The Fence #24
200 x 270 mm, 56 pages
London, UK
Quarterly
First published in 2019
Editor: Charlie Baker
Design: Studio Mathias Clottu
‘The UK’s only magazine’
The Fence has developed a devoted readership for its scurrilous and very English mix of humour, investigation and politics. Smartly presented in black and red with copious illustration, it’s a unique publication that describes itself as ‘The UK’s only magazine’. Patently untrue of course—perhaps a better description comes from Graydon Carter: ‘The illegitimate offspring of Private Eye and Evelyn Waugh.’ It’s certainly a very English magazine, if not a London one.
This issue features a Welsh prepper shop; reveals the man who ‘invented’ Shoreditch; visits London’s Tina Triangle; publishes a short story by Eva Wiseman; and mocks the maddest infrastructure projects planned for the UK. This typically disparate mix is held together by the magazine’s impressive sense of editorial identity.
A very rare, sold out issue.
On episode 39 of the magCulture Podcast:
Editor Charles Baker discusses his magazine
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