“The UK’s only magazine”, The Fence is a brilliantly funny, insightful, and gossipy publication that trades on a special sort of access to stories that you won’t find elsewhere. This is the summer issue, packed full of great reads and ideal for folding up and taking away on your travels.

 
In this issue:

• An investigation into the Afghan aid money that’s fuelling the spread of American candy stores across the UK
• Glory in “London noir” with one-time nightclub impresario Howard Spooner
• Restaurateur James Ramsden looks back on his career with a “self-lacerating walkabout in the West End”
• Entrepreneur Tom Broughton delivers a disarmingly honest appraisal of his experiences running spectacles company Cubitts
• And a guide to the Second English Civil War