A little ditty
In the winter, Wrap up warm.
Raise your hands and dance till dawn.
Up amongst the woods and heather,
Party people dance… Together
Lex, Leicester
In the winter, Wrap up warm.
Raise your hands and dance till dawn.
Up amongst the woods and heather,
Party people dance… Together
Lex, Leicester
2/ Camel Caravan.
Afghan/Pakistan Border. Afghanistan. 1981.
© Steve @McCurryStudios / Magnum Photos
very happy to be included in the #Photography #book with so many great artist and photographers. Photography starts at home’: the story of postwar Britain – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/jul/07/photography-starts-at-home-the-story-of-postwar-britain-in-pictures-another-country?CMP=share_btn_tw
love this #photography... Looks like #BorisJohnson in full control... A knight in shining armour plummets off a pier: Dod Miller’s best photograph https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jul/06/dod-miller-best-photograph-birdman-west-sussex-helium?CMP=share_btn_tw
He's going. But this isn't the end.
Whoever replaces him will pretend that everything has changed.
But the Tory Party is rotten to the core. It only governs in the interests of the super-rich, not the rest of us.
We need a general election. We need them out.
Boris Johnson to resign as Conservative leader https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/07/boris-johnson-to-resign-as-conservative-leader?CMP=twt_gu&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium#Echobox=1657182755
Georgia monument dubbed ‘America’s Stonehenge’ damaged by explosives https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/06/georgia-monument-guidestones-americas-stonehenge-bombed?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1657149080
Clownfall https://youtu.be/KUt5Kmv0qO4 via @YouTube
On 12 May 2022, the controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 came into force
In our latest blog, we look at what the Act has been implemented to achieve, and the chilling effects it could have on rights to protest and freedom of speech: http://bit.ly/3tRqnwK
'Specialist subject: things Boris Johnson was unaware of between March and June 2022'
My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph
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Climate protesters glue themselves to National Gallery artwork https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/04/climate-protesters-glue-themselves-to-national-gallery-artwork?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco
A Slideshow 60mins. 400pics Festivals, Travellers, Stonehenge, Glastonbury, Free Party, Policemen and ........ >> https://youtu.be/ehsPTpSVzhQ
Original Upsetter investigation here:
https://theupsetterstrikes.substack.com/p/datadebase
And also with @Fhamiltontimes
Lies, spies and dirty tricks: the truth about Britain’s undercover police https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/03/lies-spies-and-dirty-tricks-the-truth-about-britains-undercover-police?CMP=share_btn_tw
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/03/lies-spies-and-dirty-tricks-the-truth-about-britains-undercover-police FYI: @AliceOKeeffe Suffragettes were spied upon. Also important to have a balanced view on how effective #spycops were.
Tory contempt for the arts means we face a second dark age | Stewart Lee http://d.gu.com/STGQtL
I am a photographer with a special interest to document the lives of travelling people and those attending Festivals, Stonehenge etc, what the press often describe as ‘New Age Travellers’ and many social concerns.
With my photography, I have tried to say something of the wide variety of people engaged in ‘Alternatives’, and youths’ many sub-cultures and to present a more positive view.
I have photographed many free and commercial events and have, in recent years, extended my work to include dance parties (’rave culture’), gay-rights events, environmental direct actions, and protest against the Criminal Justice Act and more recently, issues surrounding the Global Capitalism.
Further, police surveillance has recently become a very important subject for me!
In recognition of this work, received a ‘Winston’ from Privacy International, at the 1998 ‘Big Brother’ Awards. The citation reads: “Alan Lodge is a photographer who has spent more than a decade raising awareness of front-line police surveillance activities, particularly the endemic practice of photographing demonstrators and activists”.
I am based in Nottingham, UK.
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!!”
Harry Lime [Orsen Wells] The Third Man 1949
“Civilization will not attain to its perfection, until the last stone from the last church, falls on the last priest.”
Emile Zola
“….I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world.
If you’re out there and you’re not cute, maybe you’re beautiful, I just want to tell you somethin’- there’s more of us ugly mother-fuckers than you are, hey-y, so watch out now…”
Frank Zappa