Alex Christian
@alexschristian.bsky.social
Design & illustration at @thefence.bsky.social by night, non-profit comms by day, embarrassingly online all the time
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Just found out about this magazine. Considering buying 10000 copies, maybe you should too
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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.)
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The Miracle of Childbirth
The gap between thought and action is never as narrow as it is for masturbating. Suddenly it’s happening. Suddenly it’s over. Suddenly you’re back at your desk. But if politics has taught us anything…
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November 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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.)
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No way does that get top billing
![Newtowncashel (Irish: Baile Nua an Chaisil, meaning 'new town of the fort')[1] is a village located near Lough Ree in County Longford, Ireland. Newtowncashel won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1980.[2]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:262xkwaxpqi7b6qnfbvwd6an/bafkreierlhedubgozssk2xghfc2u6mhop2k6q4mixnkauapxj37xcekmjq@jpeg)
September 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
No way does that get top billing
Really happy with how this illustration turned out. Would be even happier if you took the chance to subscribe to the mag!
We've only got a couple of tokens left on our summer sale. The code is ICECREAM20 at the checkout. Move quickly!
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August 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Really happy with how this illustration turned out. Would be even happier if you took the chance to subscribe to the mag!
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The best deal in magazines is even better for a few spare moments - run don't walk to rob us blind!
We've only got a couple of tokens left on our summer sale. The code is ICECREAM20 at the checkout. Move quickly!
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August 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The best deal in magazines is even better for a few spare moments - run don't walk to rob us blind!
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'In the week after our book, The Pub, is released, it's great to see the Daily Telegraph join us in lauding that great British institution... and in such a distinctive style too.
August 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
'In the week after our book, The Pub, is released, it's great to see the Daily Telegraph join us in lauding that great British institution... and in such a distinctive style too.
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Time to re-up our 2021 investigation into the figure that is Hilary Lawson, the property magnate and 'philosopher' behind HowTheLightGetsIn
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August 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Time to re-up our 2021 investigation into the figure that is Hilary Lawson, the property magnate and 'philosopher' behind HowTheLightGetsIn
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A treat from our new book, THE PUB.
We sent @clive_mart1n deep into the Cotswolds, long before the arrival of the Vances, to measure up the pubs and people currently cluttering the countryside. He was not a fan.
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We sent @clive_mart1n deep into the Cotswolds, long before the arrival of the Vances, to measure up the pubs and people currently cluttering the countryside. He was not a fan.
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You Can Ring My Bell
Clive goes to the Cotswolds
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August 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
A treat from our new book, THE PUB.
We sent @clive_mart1n deep into the Cotswolds, long before the arrival of the Vances, to measure up the pubs and people currently cluttering the countryside. He was not a fan.
www.the-fence.com/you-can-ring...
We sent @clive_mart1n deep into the Cotswolds, long before the arrival of the Vances, to measure up the pubs and people currently cluttering the countryside. He was not a fan.
www.the-fence.com/you-can-ring...
I drew some roses on my lunch break!
Anyway, get your dating mishaps in – we’ve got some good ones already.
Anyway, get your dating mishaps in – we’ve got some good ones already.
The Fence is FOR LOVERS, so for next issue's Fencepost, we want your most memorable, mundane, mortifying and miserable dating experiences.
So please reply, or issue a discrete DM, with your maddest, baddest, and raddest adventures in the dating game.
So please reply, or issue a discrete DM, with your maddest, baddest, and raddest adventures in the dating game.
August 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I drew some roses on my lunch break!
Anyway, get your dating mishaps in – we’ve got some good ones already.
Anyway, get your dating mishaps in – we’ve got some good ones already.
This is a great article. What are those proteins up to!
‘It is now believed that every known neurodegenerative disease – from Alzheimer’s to Parkinson’s to ALS to Huntington’s to general dementia – involves a prion-like protein.’
Stephen Buranyi on prions: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephen Buranyi on prions: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stephen Buranyi · Folding and Unfolding: Protein to Prion
How and why do proteins, which are produced by our body to build structures (such as skin and muscle) or carry out tasks...
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July 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This is a great article. What are those proteins up to!
An absolute punch in the gut for anyone, an additional smack around the face for someone who worked as a graphic designer/frontend developer in Berlin & Lisbon in 2016–17 (me). 5*
July 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
An absolute punch in the gut for anyone, an additional smack around the face for someone who worked as a graphic designer/frontend developer in Berlin & Lisbon in 2016–17 (me). 5*
“LOTS OF LOVE AND SEXY KISSES” – players just don’t write columns like this anymore
July 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“LOTS OF LOVE AND SEXY KISSES” – players just don’t write columns like this anymore
This is a good one. It’ll make you look up the price of some jackets. I can’t afford the jackets.
This is perhaps the most tasteful Money's No Object yet, in which Joe Bishop speaks to the legendary Jeremy Lee, of Quo Vadis fame. Do give it a listen here:
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Money's No Object #7: Jeremy Lee (Quo Vadis)
The capital's most charming chef yearns for the orchards of Kyrgyzstan
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July 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is a good one. It’ll make you look up the price of some jackets. I can’t afford the jackets.
Pub?
At long last, the greatest book of this young century is here.
The Fence is proud to present THE PUB - a guide to, and almanac of, all things pub and pubbing.
14 August.
£16.99.
Pre-order NOW with our official bookshop partner, Backstory.
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The Fence is proud to present THE PUB - a guide to, and almanac of, all things pub and pubbing.
14 August.
£16.99.
Pre-order NOW with our official bookshop partner, Backstory.
backstory.london/products/the...
The Pub by The Fence
We're proud to be The Fence's bookshop partner. Pre-order their latest book, The Pub, and it will be despatched on or around publication day, August 14th. Would Queen Victoria have been good value ove...
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July 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Pub?
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LONGFORM LEGENDS: a callout just for you. The Fence is looking for spectacular features – and we’re willing to pay up to four figures for your next bit of narrative non-fiction.
If you’ve got a twisty, thoughtful multi-act magazine piece up your sleeve, let us know at editorial@the-fence.com
If you’ve got a twisty, thoughtful multi-act magazine piece up your sleeve, let us know at editorial@the-fence.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
LONGFORM LEGENDS: a callout just for you. The Fence is looking for spectacular features – and we’re willing to pay up to four figures for your next bit of narrative non-fiction.
If you’ve got a twisty, thoughtful multi-act magazine piece up your sleeve, let us know at editorial@the-fence.com
If you’ve got a twisty, thoughtful multi-act magazine piece up your sleeve, let us know at editorial@the-fence.com
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From Luther Blissett to Harry Potter. From Dada to the Isle of Dogs. @thefence.bsky.social got Thomas Peermohamed Lambert to trace the ley lines of the London Psychogeographical Association, Britain’s most legendary ‘art terrorists’.
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Mind Invaders
Kidnapping. Boxing. Three-sided football. The art terrorists attack! A thoughtful dérive around the skewed contours of the London Psychogeographical Association.
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June 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
From Luther Blissett to Harry Potter. From Dada to the Isle of Dogs. @thefence.bsky.social got Thomas Peermohamed Lambert to trace the ley lines of the London Psychogeographical Association, Britain’s most legendary ‘art terrorists’.
www.the-fence.com/london-psych...
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From Luther Blissett to Harry Potter, Dada to the Isle of Dogs, Thomas Peermohamed Lambert traces the ley lines of the London Psychogeographical Association, Britain’s most legendary ‘art terrorists’.
www.the-fence.com/london-psych...
www.the-fence.com/london-psych...
Mind Invaders
In 1995, on a cycling holiday amid the snow-capped peaks of the Italo-Slovene border, a British conceptual artist went missing. Already famous for his boxing ceremonies – described by one critic as…
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June 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
From Luther Blissett to Harry Potter, Dada to the Isle of Dogs, Thomas Peermohamed Lambert traces the ley lines of the London Psychogeographical Association, Britain’s most legendary ‘art terrorists’.
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Advert by The Brewers' Society from 1954
June 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Advert by The Brewers' Society from 1954
Best bit of football writing I’ve read in a while ⚽
Hey! I wrote about Xabi Alonso to Real Madrid, and the broader relevance of what it means for the institution. Free to read. www.graceonfootball.com/p/can-xabi-a...
Can Xabi Alonso reinvent Real Madrid? Part One
We're into genuinely new territory here
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May 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Best bit of football writing I’ve read in a while ⚽
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On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies.
Solidarity 💜
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Solidarity 💜
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Support resources for our trans friends and allies | Good Law Project
At a time when anti-trans discrimination is rife and hate crime has reached record levels, it’s important to know what support is out there for trans, non-binary or gender-questioning individuals and ...
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April 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies.
Solidarity 💜
goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...
Solidarity 💜
goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...
Seashell Flowers, Max Ernst (1929)
April 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Seashell Flowers, Max Ernst (1929)
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Our greatest ever issue has landed. The Fence #23 comes with spanking new features from Emma Magnus, Róisín Lanigan, Peter Carlyon, Georgia Brown, Jimmy McIntosh, Ciaran Thrapar, Katie Lewis and myself. Fiction from Leo Robson and fabulous cover and illustrations from the wondrous Ed Steed! BUY IT!
April 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Our greatest ever issue has landed. The Fence #23 comes with spanking new features from Emma Magnus, Róisín Lanigan, Peter Carlyon, Georgia Brown, Jimmy McIntosh, Ciaran Thrapar, Katie Lewis and myself. Fiction from Leo Robson and fabulous cover and illustrations from the wondrous Ed Steed! BUY IT!
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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
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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
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April 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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'I have seen landmine injuries from years ago. I have seen men with 100 cigarette burns on their body; women who were separated from their husbands crossing Libya and can now barely speak of it.'
An anonymous dispatch from a clinical lead in an asylum hotel.
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An anonymous dispatch from a clinical lead in an asylum hotel.
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Hotel Britannica
What life is like when you’ve crossed the Channel.
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April 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
'I have seen landmine injuries from years ago. I have seen men with 100 cigarette burns on their body; women who were separated from their husbands crossing Libya and can now barely speak of it.'
An anonymous dispatch from a clinical lead in an asylum hotel.
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An anonymous dispatch from a clinical lead in an asylum hotel.
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Very excited to have illustrations in this!
We’re moving into print! Vittles Issue 1, our first ever print magazine, is now available to pre-order.
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March 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Very excited to have illustrations in this!
Evil bollocks as ever from Labour’s most committed pro-misery activist:
a) Are those ‘better paid jobs’... vacant?
b) Aren’t mental health problems overdiagnosed (Wes)?
c) If mental health support is so essential, why slash PIP for mental health support?
d) “If you can work” What if you can’t?
a) Are those ‘better paid jobs’... vacant?
b) Aren’t mental health problems overdiagnosed (Wes)?
c) If mental health support is so essential, why slash PIP for mental health support?
d) “If you can work” What if you can’t?
March 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Evil bollocks as ever from Labour’s most committed pro-misery activist:
a) Are those ‘better paid jobs’... vacant?
b) Aren’t mental health problems overdiagnosed (Wes)?
c) If mental health support is so essential, why slash PIP for mental health support?
d) “If you can work” What if you can’t?
a) Are those ‘better paid jobs’... vacant?
b) Aren’t mental health problems overdiagnosed (Wes)?
c) If mental health support is so essential, why slash PIP for mental health support?
d) “If you can work” What if you can’t?