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.
Leo Robson

The Boys

An extract from Leo Robson’s forthcoming novel.
Georgia Brown

Borstal Boys

A personal history of the borstal in Britain: a century of incarcerated children.
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…
Katie Lewis

Requiem for a Scene

The Albion Rooms. Queens of Noize. The Hawley Arms. A musician remembers London in 2002.
Adam Steiner

Scunthorpe Revisited

In 2003, a little black book was published that struck at the real core values of British life: bodged buildings, massive class anxiety and rampant self-loathing.
Jimmy McIntosh

A Bit of Liquor Sauce

Canning Town is the birthplace of Danny Dyer, and it's also London’s most rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood. Our pints correspondent went there for a few scoops.
Anonymous

Hotel Britannica

An anonymous report from a clinician working inside one of Britain’s asylum hotels.
James Ramsden

Getting the Band Back Together

In my fortieth year I was going to be in a band. And I was going to be unfuckable.
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.