Sophie Wilkinson

On the Catwalk

Teenage kicks: breaking into Reading Festival, smoking spliffs and being defrauded by rogue modelling agencies.
Clare Considine

Love in a Hostile Environment

All throughout the country, there are asylum seekers looking for connection, searching for something pure.
Emma Magnus

Look What You Made Me Queue

For the younger generation of music fans, waiting in line is the place to be.
Jack Beaumont

The SEND School

Jack Beaumont is becoming a teacher, at a critical juncture for Britain's most vulnerable students.
The Fence

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.
Nick Thompson

Diamonds in the Rough

Rogues Gallery is an initiative bringing art to inmates. We sent our writer to hang out with the set of creative crims behind the whole enterprise.
Alex Taylor

I Write Eulogies, Not Tragedies

After his nan died, this writer discovered an unusual line of part-time student work: peddling paeans from his dorm room, for strangers who couldn’t find the right words of their own.
Louis Staples

Ersatz G.B.

How do Lidl and Aldi get away with their imitation brands? We unpick the Cuthbert & Colin caterpillar wars.
Mark Blacklock

The Beadlean Library

Legendary presenter Jeremy Beadle had a big secret hiding in his Oxfordshire mansion. Watch out, Mark Blacklock’s about… to tell you about a very interesting book collection.
William Rayfet Hunter

No Scrubs

Everyone has a limit to what they can handle, even doctors. One writer tells us what it was like to leave his former profession behind.