Alex Christian
@alexschristian.com
Design & illustration at @thefence.bsky.social by night, non-profit comms by day, embarrassingly online all the time
@strongmisgiving.bsky.social @stefmowords.bsky.social I’m coming up to the Fringe next week to see this show my girlfriend is producing – shall we have a succubus-named show union? underbellyedinburgh.co.uk/event/succubus
Underbelly
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Huge new investigation from @coramazov.bsky.social on the Afghan trio who pioneered the model of the 'dodgy shop' that litter Britain's high streets. the-fence.com/article/grav...
The Graveyard of Empires
Cormac Kehoe went shopping for a souvenir.
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Pam Hogg was known as a party girl and a punk but she was also a brilliant, brilliant fashion designer. Why didn't she become a household name? Lauren Cochrane threads the tale of the Queen of Paisley. the-fence.com/wham-pam-tha...
Wham, Pam, Thank You Ma’am
Pam Hogg’s name will be familiar to anyone who enjoys reading about other people’s parties. A nightlife personality and a party girl with trademark highlighter-yellow hair, she might be photographed…
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Check this out... The Fence is on Channel 4 News as the Carbuncle Cup winners are revealed. youtu.be/wkfaZrwGWic?...
Are these really the worst buildings in the UK?
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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One of our staffers has worked out who it is
Mollie Goodfellow@hansmollman.bsky.social · 2mo agoGenuinely wow
Memorable in a kind of sums-me-up way – I asked my parents to take me to Croydon IKEA for my 12th birthday. We didn’t need to get anything, don’t even remember what we bought (pillows, a suitcase maybe?) but what a delight to wend through the showrooms and market halls. Would do again
For Issue 28's Fencepost, we want to know about your most memorable birthday: it could be for good reasons, or it could be more mortifying ones: either way, let us know in the comments below.
My experience of seeing them both in person is that their heads are remarkably similar in shape and size
John Allison@badmachinery.com · 3mo agoI have become fixated on the idea that Starmer and Streeting are secretly father and son. In the picture you see here, Streeting fumes because while Daddy is allowed a real coffee drink, he only gets a "babyccino".
Quick they put my new column up without a paywall for a few hours and I will live to regret posting this the-fence.com/how-do-you-k...
How Do You Know Liz Truss?
And now for some Champagne
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Their job is to make sure people don’t
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 5mo agoDo they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?
it’s only an echo chamber when it’s the left. when it’s the right they call it some bullshit like the Agora or the Town Square
Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 5mo agoI’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it
🚨My first @thefence.bsky.social investigation reveals how an enigmatic Greco-Russian billionaire is transporting billions of dollars’ worth of sanctioned Russian oil and gas to Europe and beyond.🚨 Read "Barrels of Black Gold" below! thefence.substack.com/p/off-the-fe...
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-...
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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Really happy with how this illustration turned out. Would be even happier if you took the chance to subscribe to the mag!
The Fence@thefence.bsky.social · 11mo agoWe've only got a couple of tokens left on our summer sale. The code is ICECREAM20 at the checkout. Move quickly! www.the-fence.com/shop/
The best deal in magazines is even better for a few spare moments - run don't walk to rob us blind!
The Fence@thefence.bsky.social · 11mo agoWe've only got a couple of tokens left on our summer sale. The code is ICECREAM20 at the checkout. Move quickly! www.the-fence.com/shop/
'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.
Time to re-up our 2021 investigation into the figure that is Hilary Lawson, the property magnate and 'philosopher' behind HowTheLightGetsIn www.the-fence.com/the-ideas-man/
The Ideas Man
What’s the philosophy behind paying graduates £13,000 a year?
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Huw C. Davies@huwcdavies.bsky.social · 12mo agoWondering if Curtis Yarvin speaking at a middle class festival in London with a host of mainstream figures is some kind of joke.
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...
You Can Ring My Bell
Clive goes to the Cotswolds
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I drew some roses on my lunch break! Anyway, get your dating mishaps in – we’ve got some good ones already.
The Fence@thefence.bsky.social · 12mo agoThe 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.
This is a great article. What are those proteins up to!
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last yr.‘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...
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
This is a good one. It’ll make you look up the price of some jackets. I can’t afford the jackets.
The Fence@thefence.bsky.social · last yr.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: thefence.substack.com/p/moneys-no-...
Pub?
The Fence@thefence.bsky.social · last yr.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. backstory.london/products/the...
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
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...
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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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...
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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