Break out the tiny violins.

Tony Benn on the monarchy " … “I don't think people realise how the establishment became established. They simply stole land & property from the poor, surrounded themselves with weak minded sycophants for protection, gave themselves titles & have been wielding power ever since!” #downwiththecrown

Gawd, local TV getting ridiculously excited that The Nonce Formerly Known As Prince will be coming to live in Norfolk.

If ex-prince Andrew is to get a new title it should be decided by a vote on the interwebs. What could possibly go wrong?

Saying goodbye to Fleet St legend, colleague & great friend Brian Harris at his funeral today. Note the Leica & Billingham bag on his casket😁

Australia shows the way, defies Silicon valley, rejects copyright exceptions for AI training: tinyurl.com/je24rp5w

“The fact that we don’t have robust explanations for why AI models sometimes resist shutdown, lie to achieve specific objectives or blackmail is not ideal.” No shit Sherlock: we’re doomed, aren’t we?

New quarterly photography magazine from @fistfulofbooks.bsky.social Evidence launches December 01, featuring Janine Wiedel, Peter Dench, Nicola Muirhead, Mike Abrahams, Barry Lewis & John Bolloten: fistfulofbooks.com/product-cate...

Fabulous can of technoworms.

This is absolutely the funniest thing I’ve heard since the last techno balls up. I’m definitely up for dumb people buying smart furniture if this is the result.

Here's why we should never agree to our photographs being used by Generative AI: petapixel.com/2025/10/21/a...

If at first you don’t succeed…🤣

New footage of the Louvre heist.

Come on people, be reasonable. What’s the point of having your own personal taxpayer-funder cop if you can’t tell him to dig up dirt on your enemies?

Going to be funny as hell if Labour lose the next election when the party’s left wing supporters all defect to the Greens because of Starmer’s grovelling after Reform voters.

Arthur just couldn’t quite get used to working from home.

She asset-stripped an entire country and squandered the money to buy votes. Most of the problems with Britain today can be traced back to her disastrous social and economic experiment.

Hanging out in the Lower Falls looking for trouble. You can take the boy out of Belfast, but you can’t take Belfast out of the boy.

It’s quite bizarre watching UK national media live covering Badenoch Tory conference speech as if it has any relevance to anyone on planet Earth.

Admittedly the bar is extraordinarily low, but Starmer has managed to land a rather cruel blow on the supposed opposition.

Banger of a photo of the latest Conservative wannabe Prime Minister by Christopher Furlong.👏🤣

Chris Steele-Perkins: a truly great photographer, an inspiration, and an all-round nice guy.

RIP Brian Harris, one of the finest of a fast vanishing generation. Here's an iPhone clip of Brian launching his book ( vimeo doesn't like playing this on Bluesky but should work if you click this link ) : vimeo.com/168529881

Collectors item chocolate!

I’m constantly amazed by the struggles celebs endure. They never seem to have it easy like the rest of us.

Deeply saddened to learn that Brian Harris, legendary photographer of The Times, The Independent & elsewhere, has passed away. My oldest friend from what we used to call Fleet St. Thank you for everything Brian. RIP

Well at least people in Ireland are enjoying Storm Amy.

Prison seems a pretty good option to me.

Wonderful! apple.news/AdlNQcrVnQPG...

The English always think people in Northern Ireland can’t agree on anything. On the contrary, it only takes the British govt to propose something stupid & Norn Irish Loyalists & Republicans unite in opposition. So it is with Starmer’s ID card, with NI politicians of every stripe denouncing it. 😄

In Dublin at the opening of The National Library permanent collection of Live Aid with my photo of Bono at the Wembley concert.

Stuff you couldn’t make up: you’re at the opening of an exhibition that features some of your own work & a gallery jobsworth tells you not to take pictures 🤣🤦‍♂️👌

Pro tip: never trust an internet provider who can't spell the word "internet".

55 years editorial photographer around the world. Youngest ever staff photographer on The Times. Founding photog at The Independent. Brian Harris is the very definition of a living legend & October 08 he will share his career highlights in London. Be there If you have any interest in photography:

BREAKING: Peak Flag Shag has been achieved.

Contemporary England in a nutshell.

Danny Kruger should have defected to Labour, not Reform. Starmer would have offered him a cabinet post. Minister For Boat Sinking or something.

The level of whitewashing on the BBC World At One re the weekend’s Tommy Robinson Festival Of Racism in London is absolutely jaw dropping.

Closes today

BBC Radio Norfolk on the Outsiders exhibition at Cromer Artspace https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOa58iYDbOG/

Well worth a trip to the seaside.

Press photographer wins second case against police force that keeps prosecuting him www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Finally got a chance to see Outsiders exhibition from @marcdavenant.bsky.social at Cromer Artspace. Excellent & important work. Go & see. At Cromer until Sunday, then Hereford (I think).

They fuck you up, your Mum & Dad…

I’m seeing multiple comments all over the place from people saying that “violence has no place in American politics”. I have to assume that none of these people did history at school, have ever read a book or seen a movie or tv news broadcast.

Just remember this.

A pro gun political activist shot while speaking to an audience about gun violence is like one of the news stories in Paul Verhoeven’s Robocop. Contemporary real life trumps fictional satire again.