A. A. Gill
A. A. (Adrian) Gill (born June 28, 1954) is a British newspaper columnist and writer. He is also restaurant reviewer in the Style section of the London Sunday Times.
He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and studied at the Slade School of Art.
He is notorious for his acerbic style, on one occasion in 1997 describing the Welsh as 'loquacious, dissemblers, immoral liars, stunted, bigoted, dark, ugly, pugnacious little trolls', while two years later he angered Germans with an article called 'Hunforgiven', making numerous references to their Nazi past. In 2004, when writing about the ITV drama Island at War, based on the German occupation of Jersey and Guernsey, he asked "What have the Channel Islands ever done for us? A couple of really expensive potatoes, a few flowers and fatty milk."
AA Gill looks English, sounds English, but he disowns membership of a tribe he feels is made ugly by its simmering anger. "I don’t like the English. One at a time, I don’t mind them. I’ve loved some of them. It’s their collective persona I can’t warm to: the lumpen and louty, coarse, unsubtle, beady-eyed, beefy-bummed herd of England." "The truth is — and perhaps this is a little unworthy, a bit shameful — I find England and the English embarrassing. Fundamentally toe-curlingly embarrassing. And even though I look like one, sound like one, can imitate the social/mating behaviour of one, I’m not one. I always bridle with irritation when taken for an Englishman, and fill in those disembarkation cards by pedantically writing “Scots” in the appropriate box." (excert from his book - "The Angry Island")
His reviews of restaurants are also known for their frequent lack of detail about the food itself.
He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and studied at the Slade School of Art.
He is notorious for his acerbic style, on one occasion in 1997 describing the Welsh as 'loquacious, dissemblers, immoral liars, stunted, bigoted, dark, ugly, pugnacious little trolls', while two years later he angered Germans with an article called 'Hunforgiven', making numerous references to their Nazi past. In 2004, when writing about the ITV drama Island at War, based on the German occupation of Jersey and Guernsey, he asked "What have the Channel Islands ever done for us? A couple of really expensive potatoes, a few flowers and fatty milk."
AA Gill looks English, sounds English, but he disowns membership of a tribe he feels is made ugly by its simmering anger. "I don’t like the English. One at a time, I don’t mind them. I’ve loved some of them. It’s their collective persona I can’t warm to: the lumpen and louty, coarse, unsubtle, beady-eyed, beefy-bummed herd of England." "The truth is — and perhaps this is a little unworthy, a bit shameful — I find England and the English embarrassing. Fundamentally toe-curlingly embarrassing. And even though I look like one, sound like one, can imitate the social/mating behaviour of one, I’m not one. I always bridle with irritation when taken for an Englishman, and fill in those disembarkation cards by pedantically writing “Scots” in the appropriate box." (excert from his book - "The Angry Island")
His reviews of restaurants are also known for their frequent lack of detail about the food itself.
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