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- The Crime and Policing Bill progress, now passed! 16 April 2026
- Proposed new police powers ‘a draconian threat to the right to protest’ 16 April 2026
- Bass 16 April 2026
- Base44 AI App creation 15 April 2026
- Ian McKellen performs speech about immigrants by Shakespeare from Thomas More 15 April 2026
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- Interview with Stewart Lee for BBC Radio 4 : Artworks What Happened to Counter-Culture? 12 April 2026
- Nottingham 30min Timeshift Walk 11 April 2026
- Messing with a cinematic set at 2.35:1 11 April 2026
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- UnofPhotoA Photographic Life-413: ‘The Most Influential Photographer In the World and Keeping It Real!’ 10 April 2026
- Nottingham Market Square, in a wider angle 10 April 2026
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An ongoing diary of stuff, allsorts, and things wot happen ……
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.
Quotes & Thoughts
“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
Tag Archives: law
Stripping Away Our Right To Dissent : Netpol
May 2, 2023 This article first appeared in the Summer 2023 edition of Freedom Nothing quite illustrates how a spark can seem to catch and then fail to reignite more than these two grim facts. Firstly, there are young people in … Continue reading
PCs to get urgent journalist awareness training after M25 arrests
by David Sharman Published 24 Nov 2022 Police officers are to be given journalist awareness training as a matter of urgency following the M25 arrests controversy. Hertfordshire Constabulary has confirmed it will undertake a review to ensure that any Public Order Public … Continue reading
Does the Media Report Climate Protests Responsibly?
BBC The Media ShowDoes the Media Report Climate Protests Responsibly?How should journalists cover climate protests? The climate conference Cop27 ends this week. But you might have seen more about the activists who threw oil on a Gustav Klimt painting in … Continue reading
NUJ welcomes review findings into journalists’ arrests at Just Stop Oil protests
23 Nov 2022 An independent review following arrests by Hertfordshire constabulary has outlined police powers were not used appropriately. The report by Cambridgeshire constabulary was requested by Hertfordshire chief constable Charlie Hall, following intervention from the NUJ and widespread public … Continue reading
NUJ signs joint letter to Home Secretary after police arrests of journalists
12 Nov 2022 Ten organisations have highlighted the chilling effect of arrests on freedom of expression and urged Suella Braverman to reconsider plans under the Public Order Bill. Following the wrongful arrests of three journalists for “suspicion of conspiracy to … Continue reading
Halcyon days at an ’80s Summer Solstice Festival, Huck Magazine
Halcyon days at an ’80s Summer Solstice Festival The wild bunch Photographer Alan Lodge remembers shooting the mini utopia that was the Stonehenge Free Festival, an event held in the fields surrounding the legendary prehistoric monument. The Free Festival Movement … Continue reading
Democracy shrivels in silence. We must protect our right to protest.
Guest blog by Tom Wainwright, barrister at Garden Court Chambers It is no exaggeration to say that the last fortnight has been one of the worst for freedom of expression, for the right to protest and for civil liberties in … Continue reading
The shiny new Public Order Bill
ok, don’t know how to do this ….! since this group is to do with the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act. HOWEVER, everything they couldn’t get into that, they are now starting again. So, I introduce to you the … Continue reading
Email with Marc Willers QC. The Act is now law
Marc Willers QCmarcw@gclaw.co.uk Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill / Act Hello I have been involved in various campaigns against the “Police, Crime,Sentencing and Courts Bill” Now an act, we lost so there it is! Now I am unsure if … Continue reading
The Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 is now law
The Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 is now law and anyone intending to reside in a vehicle can face 3 months in prison , a £2500 fine and have their vehicle destroyed .It’s aimed at Gypsies and Travellers … Continue reading
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill has now has received Royal Assent
On 28th April, the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill received Royal Assent. Thousands of us took to the streets to resist this draconian legislation. But the battle against the bill was never going to be won in parliament, and … Continue reading
FREE TO PROTEST: THE PROTESTOR’S GUIDE TO POLICE SURVEILLANCE AND HOW TO AVOID IT
FREE TO PROTEST: THE PROTESTOR’S GUIDE TO POLICE SURVEILLANCE ANDHOW TO AVOID IT https://privacyinternational.org/sites/default/files/2021-06/FREE_TO_PROTEST-UK-EDITION.pdf
Tomorrow the policing bill goes back to the commons.
tomorrow the policing bill goes back to the commons. after almost a year of resistance to the bill on the streets and inside both the commons and the lords, this is the final stage before it becomes law. here’s what … Continue reading
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: Progress of the Bill
Research Briefing This Commons Library briefing paper summarises the Commons stages of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and the Lords amendments to the Bill. The Commons will consider the Lords amendments on 28 February 2022 Police, Crime, Sentencing … Continue reading
A rant about it all
There are a lot of law changes going on, here in the UK, that affect people while trying to celebrate. Themselves, their culture. just wanting to have a nice time! and let rip with their friends. I am `middle aged’ … Continue reading
Part 4 of the Police Bill… Echoes of the Porrajmos?’
We are sleepwalking into a human rights catastrophe Date published27 January 2022LocationUKRelated professional interestEthics and human rightsSocial justice, poverty, housing and economy By Allison Hulmes, Mairtain Moloney-Neachtain and Dr Dan Allen (GRTSW Association) “Culture is fading because we are getting forced … Continue reading
UK Traveller communities fear ‘cultural annihilation’ over upcoming trespass laws
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people face imprisonment or hefty fines under new England and Wales Police Bill that ‘criminalises’ nomadic life Blyth Brentnall 25 January 2022, 11.33am Peers will tonight vote for the final time on legislation that has been … Continue reading
Met/NPCC statement – compensation awarded in Investigatory Powers Tribunal case
On 30 September 2021, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) handed down Judgment in relation to the claim brought by Kate Wilson against the Met and the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC). The claim related to the actions of undercover police … Continue reading
Jason Kirkpatrick & the German SpyCops court case
Jason Kirkpatrick is a climate change activist based in Berlin who was targeted by undercover police officer Mark Kennedy. He is now taking legal action in Germany over the deployment of British undercover police officers at the G8 summit in … Continue reading
The policing bill’s attack on Gypsies, Roma and Travellers
The policing bill is the biggest threat to Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in our lifetime. Jake Bowers speaks with Pablo Navarrete to explain why.
