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The Suicide Forest

The Suicide Forest

Two fathers set out for a walk in the woods with their children in search of adventure and peace of mind, but instead kept stumbling upon creepy memorials.

28 May 2026

Two Weeks Until the Coming of the Binmen

A chronicle of British survival, where an overflowing blue bin is the main character, and bin day is a true holiday of hope and salvation

14 May 2026

A Poop Under the Crown

Thirty years ago, comic books promised a world without trash and mess, but London's sidewalks had a completely different lesson in store.

14 April 2026
The Romance of the Forest

The Romance of the Forest

The Gothic novel The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe is written in archaic 18th-century English, when forms of address equivalent to 'thou' and 'you' still existed separately

17 January 2026
Disneyland for Crime

Disneyland for Crime

Many Turkish barbershops in Britain are a facade for money laundering from drug trafficking, human trafficking and other criminal activity

24 November 2025
It's always DNS.. isn't it?

It's always DNS.. isn't it?

Over the past month, all major cloud services have gone down - AWS, Azure, Cloudflare... what does AI have to do with it?

19 November 2025

Wrong door number

Living in a house with a number that delivery reads as "somewhere around here" and constantly deliver other's orders to you.

16 September 2025
The Giant House Spider

The Giant House Spider

Life in a private house has its charms. One of them is spiders. Every summer and well into late autumn, the windows get so densely covered in webs that it feels like living in the Addams Family mansion.

02 September 2025
Map of Religious Diversity in London 2024

Map of Religious Diversity in London 2024

South London is predominantly Christian–atheist, while the north is more religiously diverse with distinct Muslim and Hindu communities.

11 July 2025
Pyjama Week

Pyjama Week

Starting this year, my seven-year-old son goes to the pool every Thursday for swimming lessons – one day he has to jump into the water in his pyjamas.

10 July 2025