Issue 04 · October 2026
GET LOST
On a road to nowhere with Britain's broken bus services.
An independently minded magazine about the things we’re apparently supposed to accept.
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Writing · 01
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU
The long and winding road out of a Devon village, and the peculiar business of being free in a country that assumes everybody drives.
Writing · 02
THE £1,000 CHEAP HOUSE
The trouble with making homes affordable by making them worse.
Observations · 03
DOES EVERYTHING REALLY NEED AN APP?
Imagine, noble reader, that you were suddenly rendered extremely old or infirm by some sort of DWP Incapacity Ray. You wake in a world where there are four competing ways to pay for sodding
Observations · 04
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HR WAS FUCKING WILD, DUDE.
The ancient Egyptian royal court was not known for its enlightened employment practices. Early dynastic burials have long prompted discussion about whether some attendants died to accompany
Ideas · 05
PUT THE BUS BACK
It's not a bold solution. This is the chief obstacle to its adoption.
Ideas · 06
BUILD HOUSES FOR THEIR SECOND OWNER
Here's a thought: what if we built houses on the assumption that someone would want to live in them after the first person had finished admiring the kitchen?
Ideas · 07
MAKE THE INTERNET SHIT AGAIN
Not broken. Not dial-up. Not a return to a time when downloading a photograph required making everyone in the house agree not to use the telephone. We're proposing a different sort of shit:
Culture · 08
1965 WASN'T 1965 YET
What history forgets about the people who didn't get invited to the revolution.
Bad Takes · 09
TRÁ PHÁIDÍN — CLOCH'S CLAÍ
Now then, this is proper-weird gear. Galway folk (we think) colliding with varying degrees of success with obvious bedfellows like mariachi, motorik and political rage. We like oddness, thou
Bad Takes · 10
PLEASUREWOOD — ELECTRIC TELEPATHY
Anyone remember Khruangbin? Whatever happened to them, eh? Maybe they got reeeeeally fucking high, listened to this record and decided to pack it in. Electric Telepathy is lazy, hazy, delay-
Bad Takes · 11
THE BEATLES — RUBBER SOUL, AGAIN
Struggling beat-combo the Beatles (with an A) return, again, this time for another session on the nation's collective record player.
The Last Word · 12
THE WORLD HAS NOT RUN OUT OF THINGS
There are strange villages, buses that ought to run, houses worth making properly, records you haven't heard and people who know things you don't. There are little stories all over the place