David Hinchliffe Bradford
@dbfreelance.co.uk
Senior editor (print) Cycling Weekly
Curricular and extracurricular work here: dbfreelance.co.uk
Unruly eyes: tinyurl.com/BitBlind
📍Lewes, UK | 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈
Curricular and extracurricular work here: dbfreelance.co.uk
Unruly eyes: tinyurl.com/BitBlind
📍Lewes, UK | 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈
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Clearing up after great men: Granny Blackburn and the mess of post-imperial Britain
A bookcase, a mysterious proof copy, and a reckoning with colonial-era inheritances
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New Substack post: about how inheriting a proof copy of a 1930s book led to some amazing (and some horrible) discoveries
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Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist
January 11, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist
Overheard multiple people on the street today bemoaning Marty Supreme, fully animated about what a drag they found it. Meanwhile the paid reviewers rave. WHOM TO BELIEVE? 🏓
January 10, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Overheard multiple people on the street today bemoaning Marty Supreme, fully animated about what a drag they found it. Meanwhile the paid reviewers rave. WHOM TO BELIEVE? 🏓
Whereas for me, the song initiated me into the cult of REM adoration
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My cultural awakening: Losing My Religion by REM helped me escape a doomsday cult
I had been a member of the Children of God for two decades, but was growing disillusioned with its controlling behaviour and increasingly worrying sexual practices. Then I heard Michael Stipe’s lyrics...
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January 10, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Whereas for me, the song initiated me into the cult of REM adoration
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For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
January 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
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I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance".
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
January 8, 2026 at 8:38 AM
I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance".
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
Imagine overcoming sharp gingerbread only to succumb to doughy-faced Lords
Gladstone was now 83 & in failing health.
During the election he'd been run over by a taxi, trampled by a bull & nearly blinded by a sharp piece of gingerbread.
But he carried the Bill through the Commons & sent it to the Lords with a last appeal for peace.
The peers crushed it by 419 votes to 41
During the election he'd been run over by a taxi, trampled by a bull & nearly blinded by a sharp piece of gingerbread.
But he carried the Bill through the Commons & sent it to the Lords with a last appeal for peace.
The peers crushed it by 419 votes to 41
January 7, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Imagine overcoming sharp gingerbread only to succumb to doughy-faced Lords
Started Blue Lights but struggling w/ verisimilitude issues such as lack of armoured Land Rovers when they're most needed 🤔
January 5, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Started Blue Lights but struggling w/ verisimilitude issues such as lack of armoured Land Rovers when they're most needed 🤔
Is there any such thing as a non-evil printer? Your advice for my mother please 🙏
January 5, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Is there any such thing as a non-evil printer? Your advice for my mother please 🙏
This reminded me of Nomadland; elegant, elegaic and quietly hopeful
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January 2, 2026 at 4:15 PM
This reminded me of Nomadland; elegant, elegaic and quietly hopeful
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Private fuck property
December 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Private fuck property
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"List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending":
1. Action Against Hunger
2. ActionAid
3. Alianza por la Solidaridad
4. Campaign for the Children of Palestine
5. CARE
6. DanChurchAid
7. Danish Refugee Council
8. Handicap International: Humanity & Inclusion
(cont)
1. Action Against Hunger
2. ActionAid
3. Alianza por la Solidaridad
4. Campaign for the Children of Palestine
5. CARE
6. DanChurchAid
7. Danish Refugee Council
8. Handicap International: Humanity & Inclusion
(cont)
December 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending":
1. Action Against Hunger
2. ActionAid
3. Alianza por la Solidaridad
4. Campaign for the Children of Palestine
5. CARE
6. DanChurchAid
7. Danish Refugee Council
8. Handicap International: Humanity & Inclusion
(cont)
1. Action Against Hunger
2. ActionAid
3. Alianza por la Solidaridad
4. Campaign for the Children of Palestine
5. CARE
6. DanChurchAid
7. Danish Refugee Council
8. Handicap International: Humanity & Inclusion
(cont)
This quote from @thomasbeller.bsky.social's latest Substack struck a discomforting chord
"There is a fine line between working from home and living at work.”
"There is a fine line between working from home and living at work.”
December 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This quote from @thomasbeller.bsky.social's latest Substack struck a discomforting chord
"There is a fine line between working from home and living at work.”
"There is a fine line between working from home and living at work.”
Reading @jeremyathertonlin.bsky.social's brilliant Deep House & reminded that it's 20 years since the UK's first civil partnership - Chris Cramp and Matthew Roche, in Worthing, 5 Dec 2005. Matthew died the next day.
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West Sussex couple were among UK's first same-sex civil partnerships
Chris Cramp and Matthew Roche were one of the UK's first same-sex couples to become civil partners.
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December 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Reading @jeremyathertonlin.bsky.social's brilliant Deep House & reminded that it's 20 years since the UK's first civil partnership - Chris Cramp and Matthew Roche, in Worthing, 5 Dec 2005. Matthew died the next day.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What really hits home at this time of year is boomers' extraordinary tolerance of instant coffee
December 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
What really hits home at this time of year is boomers' extraordinary tolerance of instant coffee
Merry Christmas 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Merry Christmas 🎄
"For 25 years, I was contracted to produce three articles a year, long ones, typically 10,000 words. For this, my peak salary was $498,141. That's not a misprint-$498,141, or more than $166,000 per story... Yes, I realized it was obscene. I took it with a grin."
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Bryan Burrough on Graydon Carter's Memoir and Vanity Fair’s Golden Era
Lavish budgets, high-society gossip, and headline-making journalism— Vanity Fair under Graydon Carter was the last great magazine empire. Bryan Burrough…
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December 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"For 25 years, I was contracted to produce three articles a year, long ones, typically 10,000 words. For this, my peak salary was $498,141. That's not a misprint-$498,141, or more than $166,000 per story... Yes, I realized it was obscene. I took it with a grin."
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December 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Have listened to a few of these, and IMO Blood Relatives much more deserving of the top spot than Wisecrack
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The 20 best podcasts of 2025
Can Bill Nighy solve your life problems? Why are comedians moonlighting as detectives? And what happens when an AI steals your heart? This year’s most addictive podcasts …
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December 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Have listened to a few of these, and IMO Blood Relatives much more deserving of the top spot than Wisecrack
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En route to Farnham and you'll never guess who comes on the radio...
December 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
En route to Farnham and you'll never guess who comes on the radio...
Second-hand herd for the niece 🎁
December 23, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Second-hand herd for the niece 🎁
View from the bin
December 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
View from the bin
Read Jacqueline Rose's latest and then had a terrible dream in which I had to present Netanyahu with gifts
(two packets of already-opened dried food and a very cheap bottle of wine – as some kind of desperate, impotent protest)
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
(two packets of already-opened dried food and a very cheap bottle of wine – as some kind of desperate, impotent protest)
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Jacqueline Rose · When the Messiah Comes: When I met Netanyahu
Netanyahu is trying to absolve himself of a guilt whose reality he denies. He wants to be declared innocent without...
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December 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Read Jacqueline Rose's latest and then had a terrible dream in which I had to present Netanyahu with gifts
(two packets of already-opened dried food and a very cheap bottle of wine – as some kind of desperate, impotent protest)
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
(two packets of already-opened dried food and a very cheap bottle of wine – as some kind of desperate, impotent protest)
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...