Daily reminder that you are simply living inside a mass hallucination in which reality is subject to spasmodic fevers: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

column this week is about flegs

Being interviewed by the Creative Review is not something I ever anticipated happening (although they seem to have saved my bons mots for subscribers) www.creativereview.co.uk/good-reads-o...

I’d like to set up an SF prophecy index. Anyone got the coding skills? Which writer gets the most predictive hits. I mean obviously I’m biased but the premise of Ballard’s Kingdom Come is essentially the “soft fascist” flag proliferation seen in the UK over the last week.

Castle Bromwich Über Alles

You know what, I’m really glad I subscribed to @thefence.bsky.social earlier this year It does feel somewhat tailor made for my demographic - millennials of a certain age - and in that it reminds me of what made Vice so fresh in its early days, but without the bullshit (I say this as a compliment)

Had a lot fun talking about OFFAL #2 with my co-editor on the Monocle Stack podcast (from 24:40): monocle.com/radio/shows/...

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...

Our Tarot – Origins & Afterlives podcast series brings you talks from our recent symposium, held alongside the our exhibition on the history of tarot Explore: • Eliphas Levi & the Occult Tarot • Surrealism & the Tarot • The Visconti Tarocchi + more warburg.sas.ac.uk/search-podca... #Tarot

Back from hols and chuckling to myself as I listen to the most recent episode of OFFAL, free to air at our Steady page: steady.page/en/offal/pos... (one of my daughters recently told someone that if she sees me laughing, she knows I'm listening to my own stuff - oh god, that's bad - but this is ACE)

@thefence.bsky.social goes to Provence to be next to Leicester Square (after Monet). I trust that this offering will not be out-pretentioned this month.

Stone added that the team decided to put eyes on the penis, which would make it a character: “If we put eyes on the penis, we won’t blur it. That was a whole conversation with grown-up people for four fucking days.” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Thinking of doing a sandpaper cover for issue 3 of Offal - issue 2 available here - offaloffaloffal.com/publication in tribute to Jorn and Debord's Memoires. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9...

great piece - important read www.the-fence.com/the-send-sch... @thefence.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨 Emmanuel Carrère on Emmanuel Macron 🚨🚨🚨 www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

I am intrigued, even as I know that I would hate the reality of this: www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...

Latest episode of Offal, including an extract from the upcoming Offal #2 book. Conference Call Small Talk / Search History / The Only Way to Change Things is to Shoot Men Who Curate Things (by Iain Aitch) / A Message from Fleisch Smart Prosthetics steady.page/en/offal/posts

This evening we did an Offal Industries experimental writing workshop at the Centre for Contemporary Art at Goldsmiths and it was triumphant. The texts produced were awesome. We may publish some. And our AI puppets produced reliably weird readings. If anyone wants this experience hit us up.

You guys probably already subscribe to Off the Fence, but there's a big announcement in the new one, and a little squib from your ever-so-humble correspondent thefence.substack.com/p/off-the-fe...

“Private jets are like the canary in the coal mine here for a hyper unequal warming world,” Rutherford said.”

LRB hatchet job klaxon! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Some absolute zingers in here, among which my fave: “It’s hard to believe that, in the history of literature, an episode of rimming has ever been presented in such gauzy terms, made quite so desperately sentimental.”

Pariah Press #photobooks: Linden Archives Out & About with Linden 3 3 0 0 (& Ben Jackson's Ulysses Estate) now stocked at Biblioteka Library... Architectural Association 36 Beford Square, #London WC1B 3ES View by appointment. www.aaschool.ac.uk/pressrelease... #photography #libraries

A most excellent gargoyle water spout at Sherburn in Elmet church #medievalsky

More blogging. On collecting ephemera from people in the street. Also contains advice on how to look after a duck. open.substack.com/pub/scrapsan...

Over the last six years, we’ve built a reputation for breaking into worlds that other publications can't reach. If that’s something you want to support, there’s no better way than buying a year’s subscription, for just £19.99 a year the-fence.com/subscribe

On Tuesday night we put on an experimental independent magazine show, and it was great. Have a listen on the Stack blog to hear @thefence.bsky.social @vittles.bsky.social @offalindustries.bsky.social Real Review and The Paper on stage. stackmagazines.com/humour/an-ex...

Pic 1, New Viz came out a few days ago. Pic 2, Mr C, last night. Bless him. Guy can take a joke.

The Ballad of Wallis Island is an absolute joy. Tim Key’s facial expressions alone deserve awards.

Going to stay in Goathland this evening. It is a little misty today. Anyway, not expecting anything unusual. www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/v...

Everyone excited for the return of Adam Curtis tonight? Offal regular - check this episode at 14.05: steady.page/en/offal/pos... It's all very affectionate, of course. I interviewed him for Dazed back in 2011 and he was great: markblacklock.com/2011/09/29/a...

My goodness. You should read this. Jeremy Beadle- very interesting, I had no idea!

I am one of the "apocalypitcally disillusioned" refenced by James in this review of Steffan Colini's book on Eng Lit. I also have a daughter currently taking an English Literature A-level and another doing GCSE next year. Distraction is an issue, but so is what's been done to school English 1/

Tuesday night next week: Five awesome magazines together on stage for one night only. Book your £5 ticket to see @thefence.bsky.social @offalindustries.bsky.social @vittles.bsky.social The Paper and Real Review. This is going to be fun... stack-live.eventbrite.co.uk

I’m doing this online tomorrow, so just reupping this #gothic #MedHums — all very welcome

Some people are using AI tools to identify early synptoms of cancer. I'm using them to get Pam Ayres to read Aphex Twin lyrics. I think we all know who the real winner is here.

Future War Science Fiction commissioned by NATO last year. The anthology: www.ndc.nato.int/news/news.ph... and the graphic novel: www.ndc.nato.int/nato2099/rea...

VERY EXCITING NEWS We've been working on this all year, and our first podcast has landed. It asks the question: what would you do if you won uncountable millions? What would your first purchase be? And would the money send you mad? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

For many years, I've wanted to track down Jeremy Beadle's library, legendary in certain quarters. I did so for @thefence.bsky.social for their brilliant 23rd issue (the significance of the number will not be lost on Ken Campbell fans) www.the-fence.com/the-beadlean... @forteantimes.bsky.social

I mean we can talk all we like about Yarvin/Modlbug and the nudge-winkery of his schtick, but the baseline is that he is clearly an absolutely massive bellend (dress shirt and biker jacket?) and the intellectual aspect is fucking weak and always has been www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

A bit of vintage Humphreyana for those who practice www.facebook.com/TheGreatBrit...

Some nice things people have said about offal: ‘A hilarious yet hauntingly uncanny Blue Jam-style fusion of horror, sketch show and soundscape.’ – The Guardian

They're back! Our enamel pin badges pay tribute to some of our favourite independent magazine covers, shrunk down to just 30mm tall. Very pleased to have Offal, Broadcast, Erotic Review and Backstage Talks join our tiny ranks stackmagazines.com/product-type...

Come to our spoken word night / independent magazine fan club on 17th June and see @thefence.bsky.social , @vittles.bsky.social, @offalindustries.bsky.social and The Paper, live on stage. Tickets £5 from stack-live.eventbrite.co.uk

Nine magazines to help you cope with the world right now. Some of these magazines will help you re-engage with the news, while others will invite you into an alternate reality, but they will all leave you refreshed and ready to go again. stackmagazines.com/art-design/n...

Peter Reid just liked Coldwar Steve's Gary Linneker collage on X and that's pretty 2025

Absolutely cracking features journalism from Andrew Hankinson. Crime writing, about a tree: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Section on The Rest is Entertainment today about Eli Roth's Horror Section fundraiser. Can't resist sharing the fact that I met Eli in 1999. I was in the USA to write a series of adventure features for Bizarre magazine (biker festival in Montana, rodeo in Colorado, gator wrestling in Florida)

THIS WILL BE FUN PLEASE COME

I loved this Long Read, and huge kudos to @harryshukman.bsky.social for going undercover amongst these fucknuckles. I donate to @hopenothate.org.uk for this purpose so delighted to see the funds being put to good use. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...