Since 2011, I have been dumped not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES on different Bonfire Nights. I’m very much a millennial Guy Fawkes.

I’m not quite sure why it’s taken me so long to get a copy of @thefence.bsky.social but oh my god. It’s full of words. Big, beautiful words. Thousands of ‘em. What a magazine.

Came for the Brandreth/Baker snog stayed for Melvyn Bragg and Richard Keys on the same sofa 👀

The newsletter has landed, this time with more Brandreth than ever before thefence.substack.com/p/off-the-fe...

I subscribed to the actual paper magazine of The Fence recently. I haven't subscribed to a magazine since I was 13. I love it. I can't get enough

The best piece of writing about wanking into a cup ever published, and that's a promise. Yoel Noorali had a date with a room, and gave us the dispatch. (Not literally.) www.the-fence.com/the-miracle-...

Remember: the best photo of Issue 25 'in the wild' will win a bottle of Bollinger champagne - all you need to do is send one through to [email protected] or you can tag us here

Issue 25 sunning itself in the Uzbek city of Caoimhe (pronounced 'Khiva'), courtesy of Richard L

What a photo! Here's Issue 25 at the Mount Beacon fire tower in the Hudson Valley

Been reading my new @thefence.bsky.social magazine. Very much enjoyed this sentence in Yoel Noorali’s ‘The Miracle of Childbirth’ about visiting a fertility clinic

Looking good at the LRB Bookshop

I wrote about my favourite Physical Media Shops in London, which I'll no doubt be seeing this weekend dropping off November's zine, for @thefence.bsky.social CAPITAL LETTER newsletter -- go retrace my steps and spend £££ on plastic and paper already thefencecapitalletter.substack.com/p/capital-le...

Obviously loved (and slightly envious of) this charmingly written piece on Locomotion No. 1’s modern day replica and what it means in the latest issue of @thefence.bsky.social

Issue 25 Is Sexy????

Capital Letter has the best theatre coverage going thefencecapitalletter.substack.com/p/capital-le...

Somewhat surreally, featuring EWE at The Balham...

A particularly bombastic edition of Capital Letter is now available for you all to read here: thefencecapitalletter.substack.com/p/capital-le...

'One night he decided to hire a rickshaw from Soho to Bethnal Green. Pete was toking from his crackpipe all the way when, out of nowhere, a gang from an estate began to chase us with machetes.' Katie Lewis remembers her time with Pete Doherty. www.the-fence.com/the-albion-r...

Well chuffed to have had a small involvement in Schott's Significa, the highly addictive new book by the author of Schott's Original Miscellany. It's a field guide to linguistic subcultures, and I collaborated on the section about the conventions of the comic strip.

Issue 25 has been spotted in Bologna

This piece is now Popbitch-certified

Deeply alluring photo of a subscriber on a hike

starting a magazine called The Fonce and it's just me badly rewriting articles from The Fence and mine costs thirty pounds and i end up losing my life savings in court and my wife takes the kids to canada and in 30 years a netflix crew come and find me and i say "i'd do it all again, no regrets"

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Issue 25 is providing FIRST AID at the Whittington Hospital

Make this piece your lunchtime read

Fantastic insider-ish account on what it's like to audition for a reality TV show.

This was good, also worth looking up his Chelsea article for Versus, as they are, I think, complimentary.

'Although I believed I was the kind of boy who liked bums, boobs, and Megan Barton-Hanson, I wondered why sex left me cold, and why intimate relationships with women filled me with dread.'

Snake Denton almost went on Love Island. www.the-fence.com/et-itv2-brute/

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a gentle reminder: always make sure to tell your parents which version of The Fence you want a subscription to. (the correct answer, obviously, is both.) @thefence.bsky.social

The Goodbye Horses Index, in which London's restaurants are ranked with scientific exactitude for that most important of qualities: sexiness

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How Issue 25 was meant to be consumed

Look at those happy faces

We are looking LOVELY @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk

Were the dwindling band of residents in Soho consulted about this proposal? www.the-fence.com/last-days-of...

Calling Architecture Bluesky: what one building in Britain deserves to be elevated to Grade 1 status? Do let us know in the comments below

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

Here's the latest Capital Letter, perhaps the best one we've published in some while thefencecapitalletter.substack.com/p/capital-le...

Solid start to the day - new issue of @thefence.bsky.social is out!

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Robin Lane Fox's rules for life, printed in the latest fabulous issue of @thefence.bsky.social

"In a New York magazine listicle about etiquette, writer Rachel Sugar wrote of how often she experiences this comparison, which she noted has led her to evaluate ‘the relative appeal of a pubescent victim of the Holocaust’."

Issue 25 is where it belongs