Genius PR work from Norn Iron 🤣🤣🤣 If you know, you know.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... Interesting read on Russia’s Old Believers in Siberia, but cos Guardian’s cheap they just use a wire pic of main subject. I made a short film on her 4 years ago, so here’s 3 stills from that of Agafia Lykova in her remote mountain home near the Mongolian border.

The shot that got me a police beating: Rod Morris’s best photograph www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

He’s fucking deranged. Honestly, there’s never a neurologist at the World Economic Forum when you need one. Paging Dr Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social

“Without us, you’d be speaking German”, Trump has announced at the WEF. Funnily enough I remember my father telling me as a child that if it wasn’t for the Russians I’d be speaking German. I’m with my Dad on this one. That’s my currently unfashionable opinion for today.

British politicians still talking about their special relationship with the USA. Talk about delusional. “He beats me but he loves me.”

extra.ie/2026/01/16/n... We are good at calling out bullsh** from Belfast 😉

My first new movie in the cinema this year & 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is an absolute banger.

I am shocked - shocked! - to learn that the second most senior police officer in England has been lying & presenting false evidence. Some mistake surely?

Comedy gold breaking out between Bad Enoch & Jenrick in @conservatives.bsky.social 😁

Break out the tiny violins…

Palestinan Action hunger strikers in England are now on day 67. The first of the Republican hunger strikers, Bobby Sands, died on day 66. If the PA prisoners start dying that will put Keir Starmer’s Labour govt right up there with Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative govt. Way to go Keir.

BBC Weather is saying the incoming Storm Goretti could deliver “the worst snow of the decade”. Excuse me, but the correct term is “the *best* snow of the decade”.

"Ohio" (1971) - written by Neil Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970. Performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. 🗃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_9...

I’ve literally been reading multiple variations of this headline for over 30 years.

“The really frightening thing about totalitarianism is not that it commits atrocities but that it attacks the concept of objective truth; it claims to control the past as well as the future...” George Orwell, ‘As I Please’ Tribune, 4 February 1944

The current boarding of a name-changing shadow ship by US forces in the North Atlantic is a marvellous example of life copying art. A key scene in Lord Of War is Nicolas Cage’s arms dealer changing his shadow ship’s name & flag while chased by US forces.

To put in context what George is saying, this is what happened at 66 days to Bobby Sands* youtu.be/v2JYs9KYQBw?... Sands of course had been convicted of a crime. The #PalestineAction detainees have yet to face a criminal trial,they are on remand. *it’s a v good documentary on 1981 hunger strikes

Nothing like celebrating Orthodox Christmas with a tax refund cheque 😃

Today I shall be marking Orthodox Christmas by drinking chacha and making khachipuri. If you know you know.

Going to be funny as fuck when Maduro’s acquitted😁

If I was the Prime Minister of Greenland I’d be feeling rather nervous right now.

Trump really is President Adam from Escape From LA come to life. Where’s Snake Plissken when we need him?

Is there any world leader more cowardly than Keir Starmer? Asking on behalf of Venezuelans everywhere.

Awaiting breaking news that the plane carrying Maduro has suffered an unscheduled disassembly.

Apparently Trump has moved up to kidnapping.

You know you’re getting old when a friends asks what drugs you’re on & after moment you realise he’s asking about your medication, not your stash.

A great late Christmas present, from the author & autographed! New @davidhoffmanuk.bsky.social book Protest. An absolute banger packed with his greatest hits (pun intended)

Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck

Have a Normal For Norfolk Christmas!

The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts is to be renamed The Trump-Kennedy Center. We’re about one month away from Trump making a horse a senator in the U.S. Senate.

A compiled master list of links and some of the discussions from the last few months defending Nick Ut, it is parked here. If anyone needs it. yunghi.medium.com/in-my-opinio...

Father Christmas has come early <hic…>

Here's hoping - the Visual Artists Copyright Reform Act of 2025 (VACRA), “ensuring that professional creators can afford to register all their works.”..and allowing registrations to occur “without regard to publication status, date of publication, or date of creation tinyurl.com/53e4ch34

Planning to celebrate Jane Austen’s birthday by watching the movie of her little known masterpiece: Pride And Prejudice And Zombies.

Why am I not surprised? Turns put that hard drinking racoon has previous😁

Die Hard offers that essential and under-appreciated Christmas counter-message of “ice some bad guys”. 🤣👍

Look what the postie just brought: issue one of Evidence, the new documentary photography magazine from @fistfulofbooks.bsky.social . And it’s an absolute banger😃

Some young fellow I’ve never heard of has won a prize for speeding & the hype on the BBC is amazing.

FFS now Martin Parr’s gone. Pretty soon there’s going to be nobody left.

An afternoon of arterial spray, aka Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.

Donald Trump has been given the first Football Hooligan Peace Award.

Someone please explain to me how you sanction the military intelligence agency of a hostile foreign state. This is baby talk.

It’s *really* worth following the link for the whole story. And the photos. And the security video 😁

Deeply saddened to learn of the death of Andreas Whittam Smith. In 1986 he changed British journalism with launch of new national daily newspaper, The Independent. I was privileged to be part of his great adventure, a publication unlike any I’d ever worked on. RIP & thanks for everything Andreas.

London Squatters Fight Back - Whitechapel, 1973 - flashbak.com/london-squat...

Interested in great documentary photography? I’ve just subscribed to Evidence, the new quarterly from @fistfulofbooks.bsky.social . Launches December 01, & if you subscribe before then there’s a discount fistfulofbooks.com/product-cate...