David Gledhill
@gledbach.bsky.social
Last year, I did of lot of walking in the Pyrenees
This year, I am doing a lot of writing about walking in the Pyrenees
I find I am going the long way round & keep getting lost.
I will get there. One day.
This year, I am doing a lot of writing about walking in the Pyrenees
I find I am going the long way round & keep getting lost.
I will get there. One day.
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“Let's make Together for Palestine's record this year's Christmas No 1.” Musician and activist Brian Eno explains why one song in particular matters this Christmas.
December 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“Let's make Together for Palestine's record this year's Christmas No 1.” Musician and activist Brian Eno explains why one song in particular matters this Christmas.
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Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧
October 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧
Suart's right.
Handsworth, what a place.
Handsworth Library, what a place. I still have my set of brown cardboard tickets in shoebox somewhere.
Off to seek out a copy Hope and Glory. It had passed me by until now.
Handsworth, what a place.
Handsworth Library, what a place. I still have my set of brown cardboard tickets in shoebox somewhere.
Off to seek out a copy Hope and Glory. It had passed me by until now.
I know Handsworth well. I love it. The Soho Road is one of the most vibrant streets in the world. I was attached to the library there for a writing project last year and I wrote a whole chunk about it in my book Hope And Glory. Read it if you get a chance
October 10, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Suart's right.
Handsworth, what a place.
Handsworth Library, what a place. I still have my set of brown cardboard tickets in shoebox somewhere.
Off to seek out a copy Hope and Glory. It had passed me by until now.
Handsworth, what a place.
Handsworth Library, what a place. I still have my set of brown cardboard tickets in shoebox somewhere.
Off to seek out a copy Hope and Glory. It had passed me by until now.
I grew up in Hansworth.
I am going to buy a 2nd copy of Handsworth Revolution (Delux Edition) by Steel Pulse and shove it up Robert Jenrick's arse.
Him a bumbaclaat.
I am going to buy a 2nd copy of Handsworth Revolution (Delux Edition) by Steel Pulse and shove it up Robert Jenrick's arse.
Him a bumbaclaat.
October 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I grew up in Hansworth.
I am going to buy a 2nd copy of Handsworth Revolution (Delux Edition) by Steel Pulse and shove it up Robert Jenrick's arse.
Him a bumbaclaat.
I am going to buy a 2nd copy of Handsworth Revolution (Delux Edition) by Steel Pulse and shove it up Robert Jenrick's arse.
Him a bumbaclaat.
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Trying to concentrate on writing a good 500 words this morning whilst knowing the England v India test match is unfolding nicely...
July 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Trying to concentrate on writing a good 500 words this morning whilst knowing the England v India test match is unfolding nicely...
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Check out the great Noah Gil-Smith, 'a celebrated travel guide author known for his extensive explorations and vivid storytelling.' Surely one of our greatest living writers – he's got 647 books to his name! Don't forget to check in tomorrow though, he'll have added a couple of dozen more...
July 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Check out the great Noah Gil-Smith, 'a celebrated travel guide author known for his extensive explorations and vivid storytelling.' Surely one of our greatest living writers – he's got 647 books to his name! Don't forget to check in tomorrow though, he'll have added a couple of dozen more...
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“KJ Smith” is genAI, right? Dozens of books in a few set formats, all published in 2025? I listened to one and it sounds just like ChatGPT — bland summary, little detail about any of the events mentioned, constantly drifting into corporate mission-statement vocabulary, no thought behind the phrases
July 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
“KJ Smith” is genAI, right? Dozens of books in a few set formats, all published in 2025? I listened to one and it sounds just like ChatGPT — bland summary, little detail about any of the events mentioned, constantly drifting into corporate mission-statement vocabulary, no thought behind the phrases
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
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The Asphalt Path
A couple, through no fault of their own, are thrown off Birmingham’s No 11 Outer Circle bus and resolve to complete the circuit by foot.
In doing so they have the spiritual awakening of spending half the journey walking towards Solihull, and the other half walking away.
A couple, through no fault of their own, are thrown off Birmingham’s No 11 Outer Circle bus and resolve to complete the circuit by foot.
In doing so they have the spiritual awakening of spending half the journey walking towards Solihull, and the other half walking away.
July 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The Asphalt Path
A couple, through no fault of their own, are thrown off Birmingham’s No 11 Outer Circle bus and resolve to complete the circuit by foot.
In doing so they have the spiritual awakening of spending half the journey walking towards Solihull, and the other half walking away.
A couple, through no fault of their own, are thrown off Birmingham’s No 11 Outer Circle bus and resolve to complete the circuit by foot.
In doing so they have the spiritual awakening of spending half the journey walking towards Solihull, and the other half walking away.
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My latest piece in Private Eye on Carlsberg's Fresh Ale fiasco: filtered & carbonated keg served through dummy handpumps. #BskyBeer @camraofficial.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
My latest piece in Private Eye on Carlsberg's Fresh Ale fiasco: filtered & carbonated keg served through dummy handpumps. #BskyBeer @camraofficial.bsky.social
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Fantastic. I only wish it had mentioned language justice and the threat to minority languages. By default, AI models are trained and deployed in English.
This weekend, humanist organisations worldwide — from Barbados to Belgium, from Nigeria to Nepal, and from Malawi to Malaysia — passed the Luxembourg Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values.
Our community's defining global statement on the ethics of AI. humanists.uk/2025/07/10/h...
Our community's defining global statement on the ethics of AI. humanists.uk/2025/07/10/h...
Humanists pass global declaration on AI and human values
Representatives of the global humanist community collectively resolved to pass The Luxembourg Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values at the 2025 general assembly of Humanists Internat...
humanists.uk
July 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Fantastic. I only wish it had mentioned language justice and the threat to minority languages. By default, AI models are trained and deployed in English.
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Some thoughts on the #TheSaltPath scandal, especially for those who write books in that general neighbourhood (the nonfiction ones with the faux-woodcut covers, shelved under "nature" even if they probably shouldn't be). 🧵1/
July 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Some thoughts on the #TheSaltPath scandal, especially for those who write books in that general neighbourhood (the nonfiction ones with the faux-woodcut covers, shelved under "nature" even if they probably shouldn't be). 🧵1/
Someone has folded my GoogleMap and left nasty crease running across it
June 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Someone has folded my GoogleMap and left nasty crease running across it
Oh great #bbcsounds
Soon, if abroad, you soon won't access the state broadcaster the same as you can in UK.
Seems so isolationist.
Soon, if abroad, you soon won't access the state broadcaster the same as you can in UK.
Seems so isolationist.
June 14, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Oh great #bbcsounds
Soon, if abroad, you soon won't access the state broadcaster the same as you can in UK.
Seems so isolationist.
Soon, if abroad, you soon won't access the state broadcaster the same as you can in UK.
Seems so isolationist.
So I went behind the church, as instructed.
June 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
So I went behind the church, as instructed.
Question for any entomophiles out there.
This is my award winning photo of a glow worm I spied in our garden last night. I was delighted. But after a while, it stopped glowing.
Had he copped off, or was he knackered. Or both?
This is my award winning photo of a glow worm I spied in our garden last night. I was delighted. But after a while, it stopped glowing.
Had he copped off, or was he knackered. Or both?
June 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Question for any entomophiles out there.
This is my award winning photo of a glow worm I spied in our garden last night. I was delighted. But after a while, it stopped glowing.
Had he copped off, or was he knackered. Or both?
This is my award winning photo of a glow worm I spied in our garden last night. I was delighted. But after a while, it stopped glowing.
Had he copped off, or was he knackered. Or both?
Took a break from the keyboard and spotted a very drunk lizard slithering past the back door.
June 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Took a break from the keyboard and spotted a very drunk lizard slithering past the back door.
Swallowtail.
Unfotunate road traffic casualty on a road that sees two cars an hour.
It's not going to pull through.
Unfotunate road traffic casualty on a road that sees two cars an hour.
It's not going to pull through.
May 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Swallowtail.
Unfotunate road traffic casualty on a road that sees two cars an hour.
It's not going to pull through.
Unfotunate road traffic casualty on a road that sees two cars an hour.
It's not going to pull through.
Notre Dame de Paris.
Amazing what a bit of Farrow & Ball can do to your vaulting.
Amazing what a bit of Farrow & Ball can do to your vaulting.
April 15, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Notre Dame de Paris.
Amazing what a bit of Farrow & Ball can do to your vaulting.
Amazing what a bit of Farrow & Ball can do to your vaulting.
Taking the sleeper to Paris from the Med. Great value. Opted for 1st class on the (false) premise that other 1st class passenger won't snore.
April 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Taking the sleeper to Paris from the Med. Great value. Opted for 1st class on the (false) premise that other 1st class passenger won't snore.
Superlative
March 18, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Superlative
Unable to get along but sure to be good.
And just a couple of miles from Slad where Laurie Lee set out one morning.
And just a couple of miles from Slad where Laurie Lee set out one morning.
There are still places available for this at the end of March. It's going to be a great week!
Join @joannapocock.bsky.social, Michael Malay and I at the end of March in @hawkwoodcft.bsky.social near Stroud for this immersive five-day writing course! What better way to start the spring?
March 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Unable to get along but sure to be good.
And just a couple of miles from Slad where Laurie Lee set out one morning.
And just a couple of miles from Slad where Laurie Lee set out one morning.
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“As the clever hopes expire,
Of a low dishonest decade…
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again…”
September 1 1939, by W.H. Auden, English poet, born #OTD 1907.
Portrait by Cecil Beaton 1930, National Portrait Gallery London
Of a low dishonest decade…
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again…”
September 1 1939, by W.H. Auden, English poet, born #OTD 1907.
Portrait by Cecil Beaton 1930, National Portrait Gallery London
February 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
“As the clever hopes expire,
Of a low dishonest decade…
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again…”
September 1 1939, by W.H. Auden, English poet, born #OTD 1907.
Portrait by Cecil Beaton 1930, National Portrait Gallery London
Of a low dishonest decade…
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again…”
September 1 1939, by W.H. Auden, English poet, born #OTD 1907.
Portrait by Cecil Beaton 1930, National Portrait Gallery London