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Emma Magnus

On Minge Lane

A dispatch from Worcestershire, famous for its sauce – and saucy street names.
May 21, 2025
Anonymous

Hotel Britannica

An anonymous report from a clinician working inside one of Britain’s asylum hotels.
Apr 2, 2025
The Fence

The Grantham Anthem

Kieran Morris and Fergus Butler-Gallie are both obsessed with the Iron Lady, so they took the train to Lincolnshire for a Thatcher-fuelled day out.
Jan 13, 2025
Fergus Butler-Gallie

A Professional Service

A visit to the oldest undertakers in London, who have been in operation since the Battle of Trafalgar.
Nov 25, 2024
Clive Martin

The More They Feel, the More They Buy

Mad//fest, or Madfest for short, is an advertising and marketing conference where speakers declaim that 'brands are dead' or 'brands are God.'
Oct 22, 2024
Claudia Cockerell

Down on the Farm

Deep in the dark heart of Bamford Country, mutiny brews. For the past two decades, Lady Carole has transformed the Cotswolds. But what do the locals really think of her?
Oct 7, 2024
Lotte Brundle

The Deadly Double

Is the ‘deadly double’ – living in Clapham, working in Canary Wharf – the most depressing life a Londoner can lead?
Aug 14, 2024
Richard Smyth

Under the Hammer

In Nottinghamshire lives an Odinist cult. We meet the charming, not very Nordic, Viking obsessed men of the Odinist Fellowship of Newark-on-Trent.
Aug 5, 2024
Camilla Bell-Davies

Among the Russians

Around 30,0000 Russians fled to Serbia at the beginning of the Ukraine war. At a foggy banya in the middle of Belgrade, some of them tell us why.
Jul 30, 2024
Margaret Mitchell

If You Can’t Beauchamp, Join Them

Learning the secret of eternal life from a Kensington pizzeria owner, Ciro Orsini, who at the age of 75, still dresses like a biker – and who still has an eye for the ladies.
Jul 15, 2024

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