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David Hinchliffe Bradford

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Senior editor (print) Cycling Weekly Curricular and extracurricular work found here: dbfreelance.co.uk Unruly eyes: tinyurl.com/BitBlind 📍Lewes, UK | 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · Nov 11

Hello to new followers 👋

My day job is features editor at Cycling Weekly www.cyclingweekly.com/author/david...

Occasionally Substack in my spare time open.substack.com/pub/davidbra...

And recently had an essay published in GOING TO GROUND uk.bookshop.org/p/books/goin...

Also dbfreelance.co.uk

David’s Substack | David Hinchliffe Bradford | Substack

My personal Substack. Click to read David’s Substack, by David Hinchliffe Bradford, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years ago.

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 19h

Terrific essay by @garthgreenwell.bsky.social on Giovanni's Room and why the best art is anything but consoling

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Enamored of the Abyss, by Garth Greenwell

On the place of affirmation in art

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 21h

Yeah, I'd go along with that. It was at least part coping strategy for me, hence something akin to dependence, but I've known some seemingly very happy runners

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 21h

Can only put my hands up to this, getting too serious about running makes you a sad skinny bore

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Running on empty: why are so many marathon runners so miserable?

One in four endurance runners displays ‘worryingly high’ levels of anxiety and depression, according to a study led by a man who has himself run more than 400 marathons. Isn’t exercise supposed to mak...

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 21h

Amusing snippet from 1951 about Lewes Bonfire and the town's rabid Protestantism

"... there remains one Bonfire Society, out of half a dozen in the town, whose officials continue to talk of the burning of the martyrs as if it had happened early that morning...

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 22h

Alas, those unread books brook no excuses

David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 1d

Your unread books are a stain on your soul

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 1d

Yeah, it was strange being able to live meaningfully for a whole two hours

David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 1d

No mobile data or broadband for a good two hours - it was proper end of days stuff

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Vodafone outage: thousands of broadband and mobile users report problems

Company apologises and says network ‘recovering’ after many customers say there were unable to access services

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 2d

Beside-himself text from @antonjtmcc.bsky.social because he's just walked past Dev from Such Brave Girls (something of an acting hero for us!)

David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 2d

"The second you raise your voice at a student, you’ve lost"

An interesting exchange

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Dining across the divide: ‘He was shocked when I told him that schools weaponise anxiety’

They both dabble in knitting and disagree about the school system, but could they see eye-to-eye on AI?

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 2d

Searing truths about Israel, the West and complicity in genocide from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social

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While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 3d

UK: world-beating repression

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The Gaza effect: how a global pro-Palestine protest movement met repression and resistance

Across the west, solidarity marches are testing governments’ tolerance for dissent. From arrests to bans, free-speech boundaries are shifting

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 3d

Possibly failing to read between the lines here, Tom, but would you recommend watching it?

David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 4d

RIP Peter Hall, legendary local winemaker

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Peter Hall Biography: 1943-2025 — Breaky Bottom

Peter Hall Biography: 1943-2025 Peter Hall lived his life like a character from a Dickens novel: his fortunes were made and broken innumerable times across his long career as a pioneer of English wi...

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 4d

Another Brexit bonanza from tomorrow 🫆

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Will the EU’s new fingerprint entry system cause gridlock? The Guardian tried it out

The scheme, which operators feared would cause chaos at airports, ports and railway stations, is finally coming into force

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 4d

You nudged me to buy Abundance. So far, so impressed 🙏

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 5d

Derek Gee cites "serious concerns from a personal-belief standpoint that weighed heavily on my conscience" as reason for leaving Israel-Premier Tech

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'Serious concerns from a safety and personal-belief standpoint that weighed heavily on my conscience' – Derek Gee opens up on Israel-Premier Tech contract termination

Canadian says that he might owe €30 million to team in damages

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 5d

"Prince William visibly moved"

... reads like an Onion headline to me. Are you sure about this one, BBC?

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 5d

I'm night-blind so am (very) biased

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 5d

I'd love it!

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 5d

And then you'll want to know more about Joe, so here's my interview with him...

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3. Joe Rizzo Naudi - writer

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 5d

Fascinating R4 programme by my friend @josephrizzonaudi.bsky.social about how not-seeing can bring new creative, collaborative dimensions to visual art

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Artworks - Ways of Not Seeing - BBC Sounds

Exploring how blind approaches to art description bring galleries to life for everyone.

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 6d

A (thankfully very rare) production balls-up meant this feature was published in today's mag with a page missing. So, here it is online, in full glorious completeness, with our grovelling apology...

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Could this be the happiest ride on Earth? Cycling on car free roads in the Dolomites might be hard, but it's also pure joy

Italy's Sellaronda Bike Day is a car-free celebration of cycling across legendary Giro d’Italia climbs. We didn’t need asking twice…

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 6d

“readers who haven’t read my books... I’d advise to go out, sit down somewhere, perhaps by the side of a brook, with nothing to do, nothing to think about, just remaining in silence like stones. They will eventually meet someone who has already read my books”

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László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

The Hungarian novelist whose books ‘reaffirm the power of art’ was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 6d

Decent but deluded!