You are *not* going to guess the explanation for this one.

It’s taken 50 years but as of yesterday I am a tea drinker

Distressed to learn that my beloved Wimpy, bastion of British burgers and innuendo sausage, is in fact American.

Oxford Literary Festival tomorrow, 2pm if you want to meet me/hear me talk about medical malpractice with Deborah Douglas/buy our book/admire my vintage Italian men’s blazer

SNL UK is delightful. Benjamin Zephaniah and Cilla Black, I am catered to. Anyone not happy for a whole load of young comedians getting a big platform and kickstarting a new generation is miserable and can piss off.

Glorious piece about the best sausage-makers in the country (genuinely, there are no finer sausages) by way of a bit of Roman sausage history www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-lashford...

If you are at Oxford Literary Festival this weekend, come see me at 2pm oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...

Google’s AI overview is not only wrong but actively engaged in Bob Carolgees erasure

I have a piece on Deb Douglas and Ian Paterson in the current issue of Grazia if that’s anyone’s cup of interest

Search your camera roll for the word “Hell”

I’m not saying my inner old man is leaking but yesterday I went to a bus museum and today I received this beauty

Ahead of my fiftieth birthday (which is today) I told my sister I am easy to please because I reliably love three things: Asterix comics Garfield Mr Blobby Anyway I deserve this abomination of a card

I have no idea why Adrian Mole struck home. No idea at all. (letter from my mother to me at university during the 1987 general election)

Don’t hold me back, I’m going in

I've just reviewed my 52nd Sticky Toffee Pudding. But what did it get out of 10?

Having to put a woman of merit on a banknote broke the Bank of England

Ahead of the Lovejoy reboot I am going to read the first Lovejoy novel which I am assured is Quite Bad and therefore I will enjoy

ONE LIKE FOR CAKE JOKE

A little good news.

Oh man. And also that ‘subtext is for cowards’ meme.

I travel alone a huge amount. I never stay in Travelodges because they are always dodgy as hell, but whatever hotel I’m in I lock the door at night. I shouldn’t have to. I was followed back to my room a couple of weeks ago, have been propositioned in lifts, etc. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Wah there are no available requests, I want to answer one

Updated my books page www.tracyking.info/about

For services to journalism I went to a midnight screening of the new Peaky Blinders film last night

I am tired and just said “Wil Wheaton as Wesley Snipes”. That’s not right, but I would watch it.

The contented sleep of two old ladies who are now on vet-prescribed food that costs £100 a month

Yes

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

this photo leaves little to the imagination

Science Museum is doing screenings of the Star Trek movies as part of its 60th anniversary celebration. I’ve booked Wrath of Khan director’s cut. You should too. www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/s...

Respect to this reply

Watching a Lucy Worsley history video about the Jacobites, she just said tartan was banned and I shouted “no it wasn’t”. Hope she heard.

The noise a rolled die makes when it’s a six is different to when it’s another number I will not be taking questions

I didn’t get this hat even though it has my name on it so legally I could have had it for free

I see the mafia has branched out into Korean beauty

Face pot from Roman Colchester (Camulodunum) - now part of the collections at Colchester Castle. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Colchester

It’s the Gell-Mann effect for gen AI

With no context other than what I see here, I am nearly crying at "Don't die for garms"

Naga was fantastic, have a listen (starts about 30 mins in) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I’m on Naga Munchetty’s show on 5Live at 11:30ish talking about The Cost of Trust. Do tune in.

This post is the single best advert for the fact that proper local journalism matters. If Jim’s team hadn’t put the pieces together quickly, this wouldn’t have been stopped.

Oh yes nice idea Muriel Spark Ruth Rendell Diana Wynne Jones Shirley Jackson Virginia Woolf

I love it when a character in a show is an actor I don’t know from anything else. It means I am fully immersed in them as the character, nothing to break the illusion. Eg Gus Fring, Grandma Soprano.

Cone of shame for pedo is half Brasseye, half actually a good idea

For a second, I thought that he was actually there and wearing a cone of shame.

Ultravox appreciation hour

2026 basically