An English winter - missing colour and the sun's warmth. To remedy, an unpublished image from the Indian Coffee House in Jaipur - an out-take from my 2016 book, The Palaces of Memory-Tales from the Indian Coffee House.
UK's David Lammy blasted for saying 'there are no journalists in Gaza' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-david-lammy-blasted-claiming-no-journalists-gaza
Renewed crackdown on free speech aims to overwhelm US student protests - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/massive-crackdown-free-speech-threatens-overwhelm-us-student-protests
Important and with an irresistible energy - As we rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic still on at the Saatchi Gallery.
The NHS was built in 1948 when the country was broke after WW2. This government could invest properly in the health of the nation- it’s a question of political choice.
Politicians should resign for lying? Over to you, Keir
Another day another Israeli atrocity that went virtually unreported in the 'civilised' West: at least 42 people killed in Israeli attacks as bombing intensifies and tanks advance into areas of the territory’s north and south. www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...
If Scotti’s are still open, I’ll be there…
The sun shining on the righteous… and me in my Beloved Scotti’s in Clerkenwell
British workplaces rank among the worst in Europe for long hours, tight deadlines and limited autonomy, without being any more productive, according to a report prepared as the new Labour government plans tougher rules for employers reut.rs/3Zi79R7
tory love letter in full
"When you grow up in a world that tells you that you have to fight to survive, the more you’re struggling to survive, the harder you’re going to fight."
My piece on how competitive individualism and economic insecurity combined to foment race riots in the UK tribunemag.co.uk/2024/11/the-...
If you oppose NHS privatisation, please could you repost this and follow me? I need to know who to follow next (it’ll be you!) 🌟🌟🌟
Yesterday to the magnificent Letizia Battaglia exhibition at The Photographers Gallery. Of course she had balls of steel around Palermo’s blood-letting but the quiet images equally touching and human.
👉NEW -- UK sees privatisation 'opportunities' in Ukraine war
by @markcurtis30.bsky.social
British aid is being used to open up Ukraine’s wrecked economy to foreign investors and enhance trade with the UK.
www.declassifieduk.org/uk-sees-priv...
One of most beautiful posters in Catalan from the Spanish Civil War. "Peasant!: the revolution needs your efforts." Socialist UGT trade union. By Josep Subirats
You won’t find out about the UK’s support of Israel in the national media. There’s a media blackout.
👉 Go to our website -- declassifieduk.org
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Don't remember Beth Rigby framing questions in this way when the Tories froze wages and benefits, introduced the bedroom tax, tripled tuition fees, and curbed workers' rights.
It snowed here today in the UK for the first time this winter.
I hate snow.
Here's a picture of snow from a reportage I made a thousand years ago on the legacy of the writer and mystic, Kahlil Gibran in Bcharre, Northern Lebanon.
Good morning , here's your #FoxOfTheDay , shared by @kizbang on Instagram
Gotta love those double standards
What Kathy said.
I am very expensive but worth every penny 😉
Well, you could always split the entrance fee and wait for her inside... ; )
Press pass = no queue - as most institutions in Europe.
Recently in Paris to see Caillebotte’s Peindre les hommes at Musée d’Orsay. Always intrigued by Le Pont de l’Europe 1877. Thoroughly modern breaking numerous compositional notions that photography inherited. Despite modernist motifs, feels almost postmodern - a bit of a decisive ‘indecisive’ moment…
Screenshot of the academic journal Visual Culture in Britain's page on Bluesky.
Welcome @vcib.bsky.social to 🦋!
I am so excited to be one of the new editors-in-chief. The journal is relaunching later this year and we're now accepting articles and reviews for publication in 2025. More info here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...
By far the best exposition of the nexus between the car, the Right and fossil capital - salvage.zone/the-great-dr... from the excellent
@zetkincollective.bsky.social via Salvage Magazine
