Kate Spicer

London

Journalist and Broadcaster at Freelance

Writer at Sort Yourself Out!

Writer, "Not as successful as Giles Coren," according to my Mum. Long, hard and dirty on Substack. Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

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10 things I love about country life. And ten things that do my head in.

1 week ago | katespicer.substack.com | Kate Spicer

For a few weeks I’d considered writing ten good and ten bad things about the country here. I didn’t. Every time I started to type I was struck by what a miserable cow I was. People ask me, Are you enjoying Bruton? Do you like the country? And I always answer with “meh” noises because I don’t know how I feel. It just, is. It’s a change. Is it better. Or worse. I don’t know. It’s different. I can have a go at writing that list now. In recent days a shift in my mood has struck me.
The Emotional Apocalypse of Shame (via bad dogs, good rosé, and the insults you never forget)

1 month ago | katespicer.substack.com | Kate Spicer

One rolled in shit - wearily I bent to do the cautious appraising sniff. It was dried fox or badger probably, both are vile and have a musk that clings on to fur no matter how much soap is applied. There was much to be thankful for. Nothing is as bad as human. I breathed out and was just feeling the beginnings of calm when I realised the other had disappeared for too long and the tracker didn’t work and the panic in my voice rose. The concern was not that she’d leg it for miles. Or go for livestock.
Kate Spicer: I needed a new home, a new life

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Kate Spicer
"Yeah, I love a bit of chaos, me."

1 month ago | katespicer.substack.com | Kate Spicer

Aside from a flying visit, I hadn’t been to London for exactly a month until I drove up last Thursday. I walked into Tom Conran’s The Cow, a pub I’ve been going to since last millennium and my twenties. MY TWENTIES! And saw it with fresh loved-up eyes. Oxytocin flooded out of me for a pub, not a puppy or a baby but a pub with red lino, great music, good beer, sparkling oysters, vibes coming out of every crack and crease of it and murals by Paul Slater.
A shit poem about living in a nice town in the c'untry

1 month ago | katespicer.substack.com | Kate Spicer

My car got locked inat Hauser + Wirththe gallery where something notable and nice for your wallscosts the earthit sits at the top of a road near my house,my rented council palace,in BrutonAccidental larks with poorly composed pictures (2025) screen grab, liquid crystals and back light. cont…
Bukowski, and Somerset is full of potholes

1 month ago | katespicer.substack.com | Kate Spicer

Interviewer: What do you hold responsible for your success? Bukowski: A brutal childhood, alcohol, half a dozen rotten jobs, a dozen rotten women, plus an overpowering fear of everything, plus a strange arrival of luck and bravery in sub-zero situations. The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and WritingCharles Bukowski is an actually genius at what is called auto-fiction, confessional literature with narrative thread.
I was a sceptic but a psychic changed my life - what she told me will convince you too, says KATE SPICER

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Kate Spicer

When I first meet the famous psychic Estelle Bingham I’m in a terrible state. Ten minutes before our scheduled Zoom chat, I receive a text telling me I am effectively homeless thanks to ongoing issues over who is going to live in the flat my ex-boyfriend and I once shared. The thought of finding, furnishing and funding a home, while working to earn a crust and managing my two high-maintenance dogs, has me panicked and nauseous with stress.
RURAL MY ARSE

2 months ago | katespicer.substack.com | Kate Spicer

*Please forgive me if you are currently dealing with something worse than having to leave a nice neighbourhood in London to move to a nice neighbourhood in the West Country lite*. In what were my most self-pitying, and yet bold, financially sensible and curious moments, I searched RightMove in Wigan, then Grimsby, even Scunthorpe. It made me feel like I was better off: big house in a nice part of Grimsby for 800 quid. Could work?
I will love my oldest friends until the day I die but now I dread seeing them - and here's the startling reason why: KATE SPICER

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Kate Spicer

I have two old and precious friends I’ve known since my late teens. We met as our adult lives lay just ahead on the horizon, and they have been a constant throughout my life. Despite the fact that our lives are very different now. Bel* is a housewife and mother of two adult kids who left London in the year 2000. Caz* is a financially independent artist and academic, a divorcee now, and single mum who always seems to be living in a new exotic city. Me? Never married, no kids, a writer.
The world's biggest beauty breakthroughs: From umbilical cord face masks and earlobe fillers to 'MesoBotox' for over-sized pores, KATE SPICER reveals these revolutionary anti-ageing treatments | Daily Mail Online

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Kate Spicer

I'm playing around with a computer program, usually operated by a smartly-dressed dermatologist with razor-sharp cheekbones. On a big screen, I can adjust the controls to show how my face would look, enhanced by skin softeners, fillers, or Botox. I turn up all the settings to the max. At the end the image looks nothing like me but bears a striking resemblance to Madonna.

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