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
davidbradford.substack.com
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...
Found it hard to believe a runner as successful as GHB did the majority of her training on the bike – so we sent @t-davidson.bsky.social to meet her 🚴🏃♀️
I was very surprised to hear Olympic runner Georgia Hunter Bell does so much of her training on the bike, so I met up with her in a south London cafe and asked her all about it
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www.cyclingweekly.com/fitness/it-w...
'It will be a part of my plan forever' – How cycling 100 miles a week is helping this Olympic runner win medals
Baffled by a rumour that Georgia Hunter Bell does most of her training by bike, Tom Davidson investigates just how well running and cycling can complement each other
www.cyclingweekly.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Found it hard to believe a runner as successful as GHB did the majority of her training on the bike – so we sent @t-davidson.bsky.social to meet her 🚴🏃♀️
Dear BBC, please follow suit
Well done @rte.ie!
"Ireland will not participate in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast by RTÉ, after the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part."
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
"Ireland will not participate in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast by RTÉ, after the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part."
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
RTÉ to boycott Eurovision Song Contest over Israel
Ireland will not participate in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast by RTÉ, after the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part...
www.rte.ie
December 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Dear BBC, please follow suit
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Our awards special edition of @cyclingweekly.com magazine is out today 🏆
I had the pleasure of interviewing our male Rider of the Year, Matthew Brennan, and our Rising Star, Erin Boothman
I had the pleasure of interviewing our male Rider of the Year, Matthew Brennan, and our Rising Star, Erin Boothman
December 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Our awards special edition of @cyclingweekly.com magazine is out today 🏆
I had the pleasure of interviewing our male Rider of the Year, Matthew Brennan, and our Rising Star, Erin Boothman
I had the pleasure of interviewing our male Rider of the Year, Matthew Brennan, and our Rising Star, Erin Boothman
Just the concept - a parody New Yorker profile - is brilliant. But the execution also very funny
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open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Jonathan Gullis, The Seagull's Lament
A New Yorker Profile
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Just the concept - a parody New Yorker profile - is brilliant. But the execution also very funny
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
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Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
Joe Brainard advent day 2:
*I remember being disappointed the first time I got my teeth cleaned that they didn't turn out real white."
*I remember being disappointed the first time I got my teeth cleaned that they didn't turn out real white."
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Joe Brainard advent day 2:
*I remember being disappointed the first time I got my teeth cleaned that they didn't turn out real white."
*I remember being disappointed the first time I got my teeth cleaned that they didn't turn out real white."
Reposted by David Hinchliffe Bradford
Pedal pumped to have From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads featured in this week's @cyclingweekly.com Christmas gift guide. Perfect for that Bowie, cycling, Percy Pig and midlife crisis fan in your life...
#DavidBowie #Cycling #Christmasgifts @dbfreelance.co.uk
#DavidBowie #Cycling #Christmasgifts @dbfreelance.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Pedal pumped to have From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads featured in this week's @cyclingweekly.com Christmas gift guide. Perfect for that Bowie, cycling, Percy Pig and midlife crisis fan in your life...
#DavidBowie #Cycling #Christmasgifts @dbfreelance.co.uk
#DavidBowie #Cycling #Christmasgifts @dbfreelance.co.uk
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🚨BREAKING: Greenpeace Luxembourg activists have delivered a message to Amazon on their European headquarters.
Activists are exposing Amazon’s tax avoidance AND their reported provision of crucial cloud computing services and data storage to Netanyahu’s government and the Israeli Defense Forces 😡
Activists are exposing Amazon’s tax avoidance AND their reported provision of crucial cloud computing services and data storage to Netanyahu’s government and the Israeli Defense Forces 😡
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🚨BREAKING: Greenpeace Luxembourg activists have delivered a message to Amazon on their European headquarters.
Activists are exposing Amazon’s tax avoidance AND their reported provision of crucial cloud computing services and data storage to Netanyahu’s government and the Israeli Defense Forces 😡
Activists are exposing Amazon’s tax avoidance AND their reported provision of crucial cloud computing services and data storage to Netanyahu’s government and the Israeli Defense Forces 😡
Denton Welch explains the John Lewis ad:
"I thought of all the Christmases of my childhood the sheer delight in presents, food and festive decorations. Surely no one could hate Christmas who remembered this past joyfulness!... 1/2
"I thought of all the Christmases of my childhood the sheer delight in presents, food and festive decorations. Surely no one could hate Christmas who remembered this past joyfulness!... 1/2
November 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Denton Welch explains the John Lewis ad:
"I thought of all the Christmases of my childhood the sheer delight in presents, food and festive decorations. Surely no one could hate Christmas who remembered this past joyfulness!... 1/2
"I thought of all the Christmases of my childhood the sheer delight in presents, food and festive decorations. Surely no one could hate Christmas who remembered this past joyfulness!... 1/2
Anyone celebrating my second cousin 12x removed Will and his crew for having pestered the locals for far more than their allotted cup of sugar, thank you for your courtesy, but we find him rather an embarrassment
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Anyone celebrating my second cousin 12x removed Will and his crew for having pestered the locals for far more than their allotted cup of sugar, thank you for your courtesy, but we find him rather an embarrassment
Sympathies with colleagues on Prime Day duty
Envious curses to the lucky few tittering behind their paywalls 😂
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Envious curses to the lucky few tittering behind their paywalls 😂
escapecollective.com/wont-someone...
Won't someone think of the human toll of Amazon Prime Day?
A glimpse behind the curtains of ecommerce on this, Jeff Bezos' most sacred day.
escapecollective.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Sympathies with colleagues on Prime Day duty
Envious curses to the lucky few tittering behind their paywalls 😂
escapecollective.com/wont-someone...
Envious curses to the lucky few tittering behind their paywalls 😂
escapecollective.com/wont-someone...
I go thru phases of finding the LRB a bit too po-faced and lofty, but then a piece like this comes along and reaffirms my devotion 🙏
Superb writing, as ever, by @jamesmeek.bsky.social
Superb writing, as ever, by @jamesmeek.bsky.social
‘The wind turbine and the Catapult building advertise Blyth’s centrality to the carbon-free economy of the future. They advertise it, but I don’t quite believe it, and neither, judging by the local popularity of Reform, does Blyth.’
James Meek in the new issue:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Meek in the new issue:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Meek · Ten-Foot Chopsticks: The North-East Transition
The ghost of the industrial revolution haunts Britain. The language of today’s politicians, of unlocking and...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I go thru phases of finding the LRB a bit too po-faced and lofty, but then a piece like this comes along and reaffirms my devotion 🙏
Superb writing, as ever, by @jamesmeek.bsky.social
Superb writing, as ever, by @jamesmeek.bsky.social
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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...