@GordonJThomson

Editor and writer. https://xitter.cf/t.co/7yQolrZFx2 @barleymagazine Previous tours of duty The Independent, The Mail, The Sunday Times, Observer, Time Out

 Nunhead, London
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Joined April 2011
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The brilliant travel writer @Traveloguer on his search for the spirit of Dylan Thomas in Laugharne barleymagazine.com/blog/liba…
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I wrote about Jura and George Orwell open.substack.com/pub/barley…
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Peckham skies
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🥃 Sign up to our newsletter here and get Barley delivered to your inbox every month barleymagazine.com/subscribe Happy reading. Slainte!
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We had a great chat with @RealKiefer about his new @redbankwhisky Toronto dive bars and what Picasso taught him about tasting notes barleymagazine.com/blog/the-…
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August wouldn’t be the same without @GreenManFest
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Hugely chuffed to get an early (signed!) copy of this dazzling new edition of my brilliant brother @GraemeAThomson ‘s magnificent Kate Bush book. It’s a treat, beautifully written and very handsomely designed. Out on June 27. Buy buy buy!!
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Had a nice chat with @RealKiefer about all things whisky, including the one he has launched @redbankwhisky @gibsonguitar 🎸🇨🇦🥃🤘 Story coming soon…
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I wrote about the beetle that save Scotch on Whisky Rocks, Barley’s new Substack channel open.substack.com/pub/barley…
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Vote @SadiqKhan today and keep our wonderful, flawed city proudly multi-ethnic and multi-cultural and out of the hands of toxic Trump & Farage supporting Tories #LondonElections2024
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Another pretty much perfect day on Arran.
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Back in glorious Arran for the first time in years. What a place. @VisitScotland @auchrannie
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Best view from a first tee in world golf? This one not too shabby - any guesses where it is? Might be one for @lawrencedonegan
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Or indeed @estellecostanza
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Chris Moss@Traveloguer23 Apr 2024
Manc music ramble for/versus the non-opening of Co-op Live (that’ll teach me not to rely on Corporate Manchester for a peg): theguardian.com/travel/2024/…

A musical tour of Manchester: from the Hallé to the Happy Mondays

Every genre of music has made its mark on Manchester, including dialect ballads, classical, TV theme tunes and all the strands of post-punk. Welcome to the north-west sound

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Poor old Gazza ⁦@jimw1⁩ for the ⁦@Independent⁩ independent.co.uk/sport/foot…

Gazza says he’s a sad drunk – I’ll remember him as the football genius

He has spent the last decade in an endless round of therapy, addiction and loneliness, all his money snaffled by advisers and hangers-on, says Jim White. His appearance on a podcast this week was a...

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Super piece by ⁦@jessiecath⁩ for ⁦@Independent⁩ independent.co.uk/arts-enter…

Why Barbara Comyns is the best English novelist you’ve never heard of

In the strange, beguiling novels of mid-century writer Barbara Comyns, girls levitate and ducks swim through drawing rooms, while her own colourful life included a friendship with spy Kim Philby, and...

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Inside the British army camp training ordinary Ukrainians for the frontline @guywalters for @Independent tinyurl.com/2s35nfpy
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The best and most brutal sporting spectacle in the world? @jimw1 reckons so @Independent independent.co.uk/sport/six-…

Welcome to the pressure dome: Kick-off for sport’s most brutal test

New faces, old rivalries: Six Nations stalwarts Dan Biggar, Antoine Dupont, Johnny Sexton, Stuart Hogg and Owen Farrell have hung up their boots or won’t feature, so it’s time for the next generation...

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