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‘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 infrastucture projects planned for the UK. This typically disaparate mix is held together by the magazine’s impressive sense of editorial indentity. On episode 39 of the magCulture Podcast:Editor Charles Baker discusses his magazineListen here the-fence.com
