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.
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.
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.