Facts
Reporting, profiles, and non-fiction from the print edition.
On the Catwalk
Teenage kicks: breaking into Reading Festival, smoking spliffs and being defrauded by rogue modelling agencies.
1 August 2025
Love in a Hostile Environment
All throughout the country, there are asylum seekers looking for connection, searching for something pure.
30 July 2025
Look What You Made Me Queue
For the younger generation of music fans, waiting in line is the place to be.
18 July 2025
The K&R Man
Everybody’s got a price. Meet the man who sets it – a former negotiator in the kidnap-for-ransom industry. Yes, it’s an industry.
8 July 2025
Mind Invaders
Kidnapping. Boxing. Three-sided football. The art terrorists attack! A thoughtful dérive around the skewed contours of the London Psychogeographical Association.
23 June 2025
One! More! Song!
Does Battersea host the most basic night out in London? We sent our intrepid Gen-Z correspondent to find out.
17 June 2025
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.
10 June 2025
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.
9 June 2025
Ersatz G.B.
How do Lidl and Aldi get away with their imitation brands? We unpick the Cuthbert & Colin caterpillar wars.
5 June 2025
The Beadlean Library
Legendary presenter Jeremy Beadle had a big secret hiding in his Oxfordshire mansion.
3 June 2025
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.
29 May 2025
On Minge Lane
A dispatch from Worcestershire, famous for its sauce – and saucy street names. Our correspondent hears from the residents who suffer through sniggers when they give out their address.
21 May 2025