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Sep 14, 2024 | 
livpost.co.uk | Thomas Gorton
By Thomas GortonSome of my most vivid memories of childhood are from the back of my dad’s car, specifically on the way back from Great Harwood, a small town near Blackburn where my grandparents lived. It makes sense that I remember these moments so clearly, given that it was an established format repeated many times.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
open.substack.com | Thomas Gorton
By Thomas GortonSome of my most vivid memories of childhood are from the back of my dad’s car, specifically on the way back from Great Harwood, a small town near Blackburn where my grandparents lived. It makes sense that I remember these moments so clearly, given that it was an established format repeated many times.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Margaret McCartney |Francisco Garcia |Francisco García |Thomas Gorton
A general practitioner in Glasgow unpacks how the hand-in-glove relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and the NHS has changed – for the worse. Junior doctors are overworked, underslept, abused by the healthcare system and generally downtrodden. So, a few decades ago, when a kindly lady knocked upon the hospital office door (a cupboard, really) to offer us juniors an educational session with free dinner, I felt momentarily loved.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Francisco Garcia |Francisco García |Thomas Gorton |Sophie Elmhirst
Meeting a Dutch sexual terrorist. The Dutch far-right personality Sid Lukkassen and the French novelist Michel Houellebecq have a lot in common. Both have publicly bemoaned the fate of unattractive men in the ‘sexual marketplace’. Both have written novels pondering a jihadist takeover of their respective countries. Both have found themselves appearing in, and then distancing themselves from, pornographic films, with a woman who taunts their inadequacies in the name of artistic provocation.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Francisco Garcia |Francisco García |Thomas Gorton |Sophie Elmhirst
The Fence toes the party line. You’ve felt it at some point, surely, when the £250 bar tab runs out at some miserable adult playground picked out for your team by the ‘socials coordinator’. Your hairs have stood on end as the startling thwack of axe against target board is the only sound that punctuates the din of Hotline Bling. ‘All work parties can’t be this lame,’ you wonder. ‘There’s got to be some cool ones out there.’Don’t quit your day job just yet.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Francisco Garcia |Francisco García |Thomas Gorton |Sophie Elmhirst
Pondering the future of crime reporting. On a comically miserable February morning, I made my way to Inner London Crown Court, a few minutes’ walk from the sodden chaos of Elephant and Castle station. Having jostled through security, a helpful staff member directed me across the building to a thin corridor populated by a smattering of uncomfortably suited coppers and crumpled solicitors. A few pensive defendants completed the scene, staring hard ahead or into phone screens.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Thomas Gorton |Miles Ellingham |Cormac Kehoe |Charlie Baker
Can you still hear the sound of the Blair era? In 2005, on the quiet suburban streets of Merthyr Tydfil, a jarringly uncomfortable noise begun outside a shop. It was pulsing four times a second at a frequency intended only to be detected by young people – roughly those aged between 13 and 25. This was the ‘Mosquito’, a soon-to-be controversial sonic weapon and security device invented by Howard Stapleton, created with the intention of preventing young people from loitering.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
the-fence.com | Francisco Garcia |Francisco García |Thomas Gorton |Sophie Elmhirst
Raising a toast to the worst new building in Britain. The results are in. The Fence has found a winner for the Carbuncle Cup, crowning what we believe to be the very worst new building in Britain to be opened since 31 August 2018, the last time the award was handed out. The buildings were nominated by the public and then judged by a panel of experts.
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Aug 11, 2023 | 
theface.com | Thomas Gorton
The Premier League is almost back. Last Sunday’s Community Shield was the marker for the end of a summer that never really started, and this Friday night, the season kicks off proper with Man City starting their title defence at newly promoted Burnley. The league’s return means the transfer window is only a few weeks away from closing, which means fewer people drawing up 38-tweet threads profiling press-resistant midfielders from Fenerbahce’s U18 team.
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Jun 15, 2023 | 
vice.com | Thomas Gorton
Insassen posieren nach einem Videodreh | Alle Fotos: Dione RoachWas als Beschäftigungstherapie begann, ist schnell eine Quelle für richtig guten Gangstarap geworden. Jetzt, wo er wieder aus dem Knast ist, verdient Magloire Noumedem sein Geld auf den Straßen von Douala – wo immer er kann. In Kameruns Hafenmetroprole fährt der 31-Jährige Taxi, putzt und arbeitet als Atalaku DJ, eine Art Entertainer für Privatpartys. Dabei tritt er vor reichen Menschen auf und heizt das Publikum an.
