New blip on my slang-watch radar: "zebra striping" -- spotted from @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social today at @nytopinion.nytimes.com: "Gen-Z drinkers . . . are often drinking low-alcohol beer and alternating each round (or 'zebra striping') with a nonalcoholic drink."

Issue 26 is here 📸 With a cover from @daveyjones.bsky.social and work from Tamlin Magee, @garyiship.bsky.social, Ella Benson Easton, @williamasclarke.bsky.social, Zara Meerza, Antonia Bentel, @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social & more www.the-fence.com/shop/

A full house last night for our talk about THE PUB with @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social (seen here, signing books).

On 22 October, we'll be talking all things about THE PUB with @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social in north London's finest bookshop. There'll be pints afterwards at one of NW5's many excellent boozers. Some tickets remaining here owlbookshop.co.uk/product/an-e...

The Pub Is Finally Open! With writing from @seamas.bsky.social, @roisinlanigan.bsky.social, @anakinsella.bsky.social, @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social, @charlotteivers.bsky.social, John Banville and @vizcomic.bsky.social. Available at all bookstores & the link below 🍺 www.penguin.co.uk/books/462310...

In the second episode of our new podcast, Money's No Object, Joe Bishop asks England's premier pintlord, @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social, what he would do if he came into a fortune. thefence.substack.com/p/moneys-no-...

Issue 23 Is Here 🦈 With work from @emmafmagnus.bsky.social, @drblacklock.bsky.social, @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social, @seamas.bsky.social, @roisinlanigan.bsky.social, @louisstaples.bsky.social, @dwhitehouse.bsky.social, @williamasclarke.bsky.social & more www.the-fence.com/shop/

5. Drew a pie with a bullet hole in it – first time for everything – for @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social ’s new piece about how Canning Town has changed over the years: www.the-fence.com/a-bit-of-liq...

Our pints correspondent, @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social has returned with a dispatch from Canning Town. www.the-fence.com/a-bit-of-liq...

The best list you’ll ever see

In conjunction with @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social, we present the best pubs in the capital. thefencecapitalletter.substack.com/p/capital-le...

Sultry from @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social

I’m 26 pubs off 1000 London pubs visited. What should pub 1000 be?

Labour going “all in” on AI is very funny, as if it’s some catch-all thing that’ll solve all of England’s problems

The William Shakespeare in Baku looks amazing

Liverpool complete a pass challenge

Finally deleted Twitter off my phone. Couldn’t hack another “The Strangest Images The World Has Ever Seen 🧵” interspersed with the Fourteen Words

Come on guys let’s get Jimmy to 1000 followers 🙏

New Year commute disaster: Northern line trains are now stopping at Kentish Town, adding an extra 45 seconds to my journey

Canning Town

Interiors of the Year, 2024

I really thought I’d enjoy the City downfall more than I am

Last year I spent Christmas Day in some of London’s busiest hotel and restaurant kitchens, for @financialtimes.com (and it was actually really nice) www.ft.com/content/ddb2...

Went to Jinli in Chinatown last night. My word, what a place

Essex / London borders, part deux

The ambience at the Barrel Vault… worst Spoons in London?

Sometimes when I’m hungover I wish I lived in Dollis Hill

My 6th most played song on Spotify this year was the theme to Season 1 of The Wire

Extraordinary things are happening in Dagenham

By far the best thing about here is having this back

I’m in the FT talking about the curious phenomenon of home pubs. www.ft.com/content/a1db...

Can’t wait for everyone’s Charli xcx Instagram Stories tonight.

Wednesday vibe

Birkenhead is a paradise

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Woolton is a paradise

Come on Bluesky, let’s get some prayers up in the chat. Who remembers proper King’s Cross before those nasty Tories took over! Led By Donkeys are very cool btw

'On the periphery of the capital’s inner core, as the boroughs of Islington and Camden intersect, you’ll find a drinking district where the pipes are pumping and the saturnalia of old London still clings on: King’s Cross.' www.the-fence.com/looking-for-...

Reject modernity / embrace tradition

@johnnywreallyx2.bsky.social well, well, well

Good time in Torquay this weekend

Wiltshire is a fascinating county because it feels like where the quaint dread and paganism of Deep England meets the cul-de-sac, retail park mentality of the M4 corridor. And then with a load of army bases chucked in for good measure.

Here is my account of a long weekend I spent camping in Oregon with Bigfoot believers, out today in FT Weekend www.ft.com/content/5a80...

It’s amazing that places are still doing brioche for savoury things in 2024. Had a brioche bacon sandwich earlier from Paddington, truly atrocious.

Where am I going?

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