Giles Wilson
@gillis49.bsky.social
Editor at longform/immersive specialist harpoon.productions. Creator of BBC News Magazine in days of yore. Chair @wansteadfringe.bsky.social “One of the most impressive beards I've ever seen” - forensic psychologist Sohom Das
The best party of the 2025 @wansteadfringe.bsky.social book festival was chatting with the great @alanconnor.bsky.social about crosswords, quizzing, Monty Python, Bach, suits, and 100 other things.
September 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The best party of the 2025 @wansteadfringe.bsky.social book festival was chatting with the great @alanconnor.bsky.social about crosswords, quizzing, Monty Python, Bach, suits, and 100 other things.
The finale of the @wansteadfringe.bsky.social book festival — an uncommonly pleasant evening talking Bazball with @nickhoultcricket.bsky.social and @boothcricket.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The finale of the @wansteadfringe.bsky.social book festival — an uncommonly pleasant evening talking Bazball with @nickhoultcricket.bsky.social and @boothcricket.bsky.social
Excellent to spend the evening with my old friend @rorycj.bsky.social for @wansteadfringe.bsky.social chatting about #sophiefromromania, Parkinson’s, and that other place
September 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Excellent to spend the evening with my old friend @rorycj.bsky.social for @wansteadfringe.bsky.social chatting about #sophiefromromania, Parkinson’s, and that other place
Read the room, Brewdog
July 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Read the room, Brewdog
@dauntbooks.bsky.social Got to love a bookshop that files this under Italy :
June 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
@dauntbooks.bsky.social Got to love a bookshop that files this under Italy :
What a weekend for old Baxters. Stanley, still with us at 99. And Biddy, 92 tomorrow.
May 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
What a weekend for old Baxters. Stanley, still with us at 99. And Biddy, 92 tomorrow.
Fantastically curt advice from Alan Titchmarsh in today’s @thetimes.com
May 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Fantastically curt advice from Alan Titchmarsh in today’s @thetimes.com
Cool album art from cousin John’s new release. It’s the sort of thing you could have taken out of your parents’ record cabinet in the mid-70s.
May 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Cool album art from cousin John’s new release. It’s the sort of thing you could have taken out of your parents’ record cabinet in the mid-70s.
Doin the Pigeon started the foot rot.
March 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Doin the Pigeon started the foot rot.
Oi Meta, NO! I don’t want your stupid AI mush in my Whatsapp. That’s a place for messaging my friends, not you lot.
March 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Oi Meta, NO! I don’t want your stupid AI mush in my Whatsapp. That’s a place for messaging my friends, not you lot.
Way to spend a Sunday evening
March 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Way to spend a Sunday evening
Best possible construction on Trump’s motives from @thetimes.com — is there any evidence for it, I wonder?
March 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Best possible construction on Trump’s motives from @thetimes.com — is there any evidence for it, I wonder?
@jonathancoe.bsky.social EastEnders is responsible for “See It, Say It, Sorted” according to the Eye.
February 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
@jonathancoe.bsky.social EastEnders is responsible for “See It, Say It, Sorted” according to the Eye.
With the Tube line story isn’t it more about establishing attribution than avoiding defamation? That’s certainly the case for lots of BBC headlines … and why this joke from this week’s Private Eye is well observed
January 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
With the Tube line story isn’t it more about establishing attribution than avoiding defamation? That’s certainly the case for lots of BBC headlines … and why this joke from this week’s Private Eye is well observed
12 months before this comes true?
December 29, 2024 at 4:52 PM
12 months before this comes true?
I’ve always pronounced it Vince Jerraldi, but have heard more people recently pronounce it Garaldi. Today on Sound of Cinema @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social said Gwaraldi. Since Christmas time is here, does anyone know??
December 21, 2024 at 9:27 PM
I’ve always pronounced it Vince Jerraldi, but have heard more people recently pronounce it Garaldi. Today on Sound of Cinema @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social said Gwaraldi. Since Christmas time is here, does anyone know??
Still the lushest Xmas treat ❤️
December 20, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Still the lushest Xmas treat ❤️
Thank you, J Sheekey, for your newsletter inviting me to book a table for New Year's Eve. But come now, there *must* be a better picture you could have used which showed a couple, very much in love, sitting in your restaurant and sharing a special moment...
December 17, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Thank you, J Sheekey, for your newsletter inviting me to book a table for New Year's Eve. But come now, there *must* be a better picture you could have used which showed a couple, very much in love, sitting in your restaurant and sharing a special moment...
I’ve been waiting for this. @jonathancoe.bsky.social
November 10, 2024 at 11:05 PM
I’ve been waiting for this. @jonathancoe.bsky.social
Does this bit of the Sunday Times Relative Values column deserve a bit more???
Art Garfunkel on having dinner with Paul Simon recently: “I cried when he told me how much I had hurt him…”
www.thetimes.com/article/8431...
Art Garfunkel on having dinner with Paul Simon recently: “I cried when he told me how much I had hurt him…”
www.thetimes.com/article/8431...
November 10, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Does this bit of the Sunday Times Relative Values column deserve a bit more???
Art Garfunkel on having dinner with Paul Simon recently: “I cried when he told me how much I had hurt him…”
www.thetimes.com/article/8431...
Art Garfunkel on having dinner with Paul Simon recently: “I cried when he told me how much I had hurt him…”
www.thetimes.com/article/8431...