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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

There are plenty of people in my "dating pool" (is that really what you call gay men?) that i don't want to date. I think you should probably just grow a backbone if you're that affected by couple of extreme voices. The issue is in your head.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Break that down. "Our lives"? How is someone transitioning buying "our lives"? They're not, they're living their life. How does it impact you or me if someone else lives their life and tries to fit into society's structures in a way that's more comfortable for them?

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Because I don't think it's true. I go to gay bars, clubs, even saunas occasionally and it's just not true. What people fought for was the right to love or sleep with who you want and we have that. Nobody is forcing you to fancy anyone you don't.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I am a gay man. Most of my friends are gay men. I don't hate gay men.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

It would be a really niche thing to make up!

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Don't remember seeing this Ravilious before. Back Gardens, 1935. Love the viewpoint and composition and the delicious English dampness.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

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.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

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.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

As hotel management in passive aggressive war with each other, or as terrifying partners in life and in business.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

She came from Greenock she had a thirst for porridge

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Ah! Yes I love a museum, but I don't think they have a particularly British/English character, each is a very different thing, and the charms of rural churches and city pubs include that they are in every village/on every city block, to pop into for half an hour.

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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

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)

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

It's like the M&S thing: It's not enough that one customer was uncomfortable, complained and hence was politely offered bespoke assistance. No, M&S must change its policies in case someone else endures the trauma of being spoken to, briefly, in public, by someone who might be trans.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Where's the accountability? The scrutiny? "Trust me" yeah no sorry if there are things you can't say, cope with people peacefully objecting. What an insane waste of resources. What bonkers priorities.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

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...

theguardian.com

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

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I've seen this twice in my life and if I remember right yes it was late but not absolutely end of night late

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Apparently I took this 20 years ago. Piccadilly Line. Felt like something you weren't meant to have seen.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I'm all for playing around with stuff but yeah my eyes really rolled when I saw this casting announcement, for the reasons you give and also for the off-the-peg obviousness of it. Side-note: years ago at Birmingham Rep I saw Bette Bourne in Present Laughter, in drag, and he was fab.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

But the publisher seems to have lasted a decent while, because you see older illustrations and then very clearly 80s ones in the same sort of format.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The Scottish one (which is what started me hunting/collecting them has 1964 copyright but I think bought/written a couple of decades later. The cottage one looks 50s style but I suspect more like an 80s reprint (it hasn't arrived from the guy I'm buying it from yet).

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Found this saucy postcard among some vintage theatre programmes I bought off Ebay from a woman who was clearing out her late brother's flat. Unstamped, but addressed to a Clive in Earls Court: "Thanks for an unexpectedly memorable weekend." Perhaps he forgot to post it, or changed his mind.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

But yes absolutely. No system is perfect. Occasionally the wrong people will be convicted. So proper recompense must be built into that.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I don't know the rationale beyond the amounts but it feels like it's built on some crudely monetary idea of loss of potential earnings (hence the until very recently practice of deducting living expenses) rather than accounting for the hugely damaging broader deprivation and impact.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

£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.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I was very surprised to be put on your list.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Enjoy the sun today, don't spend it all indoors

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Probably my favourite single of the last two years. I'm not even into Wolf Alice but absolute banger youtu.be/lBGcloF8LIY?...

youtu.be

Wolf Alice - Bloom Baby Bloom (Official Video)

YouTube video by WolfAliceVEVO

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Are they both trying to signify they're tops?

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

What the fuck is going on here are they trying to stop each other from taking off?

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

(I am unhealthily obsessed with the salt path story)

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

yes, though the outrage isn't really at BV and more at the BBC and that's a whole extra level of batshit complication to this...

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

My post obviously suggests that neither should be. Liddle's a prick. I don't think he should be arrested for being a prick. (Unless the article actively, earnestly and literally is arguing for the bombing of a festival, in a way likely to make that happen, in which case fair enough)

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Which i acknowledge in my tweet

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Without commenting on either - and, y'know, I haven't read this cos, incredibly, I don't subscribe to the Spectator), neither is the same as Lucy Connelly - people literally were attacking hotels housing asylum applicants.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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"

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Gosh Olivia Rodrigo and Robert Smith dueting on those Cure songs are just sublime what a lovely moment #Glastonbury2025 #Glastonbury

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I'm not an expert so could be wrong but I think it's swifts that I see doing loops in the air from my balcony in north London. Definitely forked tails.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Still, the Glastonbury crowd looked refreshly British compared to our no-go city centres, even if the Gazan babies they're obsessed with would throw most of them off buildings, & it was amazing to see Rod Stewart - lad. But I'm stopping my licence fee as soon as Wimbledon's over.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I remain absolutely PRO FREE SPEECH but I don't think you should be able to just incite violence or use pronouns in your bio or go about having surnames like XCX. Is that a drugs thing? I know that makes me a radical these days, but the Telegraph agrees.

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Jon Bradfield @jonbradfield.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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.

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