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· Oct 9
Issue 26 is here 📸
With a cover from @daveyjones.bsky.social and work from Tamlin Magee, @garyiship.bsky.social, Ella Benson Easton, @williamasclarke.bsky.social, Zara Meerza, Antonia Bentel, @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social & more
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With a cover from @daveyjones.bsky.social and work from Tamlin Magee, @garyiship.bsky.social, Ella Benson Easton, @williamasclarke.bsky.social, Zara Meerza, Antonia Bentel, @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social & more
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Stand by for a dose of Mitford Mania, as Rory Macneish meets Ben Treuhaft, the son of Decca, a piano tuner living between Edinburgh and the West Midlands. But does he share his mother's politics?
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Some more Mitford mania
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December 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Stand by for a dose of Mitford Mania, as Rory Macneish meets Ben Treuhaft, the son of Decca, a piano tuner living between Edinburgh and the West Midlands. But does he share his mother's politics?
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"The Guardian called him a ‘mystic’, and Intel execs commissioned a caricature of him as a many-armed deity, each hand clutching fags and pints."
An extraordinary profile by Tamlin Magee of his father, Michael, the technology journalist who became a leading figure in British occultism.
An extraordinary profile by Tamlin Magee of his father, Michael, the technology journalist who became a leading figure in British occultism.
In one of the lead features from Issue 26, Tamlin Magee remembers his father, Michael Magee, the man who brought Tantra to the UK.
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Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, His Name Chaos
The Arcane Magical Order of the Knights of Shambhala
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December 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"The Guardian called him a ‘mystic’, and Intel execs commissioned a caricature of him as a many-armed deity, each hand clutching fags and pints."
An extraordinary profile by Tamlin Magee of his father, Michael, the technology journalist who became a leading figure in British occultism.
An extraordinary profile by Tamlin Magee of his father, Michael, the technology journalist who became a leading figure in British occultism.
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This is a fantastic piece. The Register helped make me the computer person I am today.
In one of the lead features from Issue 26, Tamlin Magee remembers his father, Michael Magee, the man who brought Tantra to the UK.
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Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, His Name Chaos
The Arcane Magical Order of the Knights of Shambhala
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December 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This is a fantastic piece. The Register helped make me the computer person I am today.
In one of the lead features from Issue 26, Tamlin Magee remembers his father, Michael Magee, the man who brought Tantra to the UK.
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Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, His Name Chaos
The Arcane Magical Order of the Knights of Shambhala
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December 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
In one of the lead features from Issue 26, Tamlin Magee remembers his father, Michael Magee, the man who brought Tantra to the UK.
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As some of you may be aware I am a huge fan of THE FENCE magazine - think it’s one of the best things in UK right now..
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In one of the lead features from Issue 26, Ella Benson Easton interviews Robin Lane Fox, the @financialtimes.com's longest standing columnist, and an avowed opponent of garden gnomes.
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Robin Lane Fox’s reputation precedes him. He’s a storied academic and the world’s longest-standing gardening columnist with 55 years and counting at the Financial Times. Whispers of the man’s…
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December 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
In one of the lead features from Issue 26, Ella Benson Easton interviews Robin Lane Fox, the @financialtimes.com's longest standing columnist, and an avowed opponent of garden gnomes.
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In every way, there's nobody doing it quite like Robin Lane Fox.
Ella Benson Easton spent some time with the quixotic classicist, historian and @ftweekend.com gardening columnist in one of the standout pieces of Issue 25.
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Ella Benson Easton spent some time with the quixotic classicist, historian and @ftweekend.com gardening columnist in one of the standout pieces of Issue 25.
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No More Worlds to Conquer
Robin Lane Fox’s reputation precedes him. He’s a storied academic and the world’s longest-standing gardening columnist with 55 years and counting at the Financial Times. Whispers of the man’s…
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December 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
In every way, there's nobody doing it quite like Robin Lane Fox.
Ella Benson Easton spent some time with the quixotic classicist, historian and @ftweekend.com gardening columnist in one of the standout pieces of Issue 25.
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Ella Benson Easton spent some time with the quixotic classicist, historian and @ftweekend.com gardening columnist in one of the standout pieces of Issue 25.
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Issue 25 found floating in the Dead Sea, courtesy of Laila and Oisin
December 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Issue 25 found floating in the Dead Sea, courtesy of Laila and Oisin
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also, sharing a bonus tidbit here from the cutting room floor which I feel really captures Andy’s singular essence.
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
also, sharing a bonus tidbit here from the cutting room floor which I feel really captures Andy’s singular essence.
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in my latest for @thefence.bsky.social, I hightailed it to Cambridgeshire to pay a visit to @andyleexxx.bsky.social and have look around his Gay For Pay University. It was a surreal experience, throughout which my eyes were firmly open.
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Summa Cum Laude
‘It’s not sex,’ Andy Lee declares of what he does to earn a living. He’s showing me a pair of worker boots that he sometimes demands a submissive scene partner to sniff, assuring me they’re not just…
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November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
in my latest for @thefence.bsky.social, I hightailed it to Cambridgeshire to pay a visit to @andyleexxx.bsky.social and have look around his Gay For Pay University. It was a surreal experience, throughout which my eyes were firmly open.
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But where on the (quite short) Herts/Cambs border? Cambs side, so there's a fairly limited number of places it can be
For the latest issue of the Fence, we sent @garyiship.bsky.social to the border of Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, to check in on Porn Star University, the UK's premier academy for Gay-For-Pay adult performers.
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Summa Cum Laude
‘It’s not sex,’ Andy Lee declares of what he does to earn a living. He’s showing me a pair of worker boots that he sometimes demands a submissive scene partner to sniff, assuring me they’re not just…
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November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
But where on the (quite short) Herts/Cambs border? Cambs side, so there's a fairly limited number of places it can be
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"In the background, I can hear Hard Tom and Jak’s scene coming to a momentous climax."
For the latest issue of the Fence, we sent @garyiship.bsky.social to the border of Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, to check in on Porn Star University, the UK's premier academy for Gay-For-Pay adult performers.
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Summa Cum Laude
‘It’s not sex,’ Andy Lee declares of what he does to earn a living. He’s showing me a pair of worker boots that he sometimes demands a submissive scene partner to sniff, assuring me they’re not just…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"In the background, I can hear Hard Tom and Jak’s scene coming to a momentous climax."
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Hard ( no pun intendted ) hitting journalism
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For the latest issue of the Fence, we sent @garyiship.bsky.social to the border of Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, to check in on Porn Star University, the UK's premier academy for Gay-For-Pay adult performers.
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Summa Cum Laude
‘It’s not sex,’ Andy Lee declares of what he does to earn a living. He’s showing me a pair of worker boots that he sometimes demands a submissive scene partner to sniff, assuring me they’re not just…
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November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Hard ( no pun intendted ) hitting journalism
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a) this is very fun, b) I have genuinely not even considered before the prospect of "straight-for-pay" porn
For the latest issue of the Fence, we sent @garyiship.bsky.social to the border of Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, to check in on Porn Star University, the UK's premier academy for Gay-For-Pay adult performers.
www.the-fence.com/summa-cum-la...
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Summa Cum Laude
‘It’s not sex,’ Andy Lee declares of what he does to earn a living. He’s showing me a pair of worker boots that he sometimes demands a submissive scene partner to sniff, assuring me they’re not just…
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November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
a) this is very fun, b) I have genuinely not even considered before the prospect of "straight-for-pay" porn
Come on this is magic stuff
November 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Come on this is magic stuff
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This is the piece I posted about earlier. I think the best short summary I can come up with is… eye-opening
For the latest issue of the Fence, we sent @garyiship.bsky.social to the border of Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, to check in on Porn Star University, the UK's premier academy for Gay-For-Pay adult performers.
www.the-fence.com/summa-cum-la...
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Summa Cum Laude
‘It’s not sex,’ Andy Lee declares of what he does to earn a living. He’s showing me a pair of worker boots that he sometimes demands a submissive scene partner to sniff, assuring me they’re not just…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This is the piece I posted about earlier. I think the best short summary I can come up with is… eye-opening