Facts
Reporting, profiles, and non-fiction from the print edition.
Roots Manoeuvres
A dispatch from one of the most singular club nights in Britain, right next to Heathrow Airport.
13 May 2025
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.
24 April 2025
Requiem for a Scene
The Albion Rooms. Queens of Noize. The Hawley Arms. A musician remembers London in 2002.
15 April 2025
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.
10 April 2025
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.
4 April 2025
Getting the Band Back Together
In my fortieth year I was going to be in a band. And I was going to be unfuckable.
13 March 2025
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.
11 March 2025
Psychopaths’ Comic-Con
Meet the people who glorify the worst people in society for money.
25 February 2025
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.
20 February 2025
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.
5 February 2025
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.
29 January 2025
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.
16 January 2025