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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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Xhxxax @txomxs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 10/08/2026

All politicians should be given your “anatomy of a chortle” blog to read (which of course they’ll treat like the BBC guidance on responsible economic reporting)

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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 · 10/08/2026

Best sandwich in the UK. Been there twice and ordered a second both times

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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 · 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 · 18/05/2026

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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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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 01/05/2026

Revised to include the scene where he does it with a badger

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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 · 16/04/2026

This is their version of the aging French rockstar who will write you or your loved one a song who’s always in the LRB classifieds

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 09/04/2026

I was going to suggest Brendan at the Bernabéu but I guess you just couldn’t call that a “big european tie”

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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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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 05/03/2026

Same number of countries as the World Series in baseball

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 02/03/2026

In a similar vein I was recently thinking about how I learnt the word “expeditiously” from the Snoop Dogg remix of Riders on the Storm that was on the Need For Speed: Underground soundtrack

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 02/03/2026

Who’s Cadbury’s Creme fertilised them?

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 05/02/2026

Then – my apologies to Steven Gerrard, but he’s going to have to move back to RWB from false nine, with Becks going to CM and Lampard joining the front three

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 05/02/2026

I want a 3-4-3 with Cole and Beckham as wing backs

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 05/02/2026

Yeah it’s great and has a nice interior-design-as-moral-barometer thing going on

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 03/02/2026

A bit like Schrödinger’s Key Labour Voter – not necessarily a bigot, but to be indulged in all their bigotries just in case

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 03/02/2026

It’s good for him to be defenestrated but better if his ankle is tied to the system around him

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 21/01/2026

The men who work in the warehouse are ‘just as surprised as anyone else’ – supposing they are ever traced.

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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 · 25/12/2025

Doug Yule, however, is non-canon

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 10/12/2025

Need an Esprit Turbo in Bond bronze

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 01/12/2025

But, mi portuñol doesn’t stretch as far as knowing chisme, which makes more sense if you were in Montevideo

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 01/12/2025

I thought it was going to be “fofoca, diz-me”, as in “gossip, talk to me”

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 25/11/2025

I liked “lord on the board”

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 19/11/2025

I quite enjoy the implied lateral movement

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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 · 31/10/2025

...and so compounded by being self-inflicted

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 31/10/2025

One night at a festival this summer I saw a tennis ball on the ground. Drunk, decided to boot it as far as I could – turned out it was covering the protruding end of a pole anchor in the ground. Still got a bruised section of my big toenail three months down the line

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 31/10/2025

I remember being taken aback that their quant guy was doing better qual than anyone else in the room

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 27/10/2025

I’d always wondered how employers turned it around so slowly until I was on the two-person shortlisting panel for a job with 80 applicants

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 07/10/2025

Lad at my school made two grave mistakes. The first: he bookmarked a porn site on his family computer but renamed the bookmark to “Capital FM”, which his mum clicked on. The second, fatal: he told people at school, which led to “Capital FM” being his nickname and me recounting this 15 years later

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 26/09/2025

I’ve just gone back and done some recent ones and not got above 8 – going along fine and then there’s some regional American thing that’s basically ungettable

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 26/09/2025

When I watched it last year the word that kept coming to mind was “sumptuous” – such a rich mix of cinematography, set design and costume

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 26/09/2025

Ooh that’s a good game #460 - 9/10 🎉 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐟

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