@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
Guardian doing itself and us justice.
06.12.2025 19:56 — 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Now that’s more like it. Thank you Gail.
05.12.2025 10:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Photo that the Point Clear LP sleeve was based on.
My Spotify wrapped summary is that my band took all our music off Spotify because the company’s CEO invests the billions which he doesn’t pay artists on AI drone weapons tech.
Ditch Spotify. Pay artists. Redistribute wealth. Stop war. Happy Christmas!
Gee, all the Christmas cards on sale are so twee. Having a hard job finding any I would put my name to.
05.12.2025 09:53 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1And while I’m on the subject, people have birthdays. Things have anniversaries.
04.12.2025 18:11 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0@jameshoggwriter.bsky.social We could do with some James Hogg here…
04.12.2025 08:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0An old era ends is what I think you meant.
03.12.2025 18:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Christmas lights all sorted and wound round bits of cardboard, ready for reusing
Oh yay for me
01.12.2025 20:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Picture of Observer front page with new masthead design
This new/old masthead warms my heart @theobserveruk.bsky.social
30.11.2025 18:48 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you for doing this, very useful indeed for those of us who are now news avoiders.
24.11.2025 23:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Just watched first Netflix Sesame Street — seems 100% authentic and true to its values and also reinvented once again. Really those guys are the finest. Now they just need to get off Xitter and come to this new place.
15.11.2025 20:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nice vibraphone action… music.apple.com/gb/album/the...
13.11.2025 17:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good line from this Obs leader: "Davie and Turness were Faithfuls." observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...
10.11.2025 14:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
At least your book has a story to tell.
09.11.2025 09:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The alternative Ode to Joy lyrics @billybragg.bsky.social mentioned on Jools’ @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social programme www.reddit.com/r/europe/com...
24.05.2025 12:37 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Calls for some historical fiction.
05.11.2025 18:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The comments on that post!
05.11.2025 14:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0He’s incredibly destructive for someone who calls themselves a builder
02.11.2025 18:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hey BBC News pals. You know Traitors isn’t actually the news, right?
17.10.2025 05:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Haribo declined to comment.“
11.10.2025 14:43 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That definitely should not have been the last paragraph.
11.10.2025 12:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Me too. 40 years in.
05.10.2025 16:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Excellent beard action!
28.09.2025 21:52 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Alan Connor and Giles Wilson at the Wanstead Book Festival
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.
28.09.2025 17:31 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0Taking the recommendation
28.09.2025 17:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lawrence Booth and Nick Hoult speaking to Giles Wilson
The finale of the @wansteadfringe.bsky.social book festival — an uncommonly pleasant evening talking Bazball with @nickhoultcricket.bsky.social and @boothcricket.bsky.social
26.09.2025 23:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Generally Radio 3 needs less news.
22.09.2025 19:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@billybragg.bsky.social Thanks for Saturday night Billy, was very moving —and a magical moment when BBC News flashed above your head. Best ever Great Leap Forwards. Regards from Wanstead.
22.09.2025 19:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
