Neil McCallum
@mccallumn.bsky.social
Translator/Analyst| Bordeaux to Beijing| #Eurasia | #Masculinities | (Feminist) #Security | Gymnast| Black Belt| @suttontrust ALB| 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇨🇿
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‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say?
‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say?
Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:02 AM
‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say?
Unexpected wine spotted out the corner of my eye.
February 5, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Unexpected wine spotted out the corner of my eye.
I love Manze's, and I love that there is always a queue.
The pie and mash crisis: can the original fast food be saved? www.theguardian.com/food/2026/fe...
The pie and mash crisis: can the original fast food be saved? www.theguardian.com/food/2026/fe...
The pie and mash crisis: can the original fast food be saved?
There used to be hundreds of pie and mash shops in London. Now there are barely more than 30. Can social media attention and a push for protected status ensure their survival?
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:45 PM
I love Manze's, and I love that there is always a queue.
The pie and mash crisis: can the original fast food be saved? www.theguardian.com/food/2026/fe...
The pie and mash crisis: can the original fast food be saved? www.theguardian.com/food/2026/fe...
Very confused that I am not up in the nosebleeds.
February 2, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Very confused that I am not up in the nosebleeds.
Publication event for Anton Chekhov. Earliest Stories: Stories, Novellas, Humoresques, 1880–1882: 1 at Pushkin House
Nice to see my name up in lights as a translator.
Nice to see my name up in lights as a translator.
January 29, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Publication event for Anton Chekhov. Earliest Stories: Stories, Novellas, Humoresques, 1880–1882: 1 at Pushkin House
Nice to see my name up in lights as a translator.
Nice to see my name up in lights as a translator.
Had to do some interpreting for spanish customers at the cider house, so at least i got some discount on my drink.
January 25, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Had to do some interpreting for spanish customers at the cider house, so at least i got some discount on my drink.
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Started watching Industry (a bit late I know) and I'm very impressed by how many different varieties of wanker the writers came up with.
January 22, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Started watching Industry (a bit late I know) and I'm very impressed by how many different varieties of wanker the writers came up with.
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"just gotta make it to New Year's" -> "just gotta make it to Lunar New Year" ->"just gotta make it to Navruz" -> "just gotta make it to Altargana" ->
January 23, 2026 at 12:10 AM
"just gotta make it to New Year's" -> "just gotta make it to Lunar New Year" ->"just gotta make it to Navruz" -> "just gotta make it to Altargana" ->
Discount diplomacy.
January 23, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Discount diplomacy.
The Susanna Roth Translators Award 2026 – Call for Entries is out now!
A competition open to young translators of czech up to the age of forty
translate an extract of Eli Beneš' Všechno bude super
DEADLINE
Closing date for translations: 31 March 2026
lnkd.in/edmcSpuw
A competition open to young translators of czech up to the age of forty
translate an extract of Eli Beneš' Všechno bude super
DEADLINE
Closing date for translations: 31 March 2026
lnkd.in/edmcSpuw
January 22, 2026 at 5:07 PM
The Susanna Roth Translators Award 2026 – Call for Entries is out now!
A competition open to young translators of czech up to the age of forty
translate an extract of Eli Beneš' Všechno bude super
DEADLINE
Closing date for translations: 31 March 2026
lnkd.in/edmcSpuw
A competition open to young translators of czech up to the age of forty
translate an extract of Eli Beneš' Všechno bude super
DEADLINE
Closing date for translations: 31 March 2026
lnkd.in/edmcSpuw
Report from the The Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI), the Association of Translation Companies (ATC) and the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL): Universities hold the key to reversing the UK's language crisis
www.iti.org.uk/resource/uni...
www.iti.org.uk/resource/uni...
Universities hold the key to reversing the UK's language crisis
New report from ITI, ATC and CIOL sets out the case for protecting language degrees in UK universities.
www.iti.org.uk
January 15, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Report from the The Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI), the Association of Translation Companies (ATC) and the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL): Universities hold the key to reversing the UK's language crisis
www.iti.org.uk/resource/uni...
www.iti.org.uk/resource/uni...
For all the Vietnamese 🇻🇳 > English translators, you best had sharpen your pencils.
Peirene press' Stevns translation prize is out now.
Peirene press' Stevns translation prize is out now.
January 14, 2026 at 10:54 PM
For all the Vietnamese 🇻🇳 > English translators, you best had sharpen your pencils.
Peirene press' Stevns translation prize is out now.
Peirene press' Stevns translation prize is out now.
'That this House takes note of measures, such as visa waivers, to improve the supply chain of qualified modern foreign language teachers and the sustainability of language learning in schools and universities.
HoL debate on Language Learnong last Thursday 8.1.26
HoL debate on Language Learnong last Thursday 8.1.26
January 13, 2026 at 3:22 PM
'That this House takes note of measures, such as visa waivers, to improve the supply chain of qualified modern foreign language teachers and the sustainability of language learning in schools and universities.
HoL debate on Language Learnong last Thursday 8.1.26
HoL debate on Language Learnong last Thursday 8.1.26
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Taking a few translation liberties here, maybe, but I like the sentiment…
January 10, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Taking a few translation liberties here, maybe, but I like the sentiment…
'Trinity Hall use a “targeted recruitment strategy” to individually approach about 50 independent schools to encourage applications in subjects including languages, music and classics'.
Hard enough to get bums on seats for languages anyway, let alone if you are discriminating against 93%.
Hard enough to get bums on seats for languages anyway, let alone if you are discriminating against 93%.
It's shocking that Trinity Hall are considering targeting student recruitment from "elite private schools."
The University of Cambridge is a world-class institution, but access is overwhelmingly unequal 🧵
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
The University of Cambridge is a world-class institution, but access is overwhelmingly unequal 🧵
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Cambridge college to target elite private schools for student recruitment
Exclusive: Trinity Hall’s new policy described as a ‘slap in the face’ for state-educated students
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:47 PM
'Trinity Hall use a “targeted recruitment strategy” to individually approach about 50 independent schools to encourage applications in subjects including languages, music and classics'.
Hard enough to get bums on seats for languages anyway, let alone if you are discriminating against 93%.
Hard enough to get bums on seats for languages anyway, let alone if you are discriminating against 93%.
"We are building a world that treats #translation as a problem to be solved. But translation was never just a technical challenge — it is an act of witnessing."
www.politico.eu/article/when...
www.politico.eu/article/when...
When the interpreter wept: What automation erases inside Europe’s institutions
We are building a world that treats translation as a problem to be solved. But translation was never just a technical challenge — it is an act of witnessing.
www.politico.eu
January 8, 2026 at 12:59 PM
"We are building a world that treats #translation as a problem to be solved. But translation was never just a technical challenge — it is an act of witnessing."
www.politico.eu/article/when...
www.politico.eu/article/when...
Using that central/eastern european degree to analyse (drink), apparently, baltic porters.
January 3, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Using that central/eastern european degree to analyse (drink), apparently, baltic porters.
'former communist nation'... classic.
January 3, 2026 at 2:22 PM
'former communist nation'... classic.
Anton Chekhov. Earliest Stories: Stories, Novellas, Humoresques, 1880-1882
My second literary translation, first from Russian.
Only took a decade to publish.
My second literary translation, first from Russian.
Only took a decade to publish.
December 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Anton Chekhov. Earliest Stories: Stories, Novellas, Humoresques, 1880-1882
My second literary translation, first from Russian.
Only took a decade to publish.
My second literary translation, first from Russian.
Only took a decade to publish.
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Quite the chart. www.ft.com/content/30a4...
December 20, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Quite the chart. www.ft.com/content/30a4...
Is it Spanish, is it Czech?
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December 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Is it Spanish, is it Czech?
🇪🇸 🇨🇿
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The classic british sport... annoying the French... now to binge Emily in Paris.
December 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The classic british sport... annoying the French... now to binge Emily in Paris.
Back from Bulgaira 🇧🇬 last night, new Peirene Press Bulgarian book this morning.
December 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Back from Bulgaira 🇧🇬 last night, new Peirene Press Bulgarian book this morning.
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Born this day in 1884, on Neskuchnoye estate in Ukraine, the marvelous painter Zinaida Serebriakova. After my time, but worth making an exception! Here by herself at the mirror in 1909.
December 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Born this day in 1884, on Neskuchnoye estate in Ukraine, the marvelous painter Zinaida Serebriakova. After my time, but worth making an exception! Here by herself at the mirror in 1909.