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Sachin Kureishi

Something to Tell You

On Boxing Day 2022, the writer Hanif Kureishi had a fall that left him paralysed from the neck down. His son Sachin reflects on a year caring for his once-carer.
Apr 29, 2024
Charlotte Ivers

Baker’s Dozen

Tom Baker was a hard-drinking, fine-dining legend whose Soho sprees were captured in an infamous 1978 newspaper profile. 45 years later, a younger writer retraces his steps in a new, more sanitised era.
Apr 25, 2024
Ed Cumming

Two Eds are Better than One

Ed Cumming has a funny name. He's not the only one. So he took his name twin out for lunch to commiserate this reality.
Apr 19, 2024
Bron Maher

Sling Voters

How do the denizens of London's underground sex clubs plan to vote in the upcoming General Election? We sent our reporter to find out where the swing seats lie.
Apr 18, 2024
Fergus Butler-Gallie

The Heart of the City

Our editor-at-large has spent far too much time at Charing Cross station. So much time that he now argues it's 'the heart of London'.
Apr 11, 2024
Tim Wyatt

In the Shadow of St Paul’s

One of the most extraordinary investigations we've ever published, uncovering a torrid legacy of deceit, fraud and suicide at the heart of the Church of England.
Mar 28, 2024
Gus Carter

Hacks, Stacks & Perfect Sniffing

Lifting the veil on the London Library, our capital's most clandestine reading house.
Mar 14, 2024
Eve Webster

Kaiser Wilhelm’s Folly

Much like the flailing German Empire, don't we all want to find our own place in the sun? Not by reconquering Constantinople, but by going on Channel 4.
Mar 13, 2024
Jimmy McIntosh

The Life of Reilly

Our pints correspondent ventures through time and place at a gently pissed pace, in search of John Betjeman's London.
Mar 11, 2024
Lotte Brundle

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.
Feb 28, 2024

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