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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.
Aug 11, 2025
Bron Maher

The Tina Triangle

A dispatch on drugs and sex and partying.
Aug 5, 2025
Sophie Wilkinson

On the Catwalk

Teenage kicks: breaking into Reading Festival, smoking spliffs and being defrauded by rogue modelling agencies.
Aug 1, 2025
Clare Considine

Love in a Hostile Environment

All throughout the country, there are asylum seekers looking for connection, searching for something pure.
Jul 30, 2025
Will Buckley

The Man Who Invented Shoreditch

A man, a myth, a legend: Gary Fairfull changed London.
Jul 24, 2025
Eva Wiseman

Sugar Mummy

A short story about Annie, who’s taken on a different type of client.
Jul 22, 2025
Emma Magnus

Look What You Made Me Queue

For the younger generation of music fans, waiting in line is the place to be.
Jul 18, 2025
Jack Beaumont

The SEND School

Jack Beaumont is becoming a teacher, at a critical juncture for Britain's most vulnerable students.
Jul 14, 2025
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.
Jul 8, 2025
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.
Jun 30, 2025

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