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Since the end of World War Two, the Russian Trade Delegation in Highgate has befuddled locals and enraged successive British governments. What’s really going on inside the compound’s walls?
Clive Martin

You Can Ring My Bell

Duck-egg blue, sticky prosecco and a lot of new money. For our new book, we sent Twickenham’s finest to the worst pub in the world.
Patrick Galbraith

Another Rave Review

The illegal free party scene has come back: the green fields of the West Country and Wales rock to the sound of a repetitive beat for days on end.
Bron Maher

The Tina Triangle

A dispatch on drugs and sex and partying.
Will Buckley

The Man Who Invented Shoreditch

A man, a myth, a legend: Gary Fairfull changed London.
Jack Beaumont

The SEND School

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

Turn Up for the Books

After lockdown lifted, our writer spent three years in search of the perfect book club, only to find that no two readers are ever on the same page.
Colin Stoneley

The Spy and the Postman

The biggest ever Soviet defector met the publican of The Merry Harriers – only for the pair to learn that they may have a contact in common: the writer’s quiet uncle.

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Geoff Dyer

Failure to Turn

The majordomo of literary non-fiction meditates upon his mortality, his ear hair, and his complicated feelings toward the oeuvre of Luca Guadagnino.
Nesrine Malik

Elder States, Man

To spend your life online is to live at one remove from reality – stand back too far, and you might find the years speeding by before your eyes.
Róisín Lanigan

The Chic Young Divorcée

Making a swift 180 down the aisle.
Harriet Rix

Lost in the Woods

Guy Shrubsole’s schemes have the potential to unleash havoc in the British countryside.
Richard Woodall

The View from Mount Olympus

2012’s Summer Olympics were a harbinger of the dreadful decade to come.
Fergus Butler-Gallie

At the Altar of Capital

How the Conservative Party lost their religion to the pull of the market.
Richard Smyth

The State of Nature

A classic treatise against men writing about the natural world.
Séamas O’Reilly

FBPE Fantasia

Unpicking the last four years of Remaniac delusions.

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Peter Carlyon

A Shark Tale

Russell Gray is a redoubtable property developer, who has, among other projects, remade Bermondsey. He is also a self-styled anarchist and an arts patron. What keeps him going?
Georgia Brown

Borstal Boys

A personal history of the borstal in Britain: a century of incarcerated children.
Miles Ellingham & Cormac Kehoe

Speaking in Small Tongues

An oil trader and an Old Etonian with a genius for PR, was Justin Welby the worst Archbishop of Canterbury since Thomas Arundel?
Francesca Bratton

This Turbulent Priest

Cake and coffee with Pat Buckley, a whistleblower; ex-priest; newspaper columnist; gay rights activist; HIV activist; husband; and the scourge, in his own words, ‘of everyone’.
Miles Ellingham & Cormac Kehoe

The Buddha of Siberia

Today, Evgeny Lebedev sees himself as London's media mogul du jour. Once, he was just the nepo baby of former KGB agent.
Clive Martin

Giving it the Big One

In the heart of the east end of London, a memorial is held to Dave Courtney, the city's celebrity gangster. Clive Martin raises a glass to a legend.
Isobel Thompson

The Show Must Go On

Travelling Showmen in the Vale of Health.
Archie Cornish

Winter on the Fens

A meeting with a remarkable woman hoping to revive an almost unknown British sport.

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Olly Haynes

Houellebecq Honeypot

Jini van Rooijen is an OnlyFans model and a member of the experimental Dutch art collective KIRAC. She also honeypotted Michel Houellebecq, the world's horniest author.
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.
Ed Cumming

Lunch for The Fence

How often do you have to file in order to be called a regular columnist? As this story proved, the answer is 'two years', as our free lunch editor returns for his second bite at the cadging cherry.
Kieran Morris

Lifestyles of the Professionally Jaded

A strange interrogation of squeamishness among the unsqueamish.
Alexander Cohen

Curtain Call

An interview with the legendary critic, Michael Billington, who has been reviewing plays since 1971, and is deeply concerned at the state of the British theatre.
The Fence

146 Questions with Adebayo Akinfenwa

In which we debut a new profile series set to take the magazine industry by storm. 
Josh Barrie

The Drinks Are on the House

Lap dances don't come for free in Old Soho.
Kieran Morris

Think You’re Hard Enough?

How do you spot a hard man? You ask the world’s hardest man.

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