#adrianchiles — Public Fediverse posts

It took me 10 years to read this beast of a book – but it was worth it
By Adrian Chiles

First published in 1941, Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is not quite War and Peace. But it comes close

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/03/10-years-to-read-rebecca-west-black-lamb-and-grey-falcon

#Lifeandstyle #Books #Culture #TheGuardian #AdrianChiles

What did I learn in the kitchen this week? The longer it takes to cook, the less you want to eat it | Adrian Chiles
By Adrian Chiles

After grilling, skinning, chopping and stirring, stirring, stirring, my feelings towards my favourite Balkan relish, ajvar, changed. Those Macedonian nans must be made of girders

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/02/what-did-i-learn-in-the-kitchen-this-week-the-longer-it-takes-to-cook-the-less-you-want-to-eat-it

#NorthMacedonia #Europe #Food #Vegetables #Lifeandstyle #TheGuardian #AdrianChiles

BBC The One Show original presenters now as fans say 'never knew'

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/bbc-one-show-original-presenters-37545345

I’d never cried during a live broadcast – then three poignant words had me sobbing | Adrian Chiles
By Adrian Chiles

I couldn’t help choking up when the writer Katriona O’Sullivan told me her life story. Now I’m on a mission to get everyone to read her memoir

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/30/cried-live-broadcast-three-poignant-words-katriona-osullivan

#Poverty #Autobiographyandmemoir #Children #Biographybooks #Books #Socialexclusion #Society #Culture #Ireland #TheGuardian #AdrianChiles

I am used to hot days now. But the warm wind has really panicked me | Adrian Chiles
By Adrian Chiles

I first noticed it a couple of weeks ago on the streets of Cardiff – and it felt alarmingly wrong

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/23/i-am-used-to-hot-days-now-but-the-warm-wind-has-really-panicked-me

#Climatecrisis #Environment #UKweather #Wales #TheGuardian #AdrianChiles

In the bizarre world of short-form video, nobody is allowed to take a breath | Adrian Chiles
By Adrian Chiles

I never thought I’d miss punctuation so much, but as the pauses on social media videos are cut to shreds, I wonder where the assault on our senses will end

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/22/in-the-bizarre-world-of-short-form-video-nobody-is-allowed-to-take-a-breath

#Socialmedia #Digitalmedia #Language #TheGuardian #AdrianChiles

I started filling out a survey - and was plunged into serious soul-searching | Adrian Chiles
By Adrian Chiles

I was full of positivity when I began reading the National Survey for Wales, but the questions quickly grew deeper and deeper

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/16/national-survey-wales-form-questions

#Lifeandstyle #Wales #TheGuardian #AdrianChiles

My neighbours and I were left with no water this week. Why was I the only one who seemed annoyed?
By Adrian Chiles

A burst pipe left me high, dry and desperate to wash my hair. But around me, everyone seemed stoic and unsurprised - no rolling of eyes, tutting or, God forbid, speaking ill of the water company

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/15/no-water-burst-pipe-neighbours

#Water #Environment #Lifeandstyle #TheGuardian #AdrianChiles

"This is my best one yet!"

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/commentisfree/2026/apr/23/my-old-coffee-machine-was-great-i-just-wish-my-new-one-would-shut-up

#CoffeeMachine #Technology #Coffee #AdrianChiles

Palantir Contracts in the NHS

2026-04-23 1100-1300

1115-1130

#Palantir #NHS
#BBCRadio5Live #AdrianChiles

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002v88b

Adrian Chiles reveals skin cancer diagnosis: ‘It’s not nothing but not serious’

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2025/12/04/adrian-chiles-reveals-skin-cancer-diagnosis-its-not-nothing-not-serious-25142590/

Lol, could she follow you around? Does it work with text too?

#AdrianChiles

Forget the racism, Hillsborough, stuff like that....what truly broke Adrian's mind (this week) was seeing a Peregrine Falcon take out a pigeon, apparently a task that the Football club has employed the bird with.

A classic of the genre, his wife is somebody pretty high up in the Guardian I believe....

#AdrianChiles #Football #Horror #TheGuardian #PeregrineFalcon #Pigeon

I see you Chiles, making me side with Cold Callers...

#AdrianChiles

After reading Carole Cadwalladr's lament at being laid off from The Observer, I was wondering if this clown is paid anything for his blog on the newspaper his wife is an editor at?

BTW, he calls his anus, 'the downpipe'

#TheGuardian #TheObserver #AdrianChiles #CaroleCadwalladr

Bringing an old school boombox full of Jungle down to the Tube next time Adrian is out....

#TFL #London #AdrianChiles

And no, I'm not going to link to it because it's Adrian Chiles so it's like paragraphs of rambling, self indulgent British male nonsense that's as dull as it is self congratulating.

#AdrianChiles #TheGuardian

Well they didn't have plastic then Adrian, sorry the Past isn't exciting enough for you and your tiny imagination.

Some of us see a clay tablet from thousands of years ago, making a complaint about shoddy copper and feel so alive and part of Humanity.

You however, as the husband of one of the Guardian editors or something (I heard) whine that ancient pots aren't 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' enough for you....

British clown. (57)

#BritishMuseum #AdrianChiles #Philistine #History #Archoeology

Want a glimpse of dystopia? Visit the self-service checkouts
https://www.theguardian.com/business/commentisfree/2023/aug/02/want-a-glimpse-of-dystopia-visit-the-self-service-checkouts?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#AdrianChiles

Picnic season is here - and I hate it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/13/picnic-season-is-here-and-i-hate-it?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#AdrianChiles

Like potholes and sandals with socks, the British honours system needs to change
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/21/like-potholes-and-sandals-with-socks-the-british-honours-system-needs-to-change?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#AdrianChiles

Keen to build more resilience? Remember there is no ‘I’ in team
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/03/keen-to-build-more-resilience-remember-there-is-no-i-in-team?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#AdrianChiles

What did I learn from Thomas Hardy? Great characters don’t need a back story
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/19/what-did-i-learn-from-thomas-hardy-great-characters-dont-need-a-back-story?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#AdrianChiles

English students spend a fortune to go to university. Shouldn’t that buy them more teaching and less partying?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/29/english-students-spend-a-fortune-to-go-to-university-shouldnt-that-buy-them-more-teaching-and-less-partying?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#AdrianChiles