Giles Wilson
@gillis49
Editor @harpoon.productions. Chair @wansteadfringe.bsky.social. Hinde Street. “One of the most impressive beards I've ever seen” - forensic psychologist Sohom Das
I mean - good luck working out who is playing who today. #cricket #thehundred
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
And another thing. The new IPL-Hundred team logos are a complete fail. Absolutely impossible to distinguish what they are.
Ooh a great result at Lord’s for one random group of players who beat another random group. #cricket #thehundred
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
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.
The day just got better - a story from the marvellous Jeff Maysh in the FT. @janinegibson.ft.com
“Gregor Mendel - Creepy Pioneer of Genetics” in the current @vizcomic.bsky.social is a work of genius
Clive James on making travel documentaries (and the effort he made in his Postcards to say something worthwhile)
Oof. Page 18 of today’s @theguardian.com causing spluttering this morning for 100 brand people.
The new/old @radiotimes.bsky.social masthead *also* warms my heart. But the cover price (£5.50!) makes my jaw drop
Twelve-year-old me didn’t realise Whoopee!’s joke page ‘Smiler’s Smile-In’ was a reference to Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. Fifty-five-year old me has just got the joke. @gnfar.bsky.social
Honest question to my BBC News pals. Is a 4% rise in *English* half-term holiday fines really a much bigger story than a 50-year low murder rate (incl 28% fall in knife deaths)?? Sorry for being tedious but it's almost a textbook example of good things ≠ news.
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
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
@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.
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.