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A field guide to the church halls, railway arches and community centres where UK zine culture is still photocopied, stapled and swapped in person. Because the best algorithm in 2026 is a table with a wobbly leg and a pile of paper.
In church halls and community centres up and down the country, people are taking broken kettles apart with a screwdriver and a flask of tea. The fixes are often ugly. They're also the most honest design practice in Britain right now.
An opinionated, faintly obsessive guide to sourcing pictures and frames from charity shops, car boot sales and house clearances — and assembling something that looks collected rather than coordinated.
Forget the blockbuster show — the museum shop tells you what an institution really values. A curator's tour of eight independent-minded shops from Glasgow to Cornwall, with notes on what to buy, what to leave on the shelf, and how to read a shop in ninety seconds.
Britain's cultural sector has mistaken reverence for seriousness, and it is making us boring. A plea for cheek, mischief and the kind of curation that knows when to wink, featuring the artists and spaces getting the balance right.