The Fence, Live and Direct

Fourth Estate

or Fifth Column?

Fourth Estate

or Fifth Column?

A series of experts explain the political energies of the British mediascape.

Exit,

Pursued by a Bear

Exit,

Pursued by a Bear

Before the pandemic, London’s theatres were in a state of artistic necrosis. Our theatre world insider asks whether, after a year of enforced shutdown, anything will change.

Riding

with the

Herne Hill

Foxhounds

Riding

with the

Herne Hill

Foxhounds

Mary Harrington follows the urban hunt.

Monet!

The Fence delves into the relationship between fine art and fortune.

When I Hear Sirens

Britain’s probation services are overwhelmed. Our insider speaks out.

The Party Line

Life is one big campaign trail for our anonymous politico.

Lunch with Laurence Fox

We take the actor-turned-activist to a steak lunch in Mayfair.

Hermindedness

Do good novelists have to write good novels?

The

Elephant’s

Graveyard

The

Elephant’s

Graveyard

Oxford is where ideas go to die: an essay by Fergus Butler-Gallie.

A Guy Ritchie Pitchie

He’s going to subtitle it for the Yanks.

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.

Flann’s Journalism School

Our political correspondent is that peat-hearted Hibernian, Flann O’Brien himself.

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.

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!

London Haunts II

Flann

about

Town

Flann

about

Town

Richard Benyon. Owen Paterson. Antoinette Sandbach. All present and correct at Chuka Ummuna’s silent disco.

Diary of

an Urban

Parson I

Diary of

an Urban

Parson I

True and affecting vignettes from the life and times of the Reverend JJ Cowan, from which the reader may discern much of the happy state of the church of England in our nation's fair capital.

Diary

of an Urban

Parson

Diary

of an Urban

Parson

True and affecting vignettes from the life and times of the Reverend JJ Cowan, from which the reader may discern much of the happy state of the Church of England in our nation’s fair capital.

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.

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.

Evelyn Waugh,

A Fictive Seer

Evelyn Waugh,

A Fictive Seer

On Evelyn Waugh, that novelist so beloved of the Brexiteers; England and Englishness, and the pernicious after-life of satire.