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Stuart Freedman
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Photographer | Writer | Academic | Mentor | London | New Delhi | Everywhere between | Member of Panos Pictures | PhD (History) | Own views | www.stuartfreedman.com.
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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 To remedy, an unpublished image from the Indian Coffee House in Jaipur - an out-take from my 2016 book, The Palaces of Memory-Tales from the Indian Coffee House.
December 3, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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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
UK's David Lammy blasted for saying 'there are no journalists in Gaza'
Journalists around the world condemn the British foreign secretary for erasing the work and suffering of Palestinian journalists
www.middleeasteye.net
November 30, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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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
Renewed attacks on speech sends chills through US pro-Palestine student movements
How universities respond to the suppression could define the boundaries of campus activism for years to come 
www.middleeasteye.net
November 30, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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Important and with an irresistible energy - As we rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic still on at the Saatchi Gallery.
November 30, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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jujuliagrace.bsky.social
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.
rrgw.bsky.social Robert White @rrgw.bsky.social · Nov 29
And where would they find any money after the Tories have ruined the economy for the last 14 years ?
November 29, 2024 at 7:08 AM
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Politicians should resign for lying? Over to you, Keir
November 29, 2024 at 7:24 AM
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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...
At least 42 Palestinians killed as Israel ramps up bombing in central Gaza
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says conditions for reaching a ceasefire in Gaza have improved.
www.aljazeera.com
November 29, 2024 at 7:39 AM
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The sun shining on the righteous… and me in my Beloved Scotti’s in Clerkenwell
November 28, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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reuters.com
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
UK workers face some of Europe's greatest job stress, report says
British workplaces rank among the worst in Europe for long hours, tight deadlines and limited autonomy, without being any more productive.
reut.rs
November 25, 2024 at 3:03 AM
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tory love letter in full
Keir Starmer piece in the daily Mail today (with apologies, too many words to fit in alt text…): Jobs are about dignity and pride... not just paying the bills I remember my first job. I was 14 years old, and a local farmer paid me to clear out stones from his field. It didn't pay much, but i still remember the pride of earning some money, the feeling of inde pendence and achievement that comes with earning a living. That's what I mean when I talk about the dignity of work. A good job doesn't just pay the bills. It's about new skills, meeting new people and getting on. It's the confidence of knowing that your contribution is respected. The pride of being able to stand on your own two feet. But right now, the system is failing people. When I see young people who haven t been trained in the skills they need, people who are unable to work because they're stuck on NHS waiting lists, or small businesses unable to recruit and retain suitable workers, I'm angry. There is so much wasted potential - not just for people, but for the country as well. Now, there's one way to deal with this - call people shirkers or go down the road of division. Like the now Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride, who berated anyone and everyone from behind his desk when he was Work and Pensions Secretary, and picked fights instead of governing. It was performative politics at its worst. Meaningless rhetoric to grab headlines, and desperate throws of the dice to cover the cracks. At best, the last government saw people as numbers on a spreadsheet and at worst used every cliche to sow division. We all know how that approach worked out. The economy stagnated. Growth flatlined. Economic inactivity rose, and the benefits bill rose with it. We all know how that approach worked out. The economy stagnated. Growth flatlined. Economic inactivity rose, and the benefits bill rose with it.
November 24, 2024 at 12:08 PM
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"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-...
The Economics of Despair
Of the ten most deprived areas of Britain, seven saw far-right pogroms this summer. Any attempt to counter the rise of fascism must start with reckoning with and stamping out the system which spawned ...
tribunemag.co.uk
November 22, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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Excessive deregulation means that the UK is hurtling towards the next crash
Deregulation creates opportunities for bankers to take reckless risks with other people’s money, collect bonuses and destabilise economies.
leftfootforward.org
November 22, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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jujuliagrace.bsky.social
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!) 🌟🌟🌟
November 22, 2024 at 7:33 AM
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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.
November 22, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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declassifieduk.org
👉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...
UK sees privatisation ‘opportunities’ in Ukraine war
British aid is being used to open up Ukraine’s wrecked economy to foreign investors and enhance trade with the UK.
www.declassifieduk.org
November 20, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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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
November 19, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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declassifieduk.org
You won’t find out about the UK’s support of Israel in the national media. There’s a media blackout.

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November 20, 2024 at 9:38 AM
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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.
November 20, 2024 at 9:42 AM
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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.
November 19, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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Good morning , here's your #FoxOfTheDay , shared by @kizbang on Instagram
November 19, 2024 at 10:18 AM
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Gotta love those double standards
November 19, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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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…
November 18, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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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...
Screenshot of the academic journal Visual Culture in Britain's page on Bluesky.
November 18, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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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
The Great Driving Right Show by the Zetkin Collective
Symbolically, affectively, and materially, the car is a ‘vehicle’ for the far right, channelling apolitical investments in the status quo into reactionary forms of anti-ecological politics. In this co...
salvage.zone
November 18, 2024 at 12:57 PM