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Alex Christian

@alexschristian.com
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Design & illustration at @thefence.bsky.social‬ by night, non-profit comms by day, embarrassingly online all the time

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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sacha Jafri sold an artwork for $62 million dollars in 2021 at an auction. But the money never changed hands. What happened? the-fence.com/article/impo...
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Impossibility Is a Myth
Sacha Jafri sold an artwork for $62 million dollars in 2021 at an auction. But the money never changed hands. What happened?
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 03/09/2026
@phoeberoi.bsky.social do you have the Tim Curry picture
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Xhxxax @txomxs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
WHAT WENT WRONG, ROMEO? For Issue 29's Fencepost, we're asking you: what are your funniest first date stories? The best entries will be featured in the next issue, and please remember: funny stories only.
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 03/08/2026
@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
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Underbelly
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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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...
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The Graveyard of Empires
Cormac Kehoe went shopping for a souvenir.
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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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...
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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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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Check this out... The Fence is on Channel 4 News as the Carbuncle Cup winners are revealed. youtu.be/wkfaZrwGWic?...
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Are these really the worst buildings in the UK?
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
One of our staffers has worked out who it is
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 22/05/2026
catfishing.net #698 - 9/10 🎉 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈 🐈🐈🐈🐟🐈
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catfishing - the Wikipedia guessing game
Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day.
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 18/05/2026
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
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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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.
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 14/05/2026
My experience of seeing them both in person is that their heads are remarkably similar in shape and size
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Sophie Heawood @heawood.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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...
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How Do You Know Liz Truss?
And now for some Champagne
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 08/03/2026
Their job is to make sure people don’t
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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
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Cormac Kehoe @coramazov.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🚨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...
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 08/12/2025
Met a curlew in Thamesmead
A curlew standing in the shallow waters of the Thames at Crossness
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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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-...
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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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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 26/09/2025
No way does that get top billing
Newtowncashel (Irish: Baile Nua an Chaisil, meaning 'new town of the fort')[1] is a village located near Lough Ree in County Longford, Ireland. Newtowncashel won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1980.[2]
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 28/08/2025
Really happy with how this illustration turned out. Would be even happier if you took the chance to subscribe to the mag!
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The best deal in magazines is even better for a few spare moments - run don't walk to rob us blind!
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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
'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.
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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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/
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The Ideas Man
What’s the philosophy behind paying graduates £13,000 a year?
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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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...
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You Can Ring My Bell
Clive goes to the Cotswolds
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 12/08/2025
I drew some roses on my lunch break! Anyway, get your dating mishaps in – we’ve got some good ones already.
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 25/07/2025
This is a great article. What are those proteins up to!
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 20/07/2025
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*
Photo of ‘Perfection’ by Vicenzo Latronico
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 18/07/2025
“LOTS OF LOVE AND SEXY KISSES” – players just don’t write columns like this anymore
A clipping of “Captian Gary’s Chat” from the “Red All Over” fanzine, reading “I am Gary Brabin who recently was given the great honour to be Captain of Doncaster Rovers. I can't really explain the feeling of leading the team out.
There is more to being Captain than just wearing an arm band. I would just like to thank the Boss Sammy Chung and Ken Richardson for standing by me and giving me this great honour.
As fans will know I have got bags of ambition and would love to be the Captain when Rovers get promotion this season. Although I am Liverpool born and "bread" I now class myself as a Donny Lad.
My biggest disappointment was our exit from the FA Cup at the hands of Mansfield Town, but hopefully this can be put right by winning promotion for the supporters who l'd like to think I've got close to during my time at the Club.
LOTS OF LOVE AND SEXY KISSES.
GARY BRABIN”
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 18/07/2025
This is a good one. It’ll make you look up the price of some jackets. I can’t afford the jackets.
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 01/07/2025
Pub?
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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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...
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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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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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...
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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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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Advert by The Brewers' Society from 1954
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 30/05/2025
Best bit of football writing I’ve read in a while ⚽
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 16/04/2025
On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies. Solidarity 💜 goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...
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Support resources for our trans friends and allies | Good Law Project
At a time when anti-trans discrimination is rife and hate crime has reached record levels, it’s important to know what support is out there for trans, non-binary or gender-questioning individuals and ...
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 15/04/2025
Seashell Flowers, Max Ernst (1929)
Seashell Flowers, Max Ernst
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Our greatest ever issue has landed. The Fence #23 comes with spanking new features from Emma Magnus, Róisín Lanigan, Peter Carlyon, Georgia Brown, Jimmy McIntosh, Ciaran Thrapar, Katie Lewis and myself. Fiction from Leo Robson and fabulous cover and illustrations from the wondrous Ed Steed! BUY IT!
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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Issue 23 Is Here 🦈 With work from @emmafmagnus.bsky.social, @drblacklock.bsky.social, @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social, @seamas.bsky.social, @roisinlanigan.bsky.social, @louisstaples.bsky.social, @dwhitehouse.bsky.social, @williamasclarke.bsky.social & more www.the-fence.com/shop/
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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
'I have seen landmine injuries from years ago. I have seen men with 100 cigarette burns on their body; women who were separated from their husbands crossing Libya and can now barely speak of it.' An anonymous dispatch from a clinical lead in an asylum hotel. www.the-fence.com/hotel-britan...
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Hotel Britannica
What life is like when you’ve crossed the Channel.
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 18/03/2025
Very excited to have illustrations in this!
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 18/03/2025
Evil bollocks as ever from Labour’s most committed pro-misery activist: a) Are those ‘better paid jobs’... vacant? b) Aren’t mental health problems overdiagnosed (Wes)? c) If mental health support is so essential, why slash PIP for mental health support? d) “If you can work” What if you can’t?
Kendall replied:

I’ve spent years chairing Feeding Leicester, the programme to end hunger in my city and I know that I can look my constituents in the eye and say to them, I know that getting more people into better paid jobs is the key to their future success, I know dealing with their mental health problems which we know are so prevalent is so essential.

We, the Labour party, believe that if you can work, we will give you the help to get back on your feet, because that is the long-term route to tackling poverty, tackling inequality which is what this Labour party is all about.
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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
There was an especially egregious labour guy in the papers yesterday saying to keep out the far right they need to crack down on migrants, foreign aid and welfare claimants and.. I'm unclear from this why he feels keeping out the far right is necessary
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 01/03/2025
Anyone got any newish literary fiction I should read
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
a regular bugbear of mine - when something goes over budget on costs by 50% it's the end of the world, but you can underestimate the benefits massively and people treat it like a success story. Crossrail was arguably built 20 years too late because of these errors
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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Our sale is about to run out - but we only have a handful of bundles left. If you sign up on our print and digital plan, you'll get a tote bag, Issue 18, Issue 19, Issue 21 and Issue 22 for free. But move quickly, as we only have five of these deals left... www.the-fence.com/shop/
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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
when someone tells you they are an autodidact, a fun game is saying "actually I don't think it's pronounced like that"
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 25/02/2025
Illustrations I’ve done recently for @thefence.bsky.social: 1. A Myra in makeup for Bethany Elliott’s piece on the people who aren’t serial killers – they just play them on TV: www.the-fence.com/psychopaths-...
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Psychopaths’ Comic-Con
Stay sexy, murderinos
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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 22/02/2025
Turned on the United game at 2-0 for a lovely Saturday afternoon hatewatch and now they’ve ruined it
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