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· Oct 9
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
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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
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A pleasure to be included on It's Nice That's Nice List: a subscription to The Fence is now certifiably 'nice'. Nice.
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The Nice List by It's Nice That
It’s Nice That’s curated gift guide of shops and makers.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A pleasure to be included on It's Nice That's Nice List: a subscription to The Fence is now certifiably 'nice'. Nice.
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Read The Pintlord's latest before it disappears behind the paywall
From the latest issue: James 'Jimmy (Dead Pubs) Mac' McIntosh, to give him all of his names, went in search of The Grogfather - a fugitive scion of the New Orleans mafia, who escaped to run a pub in Hampton Wick at the turn of the millennium.
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The Grogfather
At The Stryker’s Railway.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Read The Pintlord's latest before it disappears behind the paywall
From the latest issue: James 'Jimmy (Dead Pubs) Mac' McIntosh, to give him all of his names, went in search of The Grogfather - a fugitive scion of the New Orleans mafia, who escaped to run a pub in Hampton Wick at the turn of the millennium.
www.the-fence.com/the-grogfath...
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The Grogfather
At The Stryker’s Railway.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
From the latest issue: James 'Jimmy (Dead Pubs) Mac' McIntosh, to give him all of his names, went in search of The Grogfather - a fugitive scion of the New Orleans mafia, who escaped to run a pub in Hampton Wick at the turn of the millennium.
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Issue 25 is in Catalun-yah
November 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Issue 25 is in Catalun-yah
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only just realised I sent a photo with about 4 pixels in it: the original is much more impressive
November 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
only just realised I sent a photo with about 4 pixels in it: the original is much more impressive
Thanks to Sadia N for this photo of Issue 25 at the Pringle Bay Lagoon in Sarf Uhfrika
November 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Thanks to Sadia N for this photo of Issue 25 at the Pringle Bay Lagoon in Sarf Uhfrika
Two of the nation's obsessions meet
November 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Two of the nation's obsessions meet
This is some MAJESTIC advertising for Issue 25
November 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This is some MAJESTIC advertising for Issue 25
The Fence is one of the 10 best magazines of the last decade! Thanks to Jeremy Leslie for this wonderful write-up
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November 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The Fence is one of the 10 best magazines of the last decade! Thanks to Jeremy Leslie for this wonderful write-up
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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.
November 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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.
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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.
November 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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.
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Came for the Brandreth/Baker snog stayed for Melvyn Bragg and Richard Keys on the same sofa 👀
November 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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...
Off The Fence: I Can See For Gyles
And why aren't we talking more about Mandelson?
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November 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The newsletter has landed, this time with more Brandreth than ever before thefence.substack.com/p/off-the-fe...
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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.)
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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 10:52 AM
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-...
www.the-fence.com/the-miracle-...
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…
www.the-fence.com
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.)
www.the-fence.com/the-miracle-...
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 editorial@the-fence.com or you can tag us here
What a photo! Here's Issue 25 at the Mount Beacon fire tower in the Hudson Valley
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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 editorial@the-fence.com or you can tag us here
Issue 25 sunning itself in the Uzbek city of Caoimhe (pronounced 'Khiva'), courtesy of Richard L
November 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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
November 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
What a photo! Here's Issue 25 at the Mount Beacon fire tower in the Hudson Valley
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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
November 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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
November 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Looking good at the LRB Bookshop
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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...
Capital Letter #18
A guide to London's most secretive bases... and a lot more besides
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October 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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...
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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
November 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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????
October 31, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Issue 25 Is Sexy????
Capital Letter has the best theatre coverage going
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October 31, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Capital Letter has the best theatre coverage going
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Somewhat surreally, featuring EWE at The Balham...
A particularly bombastic edition of Capital Letter is now available for you all to read here:
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Capital Letter #18
A guide to London's most secretive bases... and a lot more besides
thefencecapitalletter.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Somewhat surreally, featuring EWE at The Balham...