calabrian mafia in London? Anna Sergi and Claudio Petrozziello investigate.
Flann’s Journalism School
Flann’s Journalism School
Our political correspondent is that peat-hearted Hibernian, Flann O’Brien himself.
The Publishing World
Has Gone Viral
The Publishing World
Has Gone Viral
All the plague-centred book trends that you need to know now!
The Opportunistic
Emails of
Benjamin Disraeli
The Opportunistic
Emails of
Benjamin Disraeli
Dizzy will do anything to see his name emboldened within print.
Digital Media Carnage
Digital Media Carnage
Endless lay-offs and cocaine goody bags: inside a famous new media publication.
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
Barista on Tap
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
Barista on Tap
An author of unimpeachable literary integrity is dishing out flat whites in Soho.
A Letter
from the ICU
A Letter
from the ICU
A must-read dispatch from a doctor working in a major London hospital.
Zest of the Rest:
3 issues for £15
Zest of the Rest:
3 issues for £15
The Frying Pan
and the Fire
The Frying Pan
and the Fire
Ethan Croft profiles some truly egregious parliamentary candidates: over-promoted dunces, liars, gainfully employed lobby-fodder and supercilious nobodies.
Call Me
Call Me
Dr Rachel Hawke, a couples therapist and consultant, tries not to take her work home with her. No easy task.
Anthony Lane reviews
Allison Pearson
Anthony Lane reviews
Allison Pearson
But there sits an avatar of her visage, a mere two decades old, gazing out at me, inviting me to delve deeper into her oeuvre. Come on, sir. I’m prepared.
Corbynism after Corbyn
Corbynism after Corbyn
An essayistic slog dedicated to the revolutionary vanguard: Tomiwa Owolade makes his tribute.
Lacking
Trust
Lacking
Trust
An anonymous NHS insider reveals how regulation has left the institution unprepared for the pandemic.
Hot Chip
are not
on Tour
Hot Chip
are not
on Tour
The music industry is a champagne affair. Well sort of. But not really. Al Doyle gives you the tough truth.
Subscribe here from £25 only
Subscribe here from £25 only
Alice in
Medialand
Alice in
Medialand
A Private Eyevent! Featuring the rt. hon. Lord Poshlip and many more.
Yellow
Nailpolish,
a Short Story
Yellow
Nailpolish,
a Short Story
Every contemporary short story ever published – as imagined by A.K. Blakemore.
London
Haunts III
London
Haunts III
A trio of ghoulish dates, replayed for your reading pleasure and moral instruction.
London Coffee Shops as
Failed Dating Experiences
London Coffee Shops as
Failed Dating Experiences
Alex Marraccini compares past dates with women to trendy London coffee shops. And a bit more.
What Next for the London
Restaurant World?
What Next for the London
Restaurant World?
The London restaurant world is fucked. Jonathan Nunn tells who is the most fucked.
The Coronavirus Diaries
Of Samuel Pepys
The Coronavirus Diaries
Of Samuel Pepys
O, to languish upon my couch, and see my nation prove themelves to be mere cowards!
Diary of an
Urban Parson
Rev. Refreshed
Diary of an
Urban Parson
Rev. Refreshed
Laurence Sterne meets Adrian Mole in this clerical dispatch.
Wild Swimming:
Our Half-arsed
Cultural Critic
Dips a Toe
And Phones It In
Wild Swimming:
Our Half-arsed
Cultural Critic
Dips a Toe
And Phones It In
Rob Palk reports live on Photogenica Moneyshire, seen last at Hampstead Ponds.
Conversations
with Friends
about
Sally Rooney
Conversations
with Friends
about
Sally Rooney
Ella Cory-Wright provides an epistolary inquiry into the zeitgeist and herself.
The Diary of
Samuel
Pepys
iPhone Addict
The Diary of
Samuel
Pepys
iPhone Addict
Thence I to my office, and all afternoon opening and closing the Guardian homepage.
Politics
Off
Grid
Politics
Off
Grid
Our anonymous insider at Broadcasting House relays the bizarre working practices of this beleaguered institution.
Chef Bites Back!
Chef Bites Back!
The Fence has hired a Michelin-starred restaurateur to go undercover and analyse the critics.
How to Keep
Rory Stewart
Off Your
Property
How to Keep
Rory Stewart
Off Your
Property
Do. Not. Open. The. Door.
Have You Seen Parasite?
Have You Seen Parasite?
For 11 months a year there's nothing on at the cinema. Then in February, there's suddenly far, far too much.
Patrick Bateman
Critic-at-Large
Patrick Bateman
Critic-at-Large
The lonely search for perfection.
London
Train
Stations
as Serial
Killers
London
Train
Stations
as Serial
Killers
Fergus Butler-Gallie provides a conceit upon the history of our rail service.
Underground
Dance Tribes
of London
Underground
Dance Tribes
of London
Our guide to the thrusters and strivers issuing a vibe-downpour on the capital and its barely breathing clubbing scene.
English Lit. Canon and their
Current Views on Brexit
English Lit. Canon and their
Current Views on Brexit
Daniel Defoe photoshops Marina Hyde articles, and Chaucer just has a bizarre obsession with Anna Soubry.
Flann
about
Town
Flann
about
Town
Richard Benyon. Owen Paterson. Antoinette Sandbach. All present and correct at Chuka Ummuna’s silent disco.
Rewatching
The Hobbit Trilogy
Rewatching
The Hobbit Trilogy
An adventure through an impossible quest: a half-cooked trilogy of films on a long-haul flight.
Chef Bites Back
Chef Bites Back
Slay Rayner!
Nothing British About Britain
Nothing British About Britain
When you come to think to it, you realise that there is nothing special about this ridiculous country.
14.5 Reasons
why your
Relationship
is just about
already over
14.5 Reasons
why your
Relationship
is just about
already over
We provide a pre break-up post-mortem.
An Ethnographic
Study of the Young
Male Journalists
of London
An Ethnographic
Study of the Young
Male Journalists
of London
Our exhaustively researched compendium of the upstart myth-makers scribbling their way up the metropolitan ladder.
12 Rules
for Getting your
First Book
Published
12 Rules
for Getting your
First Book
Published
Here is the unvarnished and unimprovable guide to getting published, by a member of The Fence in a senior position at a major publishing house.
Super Tutor Confessions
Super Tutor Confessions
The tales of glamour and glitz are just a front. Our insider tells it like it is.
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