Hold the Phone
On 11 September, 2001, a nurse was texting saucy messages to thousands of strangers across the country. But the nurse was really a 21-year-old man, bored in an office in London. We hear his story.
Borstal Boys
A personal history of the borstal in Britain: a century of incarcerated children.
In the Midnight Hour
As a working-class escort from the north of England who works in central London, I’ve come to view my wealthy clients like attractions in a zoo: precious exotic creatures to be admired, fed and cautiously…
Requiem for a Scene
The Albion Rooms. Queens of Noize. The Hawley Arms. A musician remembers London in 2002.
Scunthorpe Revisited
In 2003, a little black book was published that struck at the real core values of British life: bodged buildings, massive class anxiety and rampant self-loathing.
Hotel Britannica
An anonymous report from a clinician working inside one of Britain’s
asylum hotels.
A Bit of Liquor Sauce
Canning Town is the birthplace of Danny Dyer, and it's also London’s most rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood. Our pints correspondent went there for a few scoops.
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