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Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

Mind Invaders

Kidnapping. Boxing. Three-sided football. The art terrorists attack! A thoughtful dérive around the skewed contours of the London Psychogeographical Association.
Jun 23, 2025
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.
Jun 19, 2025
Lotte Brundle

One! More! Song!

Does Battersea host the most basic night out in London? We sent our intrepid Gen-Z correspondent to find out.
Jun 17, 2025
The Fence

Big in Japan

You wouldn’t have met their fans, they go to a different school. In Canada.
Jun 16, 2025
Nick Thompson

Diamonds in the Rough

Rogues Gallery is an initiative bringing art to inmates. We sent our writer to hang out with the set of creative crims behind the whole enterprise.
Jun 10, 2025
Alex Taylor

I Write Eulogies, Not Tragedies

After his nan died, this writer discovered an unusual line of part-time student work: peddling paeans from his dorm room, for strangers who couldn’t find the right words of their own.
Jun 9, 2025
Louis Staples

Ersatz G.B.

How do Lidl and Aldi get away with their imitation brands? We unpick the Cuthbert & Colin caterpillar wars.
Jun 5, 2025
Mark Blacklock

The Beadlean Library

Legendary presenter Jeremy Beadle had a big secret hiding in his Oxfordshire mansion. Watch out, Mark Blacklock’s about… to tell you about a very interesting book collection.
Jun 3, 2025
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?
May 30, 2025
William Rayfet Hunter

No Scrubs

Everyone has a limit to what they can handle, even doctors. One writer tells us what it was like to leave his former profession behind.
May 29, 2025

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