The Fence

Who Louis Should’ve Met

Rather than the worthy docs about mental health and alcoholism, here are the programmes that Monsieur Theroux should have seen through: the weekends away with the freaks, bad hats and oddballs that used…
Bertie Brandes

Proceed to Checkout

That Ninja creamy has been sitting in your basket for months now. And you're not really going to buy that ceremonial matcha bowl, are you?
Molly Lipson

In My Life

George Martin was known as the man who made The Beatles. But to this day, little is known about his first, forgotten, family, who he was before the mania and the fame. Here's an interview with his daughter.
Stephen Smith

In Xanadu, Did Wilf Zaha

They say you shouldn't pass your unrealised dreams onto your children. Perhaps they are wrong. To decide, let us take you to Crystal Palace Football Club's Academy.
The Fence

All Possible Plots II

You could read a book, but why bother? Here, we list all the possible plots every author could come up with instead.
Lotte Brundle

The Deadly Double

Is the ‘deadly double’ – living in Clapham, working in Canary Wharf – the most depressing life a Londoner can lead?
John Phipps

Life of Reilly

In the heart of Drogheda lives an Irish man on a peculiar crusade. We meet Tom Reilly, a historian hellbent on clearing the name of Oliver Cromwell.
Anonymous

End of a Sentence

The life of a probation officer is part social work, part teacher, all about connecting with people on a human level. This anonymous account takes us to the ground level of the industry.
Andrew Hunter Murray

Baron Wastelands

We imagine barons as rural land magnates, shagging the wives of their miserable villein tenantry. But there are modern, urban peers too. Those who stalk the very streets of our capital.
Richard Smyth

Under the Hammer

In Nottinghamshire lives an Odinist cult. We meet the charming, not very Nordic, Viking obsessed men of the Odinist Fellowship of Newark-on-Trent.