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
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davidbradford.substack.com/p/clearing-u...
Private fuck property
December 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Private fuck property
Reposted by David Hinchliffe Bradford
"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.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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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.
www.bbc.co.uk
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 …
www.theguardian.com
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
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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)
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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...
Happy solstice – with special salutations to fellow nyctalopes, we connoisseurs in darkness-loathing ☀️
December 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Happy solstice – with special salutations to fellow nyctalopes, we connoisseurs in darkness-loathing ☀️
The inside story of the Vuelta podium – a car park celebration hastily organised by Tom Pidcock's mum – is the heartwarmer of the year 🎖️
Superbly told by @cmbreports.bsky.social
Superbly told by @cmbreports.bsky.social
Cycling Weekly's review of the year issue is excellent reading. We should cherish and support the print magazines that we still have. Proud to have contributed to this issue. My favourite article is the inside (and comical) story of the Vuelta podium.
Buy here: www.magazine.co.uk/magazines/cy...
Buy here: www.magazine.co.uk/magazines/cy...
December 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The inside story of the Vuelta podium – a car park celebration hastily organised by Tom Pidcock's mum – is the heartwarmer of the year 🎖️
Superbly told by @cmbreports.bsky.social
Superbly told by @cmbreports.bsky.social
Reposted by David Hinchliffe Bradford
110 pages, eight original features, and an interview with Tom Pidcock’s mum (courtesy of @cmbreports.bsky.social) - all for under a fiver. Out today!
December 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
110 pages, eight original features, and an interview with Tom Pidcock’s mum (courtesy of @cmbreports.bsky.social) - all for under a fiver. Out today!
Reposted by David Hinchliffe Bradford
Cycling Weekly's review of the year issue is excellent reading. We should cherish and support the print magazines that we still have. Proud to have contributed to this issue. My favourite article is the inside (and comical) story of the Vuelta podium.
Buy here: www.magazine.co.uk/magazines/cy...
Buy here: www.magazine.co.uk/magazines/cy...
December 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Cycling Weekly's review of the year issue is excellent reading. We should cherish and support the print magazines that we still have. Proud to have contributed to this issue. My favourite article is the inside (and comical) story of the Vuelta podium.
Buy here: www.magazine.co.uk/magazines/cy...
Buy here: www.magazine.co.uk/magazines/cy...
What a net-curtain-twitching frenzy of a front page
December 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
What a net-curtain-twitching frenzy of a front page
This is the most incredible true story, and has me in tears before breakfast! A must-read
Two men meet in the carpark of a Leeds hospital. They sit on a bench and start chatting. One of them has a bomb in their backpack and the other must talk them out of using it. A mindblowing and entirely true story that reads like a thriller. as.ft.com/r/13756c02-0...
‘It’s just a bomb’
[FREE TO READ] The true story of two strangers and an extraordinary act of courage
as.ft.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
This is the most incredible true story, and has me in tears before breakfast! A must-read
Reposted by David Hinchliffe Bradford
A few weeks ago I visited Lizzie Deignan for the final of four feature interviews over 11 years.
Read it in @cyclingweekly.com magazine out today.
Read it in @cyclingweekly.com magazine out today.
December 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A few weeks ago I visited Lizzie Deignan for the final of four feature interviews over 11 years.
Read it in @cyclingweekly.com magazine out today.
Read it in @cyclingweekly.com magazine out today.
December 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Very cheering story on WATO about a visually impaired man able to watch football for the first time thanks to a specially designed headset
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
World at One - Zelensky arrives for Downing St talks - BBC Sounds
Sir Keir Starmer hosts leaders to discuss peace plan.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Very cheering story on WATO about a visually impaired man able to watch football for the first time thanks to a specially designed headset
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Reposted by David Hinchliffe Bradford
I'm sorry to hear that Martin Parr has died. This is good on him and his work...
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I Am Martin Parr
Discover the maverick behind some of the most iconic images of the past century on an intimate and exclusive road trip with a photographer whose work has revolutionised contemporary photography.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I'm sorry to hear that Martin Parr has died. This is good on him and his work...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...