Across Europe and America, organised gangs are raiding shops, warehouses and homes for Pokémon cards worth up to $5 million. Will police catch ’em all? Tamlin Magee reports: dispatch-media.com/the-global-p...

Royal Shrovetide Football has been described as the "world's most violent ball game". But how long will it survive? Jack Burke reports, with photography by Chris Bethell: dispatch-media.com/englands-wil...

"It’s a few minutes before 10am on a dreary January morning in Glasgow, and I’m the only woman in a corridor full of men." I started my 2026 camped out in Glasgow's domestic abuse court. Read all about it @dispatchmedia.bsky.social (you can sign up for free!) dispatch-media.com/inside-europ...

Court 16 at Glasgow Sheriff Court deals solely with domestic abuse. But what does that look like, day after day? Over two months, @everebecca.bsky.social watched from the public gallery. Read her report below: dispatch-media.com/inside-europ...

After a cancer diagnosis, Will Self had to travel everywhere by car. Shuttled between home and hospital by immigrant Uber drivers, he began to notice a different city unfolding outside the window. In today’s piece, he reflects on those journeys: dispatch-media.com/will-self-ho...

There's wine. There's chanting. There's even a wooden phallus. 2,000 years after the last sacrifices on Mount Olympus, the ancient gods are back. Fonie Mitsopoulou reports on Greece's polytheistic revival: dispatch-media.com/the-return-o...

What does romance look like in a city ruled by algorithms? Can love survive the optimisation mindset? Rachel Dec reports from San Francisco: dispatch-media.com/how-to-find-...

Deep in the Forest of Dean, a dwindling group of men are keeping alive a centuries-old tradition. They are called Freeminers — and there are barely a hundred left. @milesellingham.bsky.social reports from the coalface: dispatch-media.com/the-last-of-...

How do 700,000 cows go missing? That’s the question gripping Uruguay, after a violent death exposed a Ponzi scheme that fooled a nation. What happened next? Meredith Jackson reports: dispatch-media.com/how-do-70000...

Forget Nigel Farage. Forget Keir Starmer. What if the two most most influential figures in British politics were a pair of Essex geezers who love enormous dinners and saying “Bosh!”? @laurabeveridge.bsky.social reports from Romford: dispatch-media.com/the-battle-o...

This is going to be loads of fun. Independent magazines on stage, at St Brides on Thursday night, with @thefence.bsky.social, Die Quieter Please, @dispatchmedia.bsky.social, and Piscine. Tickets are £6.50 and all proceeds go to St Brides. Come join us! billetto.co.uk/e/stack-inde...

Shout out to @dispatchmedia.bsky.social which is consistently publishing some of the most interesting, well written features on the UK (and occasionally US) out there. Their weekend newsletter, which highlights content elsewhere too, is also great. dispatch-media.com/how-to-be-ha...

Slab City is described as 'the last free place in America'. But what's it really like? Jack Burke ventured to the Californian desert outpost. It wasn't pretty. Link below. dispatch-media.com/slab-citys-f...

what's the happiest place in england like on the saddest day of the year? and WHY does it smell like that?? i investigate for @dispatchmedia.bsky.social dispatch-media.com/how-to-be-ha...

Skipton in North Yorkshire is officially the "happiest place in England". But what's it like on the most miserable day of the year? @roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports: dispatch-media.com/how-to-be-ha...

How did a 21-year-old student mastermind a phishing empire that stole £100m from victims in 24 countries? Drawing on court records, private Telegram channels and interviews with those who knew him, Fin Carter reveals how Ollie Holman almost got away with it: dispatch-media.com/the-student-...

Trailer parks aren’t just an American phenomenon — thousands of people live on them in Britain. New data obtained by Dispatch shows that in just one English county, fires break out almost every fortnight. @jacobfuredi.bsky.social tells the story of one of them: dispatch-media.com/the-burning-...

Constable Country is one of England’s most cherished landscapes — immortalised in the paintings of John Constable. But what if those paintings were forgeries? @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social: dispatch-media.com/the-great-en...

40 years ago this week, in a quiet cul-de-sac in Tottenham, an Islamist group called al-Muhajiroun was born. Its aim was to create an English caliphate. Tam Hussein reports on its legacy: dispatch-media.com/englands-hom...

This is a brilliant dispatch from Nottingham, the table top gaming capital of the world, and its "lead belt" dispatch-media.com/the-warhamme...

Once upon a time, Nottingham powered England with coal. Today, its biggest export are goblin figurines. @petercarlyon.bsky.social reports from the Warhammer capital of the world:

A year ago this week, two wildfires tore through Los Angeles. One ravaged a wealthy enclave in the Palisades. Another destroyed the poorer neighbourhood of Altadena. This is the story of the second fire, by Jack Burke.

Meet Father Seraphim, the Romanian monk leading an Orthodox revival on a remote Scottish island — with a little help from YouTube. Huw Paige

From Tommy Robinson's 'Holy Spirit Hooligans' to a shadowy group called the King’s Army, a militant Christian revival is taking shape across Britain. Fred Sculthorp meets England's new crusaders:

Locals across the country are waging a guerilla war against Roots, a VC-backed start-up offering private allotments. Laura Beveridge reports:

Britain has an empty-homes crisis — and nowhere shows it more starkly than Horden, a former pit village. Jonathan McAloon spent a month with the residents fighting to save it. Last week, the council ruled it would be knocked down.

"Politics is my work, for sure." A few weeks before Martin Parr died, he sat down with Dispatch to discuss his legacy. Read the interview below:

Is Bitcoin dead? Not according to Britain's Bitcoin's ultras. They still believe it can cure all of society's ills — from inflation and immigration to welfare and war. Ed Campbell reports:

I spent two days in America’s most notorious open drug scene, hearing how the new tranq, medetomidine, has the most fast-acting and dangerous withdrawal symptoms of all drugs. And why its prevalence is the result of the drug war. For @dispatchmedia.bsky.social dispatch-media.com/the-real-peo...

“You do it, you wake up, you’re sick,” says Christine. “You don’t even know you’re passing out.” @matthabusby.bsky.social reports from Kensington Avenue, Philadelphia, where a new drug called medetomidine is being mixed with fentanyl.

For @dispatchmedia.bsky.social, i went up to Sheffield to chart the legacy of city's radical past dispatch-media.com/the-commune-...

"My only regret in life,” says John The Map, “is saying no to a ménage à trois with two Norwegian lesbians in 1987.” Forget Marianne and Connell — for today's piece, Jack Burke tracked down the true hero of County Sligo:

travelled down to an ultra-wealthy enclave in Dorset to ask people about the budget. But I just found this weird eerie feeling, which I attempted to describe for @dispatchmedia.bsky.social . Amazing photography from Harry Mitchell.

Incredible piece of reporting on Sandbanks, "England's most expensive neighbourhood", and its neighbour, the declining seaside town of Poole. England's two countries, richly drawn @dispatchmedia.bsky.social dispatch-media.com/the-empty-so...

"Everyone here walks around with a glazed expression. You can imagine them ambling contentedly into the waves." @milesellingham.bsky.social reports from Sandbanks, often dubbed "Britain's Palm Springs".

"I had just been informed that the doctors wanted to drill a hole directly into my guts, effectively making my penis redundant. It was proving quite a lot to take in." Paul Sagar on the dysfunction of the NHS's wheelchair services:

From the jungles of the Amazon to... County Westmeath. A network of ayahuasca retreats has taken root across Ireland. Fin Carter reports on the fall-out:

Cajun hookers, cold beer and a gator-filled swamp. What's life like in the town nicknamed 'the end of the world'? @jacobfuredi.bsky.social reports from Venice, Louisiana:

Forget No Nut November — meet the men practising semen retention all year round. By Colette Fountain.

"What if Jonathan Bryan wasn't communicating in his own words at all?" A startling investigation by @garynunn.bsky.social into the so-called "miracle cure" known as Facilitated Communication:

Since 1982, a band of peace activists have camped out in the forest next to Britain's Trident nuclear arsenal. How are they faring? Euan Dawtrey dug out his sleeping bag and headed to Faslane:

In deepest Cornwall, a coven of witches is steadily growing in power — using spells, potions and... WhatsApp. @marianneeloise.bsky.social reports:

For $40, you can buy a masaje in the middle of Queens. Welcome to New York City's red-light district. Claudia Steenhard reports:

“Nothing has changed.” 20 years after a series of banilieus erupted in France, Peter Yeung reports from the Chêne Pointu estate where it all began:

Earlier this month, Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to Portland. He claimed the city was “burning to the ground”. The reality on the ground was somewhat different. Valen Lambert reports:

"I was, as Danny Dyer would say, on their manor." Jack Burke goes in search of Britain's Hells Angels — and finds them at a Kentish garden party. Link below.

An IRA bomber, a Scottish miner, a Toxteth rioter, a Welsh 'lout'. How are they faring today? Ahead of her centenary, @jacobfuredi.bsky.social reports from the frontlines of Thatcher's Britain:

"It turns you into a loner, that’s the problem with this job." María Sonia Cristoff returns to Patagonia's ghost towns — where she finds a oil man imprisoned by solitude.

Across the Alps, migrants are traversing mountain trails in an attempt to cross into France. Peter Yeung reports on Europe's Alpine migration crisis:

Mark Steele is a self-described polymath, weapons expert and whistleblower. He's also the leading figure in Britain's anti-5G movement. Jake Shepherd reports: