Eight weeks today until I submit the book manuscript to my Editor then go on an exotic five star holiday (outskirts of Cardiff, sister's boxroom). One chapter left to write, a bit of the finale/epilogue thingy, and acknowledgements. Can't believe I've nearly done it!

Reform UK say that its candidate pictured making an apparent Nazi salute has stepped down "citing issues with his mental health."

American heavyweight boxer Jake Kilrain pictured training with his children. These illustrations by William E. Harding for the Police Gazette were published in the 1888 magazine 'Jake Kilrain's Life and Battles' soon after his international championship match with England's Jem Smith. Cute! 🏐🥊

Absolutely delighted to discover this week that there are mums at my child's nursery called Honey Peaches and Angel. Never felt older, either: there's not a single other Sarah.

AEW/ROH has some very tall women. I live.

What if we reinvented LiveJournal but now for only $6 a month you can listen to two extra podcasts of bonus content.

Sharing my childhood living room again, for it brings joy 😂

🥊❤️ Hook, line and cinema: why boxing films are still a knockout @jaseokundaye.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

‘Nonfiction books are a crucial bulwark against the surging public culture of “alternative facts,” outright lies, and the brazen embrace of ignorance.‘ newrepublic.com/article/2076...

My dad Geoff, 46yrs a Luton News reporter, turns 74 today: one year older than both his parents (pictured here in specs). He credits his 'longevity' to not smoking 40 cigarettes a day, although I'd imagine also not working with toxic chemicals or getting shot through the neck in a war helped.

What did I ever do to deserve this 🤦🏻‍♀️

This is a real thing that actually happened oh my god 😭

Just been admiring my son's nursery's Religions of the World (there's a sign that says this) display in the hallway when I dropped him off. It consists of a wooden tortoise, a frog, a clog, and a Nefertiti head.

Bring back champion bird imitators! 🦜

For shame. This club, that I have supported for my entire life, my father, my grandmother, my son, the children of immigrants. For shame.

11yo went on a school trip to an agricultural museum today to learn about life as an evacuee in WWII, but unfortunately one of the horses they saw did an enormous fart and now that's the only thing any of them are going to remember

Charley Mitchell (1861 - 1918), famous Birmingham pugilist, manager, trainer, top English heavyweight, media commentator slash gobshite. Always had a good quote or rant in him. Bit of a racist though, sadly, didn't think Peter Jackson et al should be fighting white guys. From an 1888 magazine.

I need Mary to leave Hezekiah alone. She's a calamity and Hezekiah can do a million times better. He doesn't need bad mind in his life. #AThousandBlows

Heh 😀

Bafta Best Drama nomination for A Thousand Blows is it! I was Historical Consultant on a BAFTA NOMINATED SHOW! What a vibe 🥊

It was @oispooky.bsky.social's research that led to #AThousandBlows being made. Without her work, this show could never have been imagined. Sarah has a book coming out next year on Victorian boxers, and I'm so excited for it! Do follow her for fascinating insights into this Victorian underworld.

He stood in Parliament and likened this 'naughty habit' to eating doughnuts. Eating a doughnut - a little vice he enjoys - near me and my son's lungs doesn't make us get ASTHMA and CANCER and STROKE and SIDS and HEART DISEASE and DIE EARLY you stupid, ignorant, man???!???

Bafta Best Drama nomination for A Thousand Blows is it! I was Historical Consultant on a BAFTA NOMINATED SHOW! What a vibe 🥊

"Perhaps the writers thought they were inventing a character, not portraying one – if that is the case, why give him my father’s name?" I've had the same conversation with a descendent of the real Henry 'Sugar' Goodson over #AThousandBlows and agree: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Charley Mitchell (1861 - 1918), famous Birmingham pugilist, manager, trainer, top English heavyweight, media commentator slash gobshite. Always had a good quote or rant in him. Bit of a racist though, sadly, didn't think Peter Jackson et al should be fighting white guys. From an 1888 magazine.

The Wikipedia entry about the world's heaviest rabbit takes an unexpected turn about halfway through.

Had the upcoming Fury fight in my phone calendar but not my son's parents' evening which it turns out is in 45 minutes time 💪🏼

'MattGPT is as bad for the intellectual ecosystem as ChatGPT is for the environment.' 👏

Just kicked a Reform leaflet dropper out of my block of flats in Clacton for trespassing. Interesting that they're paying not English, not white lads to do the manual labour 🤦🏻‍♀️

Things I like to remember when feeling like I'm struggling to cope with my little life in my little flat with my one little child lol

How do YOU get in the zone for writing in the evening? Personally I like to spend four hours over two consecutive days destroying my back at a soft play centre, then get whipped round the head with a tea towel by a metre-high copy of my partner while he yells TRICERATOPS repeatedly for no reason.

Matt Goodwin’s previous book being published by Penguin and his latest coming out from ‘Northstar’ — which appears to be a cover for self-publishing — has a real Mark in Peep Show working with British London vibes.

Pet Sematary 🪦🐈

Wrote 10,000 words of my book this week. A full-on eighth of it. Deadline stress is my vibe! 😂 Watching Pierce Brosnan as Brendan Ingle now. I love Pierce Brosnan. I love a British boxing film. I love Pierce Brosnan in a British boxing film!!!

Just got page layouts back for my upcoming book, SLEUTH-HOUND: THE CASE OF THE REAL SHERLOCK HOLMES. Interestingly, my US publisher has added this cautionary note at the beginning re: AI. This has never appeared in my previous books. Good to see it, though one wonders how effective it will be.

£8.50 well spent 🤌🏻

📣 FOUR WEEKS TODAY!! Don’t forget to get your tickets to #HistFest2026 at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Book now histfest.org/histfest-2026/

Only smiling at the soft play mums wearing trainer-socks, the mutually agreed millennial symbol of oh god our spines are too old for this.

In Hemel Hempstead, there’s a street called Bohemia.

Snore. Can't we just be weird? Where my parents used to live in Leighton Buzzard there was a street called Garden Hedge. Not Garden Hedge Road, Avenue, whatever. Just Garden Hedge. Make cities weirder like that. Or, in fact, like Leighton Buzzard.

Explosions, explosions, explosions, hats, horses, yes, alright, a pretty good time! Explosions.

After 14 months getting heart palpitations and the urge for a strong drink every time Steven Knight opens his mouth about Hezekiah Moscow, I shouldn't be watching the Peaky Blinders film tonight. Am I watching the Peaky Blinders film tonight? I am, in fact, watching the Peaky Blinders film tonight.

A CHAMPION KILLED BY A RAT. In April 1892 The Sportsman reported on the February death of a New Zealand amateur boxer, Dick Sandal, who was chasing a rat when it turned and leapt at him, biting him on the cheek. In a comparatively short space of time, Dick breathed his last. 🐀🥊

My neighbour told me that the landlady at our local in Clacton tried to bar him last year because she couldn't be arsed with it all 👍🏼

At 7am my two-year-old looked out the window at the ocean on this, a rare a sunny day, and said "The shine! On the bubbles!" and gave me a full face kiss and a "love ooh mama". At 6pm he punched me so hard in the face while I was trying to take off his shoes that my nose is still numb hours later👌🏼

Fifteen minutes into the new ten pin bowling documentary series and there's old guys called Guppy Troup and Kermit Crowe, plus a white bloke with the job title Professional Bowler / Rapper. Oh, you GOT me.

I've MADE IT! I'm an AUTHOR! ...Got my first random AI spam scam book club email. AND it's from Dakota Johnson off that naughty film series?! Sad she couldn't get either my name or the name of my book right, though 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

Fame & fortune seem just around the corner.

I keep thinking about Nigel Farage's ugly magnolia office.

We live in Rip Off Britain. We have to lower people's bills and tax wealth fairly. This morning I'll be starting to lay out our vision of how to do this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...