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.
Bethany Elliott

Psychopaths’ Comic-Con

Meet the people who glorify the worst people in society for money.
Michael Holden

Gaming the System

If irony – of a kind – is the layering of comedy and tragedy, there are some places in London where it becomes fully three-dimensional.
Ralf Webb

Splendide Mendax

A short story concerning Fed, born Frederick, a young man who considers Julian Assange to be the messiah.
Stephen Smith

Off the Box

One of the last TV newsmen speaks of the halcyon days of long lunches and fat ratings, living life high on the hog.
Gary Grimes

Day 1,509 in the Big Brother House

Our writer, a lonely tweenager in rural Ireland, took to his computer and found new galaxies of possibilities – on a Big Brother forum.
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?
Natalie Berry

In the Shadow of the Mountain

One British family produced two legendary climbers who summitted mountains in the Alps and the Himalayas. This is their story.
Henry Wismayer

Brick by Brick

A celebration of an establishment in deepest south London with a tricksy landlord and a never-changing clientele. An ode, then, to the beauty of the mediocre pub.