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David Whitehouse

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.
May 8, 2025
Georgia Brown

Borstal Boys

A personal history of the borstal in Britain: a century of incarcerated children.
Apr 28, 2025
Anonymous

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…
Apr 24, 2025
Katie Lewis

Requiem for a Scene

The Albion Rooms. Queens of Noize. The Hawley Arms. A musician remembers London in 2002.
Apr 15, 2025
Anonymous

Hotel Britannica

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

A Failure to Convalesce

Five years since the pandemic started, there are millions of people suffering from Long COVID, including tens of thousands of Millennials, bedridden for days on end.
Mar 11, 2025
Stephen Smith

Off the Box

One of the last TV newsmen speaks of the halcyon days of long lunches and fat ratings, living life high on the hog.
Feb 5, 2025
Gary Grimes

Day 1,509 in the Big Brother House

Our writer, a lonely tweenager in rural Ireland, took to his computer and found new galaxies of possibilities – on a Big Brother forum.
Jan 29, 2025
Drew Lustman

The Kids Are Coming up from Behind

The life of an international DJ consists of ceaseless transit and wild-eyed revelry. So how do you keep the beats pumping when parenthood comes calling?
Jan 6, 2025
Clive Martin

Down at Daymer Bay

Siloed away at the far corner of England, Cornwall is one of the few locales that makes this small country feel rather vast, a county of sinister lore and berserk history.
Dec 17, 2024

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