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Giles Wilson

@gillis49.bsky.social
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Editor @harpoon.productions. Chair @wansteadfringe.bsky.social. Hinde Street. “One of the most impressive beards I've ever seen” - forensic psychologist Sohom Das

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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It was a really good conversation. Also - get good at metabolising rejection.
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wansteadium.bsky.social @wansteadium.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
John Davies found a box in an Estonian bookshop. It turned out to be incredibly detailed unknown maps of the UK, drawn up by Soviet mapmakers. He tells Wanstead’s favourite psychogeographer John Rogers @thelostbyway.bsky.social about his find on Tuesday night at the @wansteadfringe.bsky.social
John Davies, author of the Red Atlas
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I read The Observer more regularly now than I did before. Just putting that there.
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Thanks Danny! Glad you enjoyed it!
Wanstead Kinema 2026
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A real pleasure to host @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and Victor Adebowale at the @wansteadcurtain.bsky.social - the first author event of this year’s @wansteadfringe.bsky.social
Lord Adebowale and Peter Geoghegan on stage at the Wanstead CurtainLord Adebowale and Peter Geoghegan on stage at the Wanstead Curtain, with me introducing
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I didn’t write this blurb for my talk at the Wanstead book festival this coming Monday I promise!! My step kids saw it and have taken to calling me ‘the man of the moment’ 😂
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Did Mark Wood say Jordan Cox dissected the fielders? #bbccricket
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I was thinking exactly the same thing. There’s a TPO in place you know.
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Sam Billings for England Captain. 🏏
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Not even a press release - it’s a lift from a Sunday Telegraph article. There are many opportunities for scepticism in the first three pars.
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Westfield Stratford, Saturday 11.15am. This is all the newspapers on sale at “TGJones”. I wonder why they decided to buy WHSmith if they weren’t interested in selling *newspapers*…
Newspaper rack with about 10 copies of tatty tabloids
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Ha! Not so Invincible now. Go Rockets #cricket
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It’s the stress, not the money.
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
You’re an original thinker Dan, make or break you’ll be fine.
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I mean - good luck working out who is playing who today. #cricket #thehundred
Listing for today’s games in the Hundred. One team is playing another. But their logos are unreadable and nearly identical.
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Or “bp” as it would have it
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It really does feel like BP is returning to be part of the problem after years when it was at least attempting to be part of the solution
FT story about BP selling off its solar power division
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
And another thing. The new IPL-Hundred team logos are a complete fail. Absolutely impossible to distinguish what they are.
MI London logoManchester Super Risers (maybe)Leeds Sunvincibles
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Ooh a great result at Lord’s for one random group of players who beat another random group. #cricket #thehundred
Lord’s tonight
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Or, alternatively, Guess What Team I”m Playing For? (now that team names, strips, logos, and player line-ups have been effectively randomised) #thehundred #cricket
BBC Sport quiz “who am I? Guess the  hundred star“
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Is one of the teams called Metropolitan Vim? Anglesey Nailbiter?
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I’ve abandoned my team on principle
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Becky @beckydoggett.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Opening day of the controversial #cricket tournament that is even more controversial this year... normally I'd be really excited but this year I'm just... not. #TheHundred
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Things that are better about the new #thehundred 1. The TV graphics now match the colour of the team strip 2. Literally nothing else. It’s now an incoherent mess. Add it to the list of things the ECB has cocked up.
TV screen of The Hundred showing on-screen graphics where team score is the same colour as the team strip
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Great game
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 12/07/2026
He didn’t pass away. HE DIED.
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Hankinson is a real talent. The Raoul Moat book was outstanding.
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
No
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Take them
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Yeah right. Try dad-bowling on a meadow.
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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Alright, listen up - here's what's happened Donald Trump described Keir Starmer as a tough negotiator & his friend Then Putin texted "Agent Krasnov" like "WTF are u doing Help bring him down, u bubonic paedophile" & so began a series of unhinged, factless posts about Chagos, Iran & Free Speech...
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I’m glad you’re here
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Are you allowed to write about trains?
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
@theobserveruk.bsky.social great paper today
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Uh oh. Four hours later and nothing.
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Checking back periodically for reassurance
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
@rogerquimbly.bsky.social
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
@alanconnor.bsky.social
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Bravo
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
It counts as next day planning for some programmes
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
AND it also had Farage as “cracks are beginning to show”, which you won’t hear on Question Time
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Was good though
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Absolutely right. Do not feed the monster. Do not fuel the machine. You will feel happier, freer, wiser and better for it.
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TezMondTuTu @tezmondtutu.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I’ve been listening to Radio 3 since the 2019 GE for precisely this reason
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Whatever 🙄
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
OK please yourself
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
For once FPTP favours the Lib Dems. Let them have this.
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I thought it was a good joke.
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I mean
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Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Ian Gow
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