Willy Maley

@Rokewood Not just the centre but the so-called peripheries too.

Unsurprisingly, a 2026 morality tale of the decline of Glasgow’s City Centre—civic dilapidation; vacant lots; unkempt streets; dodgy & down-at-heel retail outlets; municipal political paralysis. *Plus* the return of Tinderbox City theferret.scot/revealed-compa…

Happy St Patrick’s Day! willymaley.scot/2024/03/17/iri…

@Rokewood Perpetrator rather than victim?

The levels of journalistic over-reaction to the events at Ibrox last Sunday are illustrative of the widespread ignorance—& amnesia—with which today’s journalists are afflicted. BBC Scotland sadly a major victim of this hysteria

@bigandymccoll We’ll be singing the Internationale together on that cloud.

@MaleyWilly Ma wee sis will be raising a glass tae ye and keeping ye a place on the cloud she's occupying upstairs Willy. Seeing "Calton to Catalonia" wi her is wan o my fondest memories. Thanks bhoy.

Soon to be an ex-professor but my commitment to research remains bone deep. archive.ph/U72Mw

@pmarsh226 @AndrewH_CelticU Thanks! That play was a great experience, and I got to meet the Lions at the Tron in ‘92.

@MaleyWilly Hi there Willy, good luck in your remaining years ! I’ve got this as a wee memorial to you. take care @AndrewH_CelticU

@JeanFind @Rokewood Well I have the will and will find a way.

@MaleyWilly @Rokewood That is a very evidence-based approach brother! What I would expect from a distinguished academic such as what you are... "Will-to-live and survival in a 10-year follow-up among older people - PubMed" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22762904/

@Rokewood @JeanFind I aim to abide as long as I can so thanks Bob!

@MaleyWilly @JeanFind ‘but the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy…Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?’ You are there with the best of men, Willy. Stay put pls

@matthews27306 Thanks Carol, and my final body of work - my body itself - will be fantastic too!

@MaleyWilly A wonderful article -what a fantastic body of work you leave behind -Possilpark&Glasgow’s bard. Cx

@mickbrick54 Your words are always well chosen and well received Eva.

👇I don’t have the words to do Willy justice. All the best to you and yours Willy.

@JeanFind From my cold dead hand. But then my boney fingers will snatch it back.

@MaleyWilly Hang on! Will they remove our emeritus status when we die? Nobody told me this!

@piersmorgan On 5 August 1944 Churchill stood up in the House of Commons and declared that the Soviet Union had torn the guts out of the Nazi war machine. The speech is in Hansard. However much of a racist imperialist he was Churchill was also a historian.

Disgusting... and what these morons will never understand is that they're only free to do this in Britain because Churchill saved us from the Nazis.

@SonyaDouglas @WomenReadWomen They’ll be coming after Psycho next.

One of the foremost feminist films of its time, now apologising for depicting a murderous crossdresser bc nowadays we’re not allowed to admit that crossdressers commit murder

@ShaykhSulaiman “By common consent” - real weasel words.

Piers Morgan: “What happens to a country like Russia, which committed war crimes emerges unpunished for any of this?” Jeffrey Sachs: “Well, if the US were punished for all its war crimes, the world would be a better place... if Israel was punished for its Genocide”

@Rokewood Yes I’d like that. 4-6 July as I recall. Let’s do it.

@MaleyWilly I know you’ve lots on your mind, Willy. But with your intellect at high pitch, I’d love us to post something to mark the 40th Anniversary of The Linguistics of Writing 1986-2026. As Strathclyders too

When The Guardian was grooming Peter Mandelson as the next Labour Leader: theguardian.com/politics/2009/…

@Rokewood That’s very kind of you Bob. I find research palliative and therapeutic. I used to joke about the healing power of footnotes but it’s serious now.

@MaleyWilly Thinking of you, Willy. Your intelligence as fluent & illuminating as ever.

Back on the chemo trail again. Wrote this wee history of the treatment, trying to unravel the mystery. It’s no magic bullet but it can target cancer cells and mine have triggered a spread. willymaley.scot/2026/01/20/che…