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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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
First-century BC soldier, returning home after a lifetime at war, meets a villager who says to him:
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
First-century BC soldier, returning home after a lifetime at war, meets a villager who says to him:
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Actual analysis of the BBC’s coverage of Gaza is devastating for Prescott and the right wing attacks on the BBC. Ratio of Israeli-Palestinian deaths: 1 /34. Ratio of coverage of those deaths: 19 / 1.
cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-...
cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-...
BBC On Gaza-Israel: One Story, Double Standards - Centre For Media Monitoring
cfmm.org.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Actual analysis of the BBC’s coverage of Gaza is devastating for Prescott and the right wing attacks on the BBC. Ratio of Israeli-Palestinian deaths: 1 /34. Ratio of coverage of those deaths: 19 / 1.
cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-...
cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-...
Very solid interpretation of the John Lewis xmas ad
I’m still convinced he killed someone at a rave years ago and that’s not his son it’s a ghost.
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Very solid interpretation of the John Lewis xmas ad
"in the ocean, per every human, there exist 21,000 pieces of plastic, a net mass of shopping bags and six-pack rings and bottle caps that by 2050 will exceed the weight of all fish put together and is expected to double every six years for the foreseeable future" 😮
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
"in the ocean, per every human, there exist 21,000 pieces of plastic, a net mass of shopping bags and six-pack rings and bottle caps that by 2050 will exceed the weight of all fish put together and is expected to double every six years for the foreseeable future" 😮
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Amazing writing! Glad you had a good time, @dbfreelance.co.uk
Heard about an Irish scheme that pays £70k to anyone willing to set up home on an offshore island – so felt duty-bound to go and scope out a couple...
www.cyclingweekly.com/travel/irish...
www.cyclingweekly.com/travel/irish...
Three miles long by two wide: Why touring Ireland's tiny islands makes no sense at all – yet is utterly addictive
Hearing rumours of empty space, tranquillity and generous repopulation grants, we set sail for Ireland's offshore islands, dreaming of freedom
www.cyclingweekly.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Amazing writing! Glad you had a good time, @dbfreelance.co.uk
Heard about an Irish scheme that pays £70k to anyone willing to set up home on an offshore island – so felt duty-bound to go and scope out a couple...
www.cyclingweekly.com/travel/irish...
www.cyclingweekly.com/travel/irish...
Three miles long by two wide: Why touring Ireland's tiny islands makes no sense at all – yet is utterly addictive
Hearing rumours of empty space, tranquillity and generous repopulation grants, we set sail for Ireland's offshore islands, dreaming of freedom
www.cyclingweekly.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Heard about an Irish scheme that pays £70k to anyone willing to set up home on an offshore island – so felt duty-bound to go and scope out a couple...
www.cyclingweekly.com/travel/irish...
www.cyclingweekly.com/travel/irish...
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
If anyone tells you they like the book Sapiens, treat it as a massive red flag 🚩
This is a v fun demolition:
open.spotify.com/episode/1IeS...
This is a v fun demolition:
open.spotify.com/episode/1IeS...
Sapiens
open.spotify.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
If anyone tells you they like the book Sapiens, treat it as a massive red flag 🚩
This is a v fun demolition:
open.spotify.com/episode/1IeS...
This is a v fun demolition:
open.spotify.com/episode/1IeS...
Finding this hard to parse. Was the problem that the RE amounted to indoctrination?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK Supreme Court rules RE taught in NI schools is unlawful
The Christian religious education taught in schools in Northern Ireland is unlawful, the UK Supreme Court has ruled.
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Finding this hard to parse. Was the problem that the RE amounted to indoctrination?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I too was hustled by the faux-freelancer Victoria Goldiee. Thankfully she was deterred by our rates 😂
thelocal.to/investigatin...
thelocal.to/investigatin...
November 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I too was hustled by the faux-freelancer Victoria Goldiee. Thankfully she was deterred by our rates 😂
thelocal.to/investigatin...
thelocal.to/investigatin...
"his eyelids were like pigeons' eggs, half submerged in rich cream soup. There was a statue's subsmile round his mouth. The temples were damp with sleep, a very fine rime had gathered on his lip...
November 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"his eyelids were like pigeons' eggs, half submerged in rich cream soup. There was a statue's subsmile round his mouth. The temples were damp with sleep, a very fine rime had gathered on his lip...
Gustave Doré’s The New Zealander (1872) - London in ruins
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Gustave Doré’s The New Zealander (1872) - London in ruins
Mad how Specsavers insists on charging twice as much for a reglaze as for a complete new pair of specs. Specwasters, more like
November 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Mad how Specsavers insists on charging twice as much for a reglaze as for a complete new pair of specs. Specwasters, more like
Ahhh Brighton, always that glorious whiff of spunk on the air
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Ahhh Brighton, always that glorious whiff of spunk on the air
How the hell does Southern Water get away with not paying for the clean-up? 😡
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘We feel we’re fighting a losing battle’: the race to remove millions of plastic beads from Camber Sands
A huge cleanup effort has seen volunteers working to remove beads by hand and machine. They can only wait and see the extent of damage to wildlife and dune habitat
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
How the hell does Southern Water get away with not paying for the clean-up? 😡
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I am bewildered that this labour of Sisyphus is being carried out by volunteers, while Southern Water, which has admitted responsibility for the catastrophe, is doing nothing to remediate it.
‘We feel we’re fighting a losing battle’: the race to remove millions of plastic beads from Camber Sands
A huge cleanup effort has seen volunteers working to remove beads by hand and machine. They can only wait and see the extent of damage to wildlife and dune habitat
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I am bewildered that this labour of Sisyphus is being carried out by volunteers, while Southern Water, which has admitted responsibility for the catastrophe, is doing nothing to remediate it.
U-turn on a U-turn that hasn't happened is a real pants pisser of a lead news story
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
U-turn on a U-turn that hasn't happened is a real pants pisser of a lead news story
This short 1970 doc about marathoner Jim Alder is the perfect corrective to the influencer-generated positivity cult that running has become
Training is "a bind" and he only keeps at it because his freelance writing pays £16/wk at best 😆
youtu.be/7C53MfgyxDY?...
Training is "a bind" and he only keeps at it because his freelance writing pays £16/wk at best 😆
youtu.be/7C53MfgyxDY?...
1970: Mindset of a Marathon Man | Look Stranger | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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November 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This short 1970 doc about marathoner Jim Alder is the perfect corrective to the influencer-generated positivity cult that running has become
Training is "a bind" and he only keeps at it because his freelance writing pays £16/wk at best 😆
youtu.be/7C53MfgyxDY?...
Training is "a bind" and he only keeps at it because his freelance writing pays £16/wk at best 😆
youtu.be/7C53MfgyxDY?...
Don't care what the question is, Wes Streeting is not the answer
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Don't care what the question is, Wes Streeting is not the answer
Meanwhile, NHS waiting time for initial pre surgery assessment: 59 weeks 😞
Mother's in back strife & GP faffery compelled us to go private. Jesus. Scant change from £1,000 for two 15min consultations and a scan 🤑
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Meanwhile, NHS waiting time for initial pre surgery assessment: 59 weeks 😞
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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
davidbradford.substack.com/p/clearing-u...
davidbradford.substack.com/p/clearing-u...
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
davidbradford.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
New Substack post: about how inheriting a proof copy of a 1930s book led to some amazing (and some horrible) discoveries
davidbradford.substack.com/p/clearing-u...
davidbradford.substack.com/p/clearing-u...
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"It seemed increasingly plausible that, faced with this onslaught, some percentage of psychically defenseless men would simply crumple... and start watching porn full-time"
share.google/6jf42o9UTGOc...
share.google/6jf42o9UTGOc...
The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz
Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation
share.google
November 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"It seemed increasingly plausible that, faced with this onslaught, some percentage of psychically defenseless men would simply crumple... and start watching porn full-time"
share.google/6jf42o9UTGOc...
share.google/6jf42o9UTGOc...
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My latest Substack post: how inheriting a proof copy of a 1930s travel book from my grandmother led to some surprising - both wonderful and awful - discoveries
open.substack.com/pub/davidbra...
open.substack.com/pub/davidbra...
November 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
My latest Substack post: how inheriting a proof copy of a 1930s travel book from my grandmother led to some surprising - both wonderful and awful - discoveries
open.substack.com/pub/davidbra...
open.substack.com/pub/davidbra...