David Hinchliffe Bradford
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Senior editor (print) Cycling Weekly Curricular and extracurricular work here: dbfreelance.co.uk Unruly eyes: tinyurl.com/BitBlind 📍Lewes, UK | 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈
A terrible day for trans people in Britain and a shameful one for the EHRC and government
Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 9h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
Extraordinary how little attention has been paid to this: "Letby took out a grievance against the consultants... [who] were found to have bullied her... HR actions against the consultants were due to begin on the day they took their concerns to Cheshire Police"
Prospect Magazine@prospectmagazine.co.uk · 5d agoLucy Letby was “marked out as a scapegoat only by her tendency to report all accidents and mistakes,” writes Kate Clanchy
Last night at the massive Nick Cave gig in Preston Park, the main bars were serving no pints, only tiny cans for £6.80 each. If you bought several, they'd open them all - just to be extra mean?! A new level of contempt for the captive market!
Why didn't the nihilistic lunatics just go all-in with: BURNHAM ADMITS OIL DRILLING CAN HELP BURN EUROPHILES OUT OF THEIR HOMES
This was quite interesting, I thought. More of this type of thing please @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson
Decadence in our era comes in technologically mediated forms, emptied of desire and obsessed with self-optimisation
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Fascinating piece of cycling history from Angela: the Anglo-French stage race, now all but forgotten, that was organised by her great-uncle – at great personal cost
Angela Mills-Bannon@genkigalcycling.bsky.social · 6d agoDelighted to share some of my great uncle Bill’s story in this article for Cycling Weekly. 🙏🏼 @cycologies.com for the lead-out! And to @dbfreelance.co.uk for the opportunity www.cyclingweekly.com/news/think-n...
No doubt a terribly twisted response but I *really* want an episode of 24hr in Police Custody about this case! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Teenage Norwegian 'hitman' guilty of UK murder plot
Johannes Natland travelled to Huddersfield to carry out a 'hit' in March last year.
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Adolescence was alright, but come on people, Netflix is 99% dross!
What's your sign? (reverse side of a 'keep dogs on leads' sign)
David Thomas@thesounddesigner.bsky.social · last wk.What’s your sign?
Haven't the foggiest if Burnham can or will actually achieve anything, but I think we're all entitled to a MASSIVE sigh of relief at finally having a PM who can express himself and seems to believe in things www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Newscast - The Andy Burnham Interview - BBC Sounds
Listen to Laura K's full interview with Andy Burnham.
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All power to the Today prog guest criticising his host's parroting of IDF lies. "You wouldn't repeat Russian propaganda" BBC should be called out for this relentlessly
How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon? Paul Bowles
Hilariously grouchy review of Hamnet by AN Wilson substack.com/@anwilson/no...
HAMNET
Thoughts in the cinema about Mrs Shakespeare and others
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Had an anxiety dream about volunteering to perform Falls to Climb at a karaoke night, then promptly losing my nerve "A punch toy volunteer/A weakling on its knee" indeed! open.spotify.com/track/2jBrtj...
Falls To Climb
R.E.M. · Up · Song · 1998
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“The Alpe d’Huez stage almost wrecked his career.” Tom Pidcock has had a fraught past with the Tour de France. I asked both him and his close circle about his main goal this year: to find joy in the race again www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/tour-...
'Anything's possible' – how Tom Pidcock is rediscovering his love for the Tour de France
For Tom Pidcock, this year's Tour was never about fighting for the GC or proving his talent – it's about restoring his childhood passion for the race
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"It's probably clear by now that literature has nothing to do with national prizes and everything to do with a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears" Roberto Bolaño
Shan't get involved in the banner discourse, except to say the @lrb.co.uk has a very good podcast about the Falklands www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
The Belgrano Diary
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Quick Step to Safety Jogger – a team name masterclass in 'don't run before you can walk'
Chrissy Marshall-Bell@cmbreports.bsky.social · 3w agoPretty sizeable news, this: Quick-Step to no longer be a title sponsor of Belgium's most successful cycling team. Safety Jogger to step up in 2027 as team becomes Soudal - Safety Jogger. More details here: www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/tour-...
Nice to think mine might finally get their asses in gear once I'm dead share.google/moafqKdzesOW...
Resuscitated human retinas respond to light 10 hours after death
Perfusing donor human retinas with blood and oxygen meant they continued to respond to light for up to 10 hours after death, marking a significant step towards eye transplants that restore vision
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Living in a powder keg and giving off sparks forever – RIP Bonnie T ✨
*Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist* allpoetry.com/Bishop-Bloug...
Bishop Blougram's Apology by Robert Browning - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry
Comments & analysis: NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. / A final glass for me, though: cool,
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Can only imagine the hype that will be generated when I make my comeback, aged 44, to the King's Head Canter 5k www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...
Serena Williams poised to make sensational tennis comeback aged 44 at Queen’s
Serena Williams is considering a return to elite tennis on the grass courts of Queen’s Club in London in 10 days’ time
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Quite the David Hockney tribute from Cofidis rider Alex Aranburu – from the latest issue of Cycling Weekly
Burnham should be hurling his Blairite proclivities into the ocean in a weighted bag. Instead...
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · last mo.Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff. In earlier incarnation, he supported the Iraq invasion; was chairman of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants. What next?
