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Award-winning photographer and writer. Big Issue Top 100 Changemaker 2026.
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With the rise of Trump, Brexit, NFTs and now AI, I can’t help wondering whether most of the human race has been infected by an as yet undiscovered brain-eating parasite.
None of this is true. I can’t get my head around the fact that people are investing billions in a technology which just makes things up and presents them as facts. Anyone who is relying on the AI summaries on Google is an idiot.
“Juries want fairness in court and don’t just obey the government. That’s why ministers are attacking them”
https://www.theguardian.com/law/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/labour-juries-court-proposals-government-ministers-criminal-justice-system
Juries want fairness in court and don’t just obey the government. That’s why ministers are attacking them

Be alive to this threat. The wisdom of ordinary people is our bedrock: a sacred principle is being sacrificed to falsely explain systemic failure, says barrister Michael Mansfield

The Guardian
My Outsiders exhibition on homelessness and substandard housing will open at Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow on the 2nd of April. It’s the last booking for the exhibition which has been seen by over 120,000 visitors so far.
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https://www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/event/marc-davenant-outsiders
Marc Davenant - Outsiders - Street Level Photoworks

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The beach at Lynemouth looking towards where the old seacoal camp used to be. There was a man with a four wheel drive foraging for metal so I tried to engage him in conversation but he wasn’t very forthcoming. He did say he used to gather sea coal and knew Trevor who ran the camp. Trevor was
The side streets here were empty of cars, just terraced houses with some boarded up.
Three that we passed had the sound of generators running inside and windows blanked with thick curtains. I assumed they were cannabis farms.
Can’t remember the last time I walked residential streets with no cars.
A simple truth spotted in a former Northumberland mining village, with boarded up shops, last week.
Politicians and their advisers in their Westminster bubble sit in focus groups in London and wonder why Reform and Brexit happened. They should try renting a house here and then spend six months on benefits living in a post-industrial town with no prospects. Perhaps then they’d understand.
The Ellington mine water treatment plant looming over the remains of a spoil heap which is crumbling into the sea at Lynemouth.
Mik Critchlow’s cousin, and that is how the famous series by Chris Killip came about. I asked the man if he’d like a portrait but he wasn’t interested. He said he’d never agree to be photographed again after last time. Last time was when Killip and Amber made their film apparently. The man seemed