Alasdair Gillon

Wanderer. Writer. Teacher of EAP @EdinburghUni. Working on MSc Applied Linguistics @UofGlasgow.

[Alasdair Gillon @AllyGillon]

@TomBewick @guardian Misinformation. The new checks would not apply if UK citizens had remained EU citizens. They do not apply to any EU citizens. They are solely the result of Britain leaving the EU.

Also, reciprocity will not mitigate the loss of status for individual travellers. @TomBewick.

[Alasdair Gillon @AllyGillon]

First time I've ever done research interviews and I want to know who to thank for automatic transcription software. I've got non-native English, working class Scots, mumbles & overlapping speech, and a robot made in California calmly renders all. I'm saved 36 hours of drudgery.

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@IanFarnes @thiwurd Yep - I know no Afrikaans, but by all accounts this is a good one! It was partly the language that I found so unsettling.

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@IanFarnes @thiwurd Red Dog by Willem Anker transl. Michiel Heyns. It's both beautiful and brutal - and often manages to be both at the same time. Esp unnerving as it's so convincing - rec'd to me by a S.African friend for a glimpse into that country's history.

[Alasdair Gillon @AllyGillon]

This wee poem by Tom Leonard is perfect for Edinburgh today:

Scotland has become an independent socialist republic.
At Last.

Eh?
You pinch yourself.
Jesus Christ. You've slept in again.

[Alasdair Gillon @AllyGillon]

This year I return to Spain, where I lived freely for 8 years. Heartbroken that this time I've got 90 days before I get kicked out.

[Nick Lloyd @Civil_War_Spain]

Shock of war.
-Refugees in Almería after escaping Franco and Mussolini's fascist bombing on road from Málaga. February 1937. Gerda Taro.
-Refugees in Kiev metro, hiding from Putin's fascist bombing. March 2022. Financial Times. Don't know photographer.

[Alasdair Gillon @AllyGillon]

Summer fled. The

waters rose. How
do I organise
myself now. How do I
find sufficient

ignorance.
https://t.co/dIKxoOMeAq

[Alasdair Gillon @AllyGillon]

Please sign. Genoveses is a wild, insanely beautiful and fragile corner of Europe.
Since the centre/far right took Andalucía they've been diluting the laws so that their mates can build a hotel on this pristine volcanic wilderness. They need to be stopped. https://t.co/IByObnjM8W

[Alasdair Gillon @AllyGillon]

@laylabenitezjam @NEAarts @lawrenceschimel @jshyue @whitnefied Really exciting, Layla! Congrats!👏

[Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @BlakeFriedmann]

We’re so pleased to share this striking cover for OXBLOOD – @Tom_Benn’s fierce and vivid new novel, set in 1980s Manchester.

Published by @BloomsburyBooks next April, OXBLOOD is available to pre-order now: https://t.co/WPwCb4NG2E 📚

[Alasdair Gillon @AllyGillon]

Yes it is.

[Ani @av1503]

The Armenian alphabet is a beautiful piece of art

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@IanFarnes @KeeperOfPybus @Tom_Benn Yeah, I did think that was maybe when you were in Madrid, more or less. The coincidences!

[Alasdair Gillon @AllyGillon]

@IanFarnes @KeeperOfPybus @Tom_Benn Yeah, it resonated for me as well. Different contexts - but just the idea of so many paths crossing in the past. ... A near crossing paths with someone like Ian Brady though - I don't think I have that!😅

[Alasdair Gillon @AllyGillon]

@IanFarnes @KeeperOfPybus Stuart Hall and Stuart Hall by @Tom_Benn. I misremembered it as a lyric essay - it's a story, but it's got the poetry and lyric voice. And it's as good as the prize suggests. https://t.co/GxoHbtFC5J

[Tom Benn @Tom_Benn]

My story 'Stuart Hall and Stuart Hall' is now available in full online via Structo issue 20 (pages 46-52). It was the runner-up prize-winner for the 2019 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize. It features family history, serial killers & George Formby. https://t.co/7dwbE1iQlX

[Alasdair Gillon @AllyGillon]

He saw how the white man's language was a weapon of war. ('The red plague rid you for learning me your language.') ~Bruce Chatwin, on Shakespeare

[X-Ray Eyes  @fearofyou]

Germano Celant e l'Arte povera.
Giuseppe Penone, Rovesciare i propri occhi, 1970

[Alasdair Gillon @AllyGillon]

@Civil_War_Spain @ConJamonSpain But we like to keep that quiet 😉

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@Jeffrsanders Thanks, I heard there had been a documentary / news story. That's the one.

[Alasdair Gillon @AllyGillon]

Hey Twitter. What is this doing in #Edinburgh, does anyone know? Anything to do with #NagornoKarabakh seems... utterly improbable. Some kind of gallery... I've started learning something recently but if anyone knows more I'd be interested to hear about it.

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@Jeffrsanders #newtownflaneur other New Town worthies?