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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 · 5h

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 · 8h

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 · 22h

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

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

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 · 1d

"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 · 1d

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

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

I'd love it!

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

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

“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 · 2d

Decent but deluded!

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

Better still: GMT+1 in the winter, and GMT+2 in the summer

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 2d

Daylight saving times should be abolished. We are no longer living in the 19th century, we can do without. It'll be great for mental health, and people hating early darkness during the evening. BST timezone should be permanent

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

Lewes

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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

Only if the box is empty

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

The Traitors is vacuous and appeals to the worst in human nature – fact!

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

This is great advice

(When I reject a pitch, it's generally not because the idea is a total dud - more often bc we've published something similar recently, or bc the core thru-line isn't quite clear enough & I can't conceive how it'll work on the page, etc)

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‘Stay true to yourself – and fly closer to the sun’: what I’ve learned from 50 years of rejection

As a writer, I have been rejected thousands of times, and it initially led to shock, denial and anger. Then I accepted it. Here’s what you can gain from doing so too

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

Yeah, quite - while the truth around UPFs remains opaque

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

Killer protein bars – really? Tempted to watch the Joe Wicks doc but have a hunch it's going to annoy me

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

It also rather trivialises livestock mutilation - a (grim) feature of the Land War

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Land War - Wikipedia

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

Watched this yesterday, & one (of several) big problems with it was its lack of respect for biological plausibility: the mother of Jack (Barry Keoghan, 32) was played by Nora-Jane Noone, 41

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Bring Them Down review – Barry Keoghan stars in a bruising Irish tale of rural blood feuds

Christopher Andrews’s visceral feature debut also boasts US actor Christopher Abbott speaking in Irish and a terrifying turn from Motherland’s Paul Ready

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

Arson attack at Peacehaven mosque. Horrifying

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Mosque fire being treated as arson - everything we know so far

A fire at a mosque is being treated as arson.

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

Amy's aftermath

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 7d

Tommy Robinson invited to Israel by Amichai Chikli the Minister of Diaspora Affairs.

In the wake of the horrific Manchester terrorist
attack, Israel and the Jewish people stand firmly
with our allies in the United Kingdom.

On behalf of the State of Israel, I am proud to
host British patriot @TRobinsonNewEra who will
visit Israel in mid-October.

Tommy is a courageous leader on the front line
against radical Islam.

At a time when Jews across Europe face rising
antisemitism, it is vital to strengthen bonds with
allies who refuse to be silent.

He has proven himself a true friend of Israel and
the Jewish people, unafraid to speak the truth
and confront hate.

Israel will always stand with the Jewish
community and our allies worldwide. Together
with friends like Tommy Robinson, we will build
stronger bridges of solidarity, fight terror,

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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk · 7d

Good piece on late Lewes luminary Asa Briggs – had forgotten about his wild road trip w/ young Rupert Murdoch, & never knew he had a fling w/ Iris Murdoch. Quite the brace! Always enjoy Neal Ascherson's writing

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Neal Ascherson · Professor Heathrow: Asa Briggs says yes

Asa Briggs used sweeping educational change to increase equality in England. He helped to make history, as well as...

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