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1 week ago | 
politicshome.com | Jimmy McIntosh |Alain Tolhurst
4 min read
With the Commons in recess, the podcast has headed down to the pub again to discuss the UK’s hospitality industry and the struggles it continues to face. A host of global headwinds and domestic policy contribute to a bleak outlook for the sector in 2025.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Bertie Brandes |Margaret Mitchell |Jimmy McIntosh
Why are women no longer having sex? You’ve already picked up this magazine, so it’s clear you fancy yourself as something of a non-conformist. Perhaps you think you know what it feels like to exist in the shadowy outskirts of society. But I am here to out myself as a member of a community so taboo it doesn’t even have a representational hashtag, let alone a Barclays Pride float.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Margaret Mitchell |Jimmy McIntosh |Margaret McCartney
We ask some more stupid questions to one half of Rizzle Kicks. We could not be clearer about the terms of this challenge: 146 questions, 146 seconds – no gimmicks, no softballs, just a timer and some silly propositions. Eighteen-stone goal machine, Adebayo Akinfenwa, got through ten; millennial everywoman, Dolly Alderton, set a new record with twelve. Who fancies their chances this time around?
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Roisin Lanigan |Margaret Mitchell |Jimmy McIntosh |Margaret McCartney
Truly the people’s café. It was a frigid, grey January morning in 1989 when Abdul Basit made the chance celebrity sighting that would change his life. The story of how it happened has been repeated so many times in the years since that it’s become a legend in itself. He was preparing to begin another unremarkable day, getting ready to launch his new business, an unassuming little café tucked away in that part of west London where Notting Hill meets Bayswater Road.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Jimmy McIntosh |Margaret McCartney
Following a famous footballers’ binge. On 13 September 2001, Chelsea were due to play a UEFA Cup first round home fixture against Bulgarian outfit PFC Levski Sofia. Unfortunately, due to geopolitical events two days prior, that week’s Champions League and UEFA Cup fixtures were respectfully called off. This left Chelsea players with a rare day to themselves on 12 September. How would you fill a free 24 hours as an elite athlete? A spot of golf? A day with the family?
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Jimmy McIntosh |Margaret McCartney
What does it mean to handle sensitive information? We spoke to a suite of nodes from across the pipeline to learn more about the power of confidential intel, in all of its forms. THE CORRESPONDENTNeave Barker, Al Jazeera’s one-time man in Moscow Keeping secrets in Russia was difficult. Day-to-day life was knowing full well that we were under surveillance. There were various layers to it, depending on what story you were working on at the time. The Russians are quite good at it.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Jimmy McIntosh |Margaret McCartney
We asked another squadron of journalists to tell us about the most excruciating pitches they’ve ever sent. joe bishopI spent about a year trying to convince VICE to let me spend an entire working day in the toilet. eva wisemanMany years ago, when I was an intern at The Face, I was really excited to be invited in to meet the then features editor of Vogue. I sat beside her desk while she continued working, and awkwardly reeled off some ideas.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Charlotte Ivers |Margaret Mitchell |Jimmy McIntosh
Retracing the Fourth Doctor’s
legendary Soho spree. To be young – or youngish – in London is to have missed out on something. Missed out on what, nobody is quite clear. But wander through Soho at chucking-out time – some time after the watershed but before a nine-year-old’s bedtime – and the conversation will invariably drift towards the same place. Wasn’t there a time before this?
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
politicshome.com | Zoe Crowther |Jimmy McIntosh
8 min read
Few sectors of industry have taken more of a beating in the last few years than that of the British pub. Jimmy McIntosh has been documenting those in London that have died, and asks what it means for the communities they serve
There are many different types of public house.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Tim Wyatt |Eve Webster |Jimmy McIntosh |Louis Elton
Our plan to revive theatreland. Theatre in London is wildly expensive these days, much like everything else. But the current programme of reheated classics and declassé musicals will mean that theatre in London will soon be irrelevant and unpopular, which would be a bad thing. So, behold: our plan to save the jewel in London’s cultural crown. Thriller – Live. No, Seriously.
