Jon Bradfield
@jonbradfield.bsky.social
London. 🏳️🌈 Mainly I write things. Enjoy theatre, art, country walks and choral singing. Co-founder of big gay pantomime makers www.hesbehindyou.com
Don't remember seeing this Ravilious before. Back Gardens, 1935. Love the viewpoint and composition and the delicious English dampness.
September 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Don't remember seeing this Ravilious before. Back Gardens, 1935. Love the viewpoint and composition and the delicious English dampness.
Occasionally I wonder whether Jeremy Irons is relieved that, 11 years after gay marriages were introduced, his fear that fathers might marry their sons to avoid paying inheritance tax has largely proved unwarranted.
September 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Occasionally I wonder whether Jeremy Irons is relieved that, 11 years after gay marriages were introduced, his fear that fathers might marry their sons to avoid paying inheritance tax has largely proved unwarranted.
Just a few minutes stroll from home - thrilling music from the insultingly young George Johnson Quartet with good cheap vegan food. At the new-to-me-but-not-new Karamel N22.
September 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Just a few minutes stroll from home - thrilling music from the insultingly young George Johnson Quartet with good cheap vegan food. At the new-to-me-but-not-new Karamel N22.
How boring, tedious, conservative a person do you have to be to point and laugh at someone wearing makeup in the year 2025. I thought the terf position was do what you like just not in single sex spaces. Not conform everywhere. Doesn't make you want to delve into his writing does it.
OOF. So per John Boyne, it's acceptable to mock a teenaged girl for wearing makeup to a sporting event because she's trans there for "really" a boy & it's acceptable to mock a boy for that?
When TERFs claim to be inclusive of gender nonconformity, they are lying.
When TERFs claim to be inclusive of gender nonconformity, they are lying.
September 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
How boring, tedious, conservative a person do you have to be to point and laugh at someone wearing makeup in the year 2025. I thought the terf position was do what you like just not in single sex spaces. Not conform everywhere. Doesn't make you want to delve into his writing does it.
As hotel management in passive aggressive war with each other, or as terrifying partners in life and in business.
September 5, 2025 at 5:34 AM
As hotel management in passive aggressive war with each other, or as terrifying partners in life and in business.
She came from Greenock she had a thirst for porridge
August 15, 2025 at 7:54 AM
She came from Greenock she had a thirst for porridge
Reposted by Jon Bradfield
Oooh look, an article explaining the trashing of gay rights... by a straight guy.
Thank God for the straight white men tbh, how the hell would we know what to think without them?
(Read it if you want to, but it's nothing we've not read a thousand times before)
Thank God for the straight white men tbh, how the hell would we know what to think without them?
(Read it if you want to, but it's nothing we've not read a thousand times before)
August 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Oooh look, an article explaining the trashing of gay rights... by a straight guy.
Thank God for the straight white men tbh, how the hell would we know what to think without them?
(Read it if you want to, but it's nothing we've not read a thousand times before)
Thank God for the straight white men tbh, how the hell would we know what to think without them?
(Read it if you want to, but it's nothing we've not read a thousand times before)
Country churches and city pubs are two of the loveliest, most special things in our nation. Aspirational communal architecture anyone can walk into. This is an appreciation post for country churches and city pubs.
August 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Country churches and city pubs are two of the loveliest, most special things in our nation. Aspirational communal architecture anyone can walk into. This is an appreciation post for country churches and city pubs.
This is utterly mad. Yvette Cooper needs to come out and say what she means by "Many people may not yet know the reality of [Palestine Action]" because you can't lock people up for objecting to them being proscribed terrorists if you won't say why.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London
Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police
www.theguardian.com
August 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This is utterly mad. Yvette Cooper needs to come out and say what she means by "Many people may not yet know the reality of [Palestine Action]" because you can't lock people up for objecting to them being proscribed terrorists if you won't say why.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Apparently I took this 20 years ago. Piccadilly Line. Felt like something you weren't meant to have seen.
August 9, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Apparently I took this 20 years ago. Piccadilly Line. Felt like something you weren't meant to have seen.
They should make a variety of tomato that has segments like a satsuma so you can put it in salads without the juice going everywhere
July 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
They should make a variety of tomato that has segments like a satsuma so you can put it in salads without the juice going everywhere
£1.3m is astonishingly low for someone who spent 17 years in prison, a cap that applies to anyone who lost over a decade of their life to jail after a wrongful conviction.
Shameful. Again. BBC News - Higher cap for payouts to wrongly jailed is insulting, says Malkinson
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Higher cap for payouts to wrongly jailed is insulting, says Andrew Malkinson
Campaigners welcome the uplift, but argue it still "falls far short of matching inflation".
www.bbc.com
July 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
£1.3m is astonishingly low for someone who spent 17 years in prison, a cap that applies to anyone who lost over a decade of their life to jail after a wrongful conviction.
Reposted by Jon Bradfield
I was very surprised to be put on your list.
July 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I was very surprised to be put on your list.
Enjoy the sun today, don't spend it all indoors
July 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Enjoy the sun today, don't spend it all indoors
Probably my favourite single of the last two years. I'm not even into Wolf Alice but absolute banger youtu.be/lBGcloF8LIY?...
Wolf Alice - Bloom Baby Bloom (Official Video)
YouTube video by WolfAliceVEVO
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July 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Probably my favourite single of the last two years. I'm not even into Wolf Alice but absolute banger youtu.be/lBGcloF8LIY?...
What the fuck is going on here are they trying to stop each other from taking off?
July 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
What the fuck is going on here are they trying to stop each other from taking off?
To be fair to Raynor Winn (not that writing under a different name is in itself dodgy), Moth is a totally legit if unusual shortening of Timothy and I said "oh yeah, doh!" out loud when I read that.
July 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
To be fair to Raynor Winn (not that writing under a different name is in itself dodgy), Moth is a totally legit if unusual shortening of Timothy and I said "oh yeah, doh!" out loud when I read that.
Quite liking all the hastily written think pieces but no, the main reason people believed The Salt Path was true was, quite reasonably, because a reputable publisher told them it was.
July 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Quite liking all the hastily written think pieces but no, the main reason people believed The Salt Path was true was, quite reasonably, because a reputable publisher told them it was.
Have we totally lost the ability to understand context and rhetoric? Obviously it's not going to be a genuine call to bomb Glastonbury any more than a punk musician shouting death to the IDF on a Somerset farm is any danger to said foreign army.
A genuine call to kill people.
Not to end an organisation.
It's clear they're pushing to see if he can get away with this.
Unlike Bob Vylan, Rod Liddle is doing exactly what Lucy Connolly did and should face the same consequences.
Not to end an organisation.
It's clear they're pushing to see if he can get away with this.
Unlike Bob Vylan, Rod Liddle is doing exactly what Lucy Connolly did and should face the same consequences.
July 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Have we totally lost the ability to understand context and rhetoric? Obviously it's not going to be a genuine call to bomb Glastonbury any more than a punk musician shouting death to the IDF on a Somerset farm is any danger to said foreign army.
The Inspector Sands things is odd, isn't it. "We need a secret code phrase that's used widely enough that it will unnerve a sizeable minority of people so that panic can spread slowly"
July 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The Inspector Sands things is odd, isn't it. "We need a secret code phrase that's used widely enough that it will unnerve a sizeable minority of people so that panic can spread slowly"
Gosh Olivia Rodrigo and Robert Smith dueting on those Cure songs are just sublime what a lovely moment #Glastonbury2025 #Glastonbury
June 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Gosh Olivia Rodrigo and Robert Smith dueting on those Cure songs are just sublime what a lovely moment #Glastonbury2025 #Glastonbury
Sure, Glastonbury is a huge swathe of gigs by major current, upcoming and legacy artists, uniquely and deftly captured by the BBC for us all, but TWO artists said extreme things without having the excuse of being an Israeli government minister so the whole endeavour MUST stop.
June 30, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Sure, Glastonbury is a huge swathe of gigs by major current, upcoming and legacy artists, uniquely and deftly captured by the BBC for us all, but TWO artists said extreme things without having the excuse of being an Israeli government minister so the whole endeavour MUST stop.
"The acting, the wall art..."
June 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"The acting, the wall art..."
Because I'm eating cheese
June 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Because I'm eating cheese
