Jimmy McIntosh

The Life of Reilly

Our pints correspondent ventures through time and place at a gently pissed pace, in search of John Betjeman's London.
Louis Elton

The Based Evil Turbulence Index

We present to you without hesitation or deviation: the world’s first vibes-based personality taxonomy system. I know, finally.
Madeleine Brettingham

The Adolescents

A bitterly sad short story about a couple navigating life, loss and illness in the first few years of their forties.
Lotte Brundle

I Want to Live Like Normal People

If you go down to the pub tonight, be sure of a big surprise: Hollywood's hottest new leading man is waiting by the bar – or sprinting over the Heath.
Robbie Armstrong

Catman Scoop

Few local legends tip so deeply into folk horror like the Catman of Greenock; as we uncover, the matters behind the myth are far more engrossing than any blurry snatch of video.
Harvey James

The WeHo Siege

What's it like to live among the beautiful people? Juvenile, chaotic, and as it turns out, bizarrely dangerous, as this LA dispatch demonstrates.
Fiona Mozley

Ghost ‘n’ the Machine

When you open up the spirit realm, you can't control who wanders in. Sometimes – just sometimes – the ghost of Oscar Wilde will give you career advice.
The Fence

Seven Ages of Cool

What defines the amorphous idea of ‘coolness’ in each age of life? If you are cool too early in life, can you recapture that golden era? What is the optimum age to be considered the apex of cool?
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.
Ian Martin

But to Be Young

Coming of age is different for every generation – but it might've reached its apex in the sepia-tinted Seventies, when free love and naff rock still reigned supreme.