David Hinchliffe Bradford

have fled to where the grass is greener, the sky bluer: | 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸

[David Hinchliffe Bradford @DeeBeeFree]

The year 2000, an unfinished palace, a spruced up bungalow, and whatever remains

My latest Substack thing 👇

https://t.co/8VItAjWLZT

[David Hinchliffe Bradford @DeeBeeFree]

@ConnorH2192 No, me neither, but it seemed a sad turn of events

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

PHOTO OF THE DAY: A US soldier in the Vietnam War. 📷 Horst Fass (1965).

[Helena Horton @horton_official]

Maybe the police should try investigating actual crimes rather than harassing women for eating breadsticks and hummus.

[Karishma @KarishmaPatel99]

I want to make one thing clear. I left @BBCNews last year after covering Gaza for months because I could see evidence accumulating into the robust conclusion that Israel has been committing war crimes & crimes against humanity. 1/4

[David Hinchliffe Bradford @DeeBeeFree]

@DeLonghiUK I have a Delonghi KG40 grinder in which the blades have gone blunt. Am I able to buy a new set, please?

[David Bradford @DeeBeeCW]

Office debate. Should we refer to teams in the singular or the plural?

For example:
Lidl-Trek are sponsored by a supermarket and have some canny riders
or
Lidl-Trek is sponsored by a supermarket and has some canny riders

[Gail McConnell @Gail_McConnell_]

One of many gifts from Michael Longley. One I treasure all the more, now that he has left us. His death is a great loss for poetry, for Belfast, and for literature on these islands and well beyond. He will be greatly missed. (I write at more length on Insta)

[Anton Thompson-McCormick 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @AntonJTMcC]

Maybe it’d be a relief to everyone if we stopped pretending it’s still “Christian” in cases where it’s been utterly co-opted by nationalism, and worse.

Christianity is an attempt to be Christlike. It’s a poem, a largeness of thought; a love of existence, not limited to your own.

[Anton Thompson-McCormick 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @AntonJTMcC]

Stunning, literally. This is what it looks like to take a stand for biblical values.

Thank you, Mariann Edgar Budde. Wow. 🙏🏻

[David Hinchliffe Bradford @DeeBeeFree]

@AntonJTMcC All very well but can thou seeest through thine mess yet?! 🙃😂

[David Hinchliffe Bradford @DeeBeeFree]

@ae_stallings Likewise, I read a few pages - wanting to like it - but found myself scratching around for the will to continue, wondering if the problem lay with me

[David Hinchliffe Bradford @DeeBeeFree]

My top four books read in 2024: a walk around the UK in 1982; late C19th Belgian Congo horrors; wild Edwardian aristos; & what becomes of the ageing homosexual ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Merry Christmas from Palestine 🇵🇸

[David Hinchliffe Bradford @DeeBeeFree]

@eddieizzard @bexhillmuseum @YouTube Thanks so much for supporting the museum, which we're blessed to have – I've only just realised they have masses of information on my Bexhill great-grandfather whom I knew almost nothing about!

https://t.co/AWmJ9ibnBF

[David Hinchliffe Bradford @DeeBeeFree]

I wonder if @simonmontefiore would mind clarifying whether he considers Ireland's opposition to ongoing Israeli war crimes to be part of what he regards as its being "weirdly, unreasonably anti-Israel". Can't imagine he'd want to be ambiguous on this matter

[Anton Thompson-McCormick 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @AntonJTMcC]

“….What have I to leave you but the ruins of old courage, and the lore of old gallantry and hope?”

Happy 81st birthday, Marilynne Robinson. Every solstice, I return to a 6 min clip of her reading from the end of ‘Gilead’ and I swear I can feel the world turning.

[MSF UK @MSF_uk]

MSF is outraged after an Israeli drone strike almost hit five of our Palestinian and international staff on their way home from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

As always, the Israeli authorities were notified about our movements and the vehicle was identifiable with an MSF logo.

[David Hinchliffe Bradford @DeeBeeFree]

@piercepenniless BlueSky is Paradise Regained, James, do come on over!