UPDATE: Thames Valley Police have advised that no charges will be brought against four men arrested after these images, among others, of Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were projected onto Windsor Castle on 16th September. Slideshow at: www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...

Respond to the UK government's consultation on late payments and poor practices. The National Union of Journalists has responses to support your submission. This is an important opportunity for every freelance journalist. #StopTheFreelanceRipOff: nuj.org.uk/resource/stop-the-freelance-rip-off.html

Excellent opinion piece in The Guardian by Jonathan Liew, which strips away the hyperbole to identify some of the politics behind football support in Israel.

London, 18/10/2025. Climate campaigners protest outside the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) to call on the UK government to reject Equinor's application to develop Rosebank, the UK’s largest undeveloped oil field. Slideshow at: www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...

Imagine being a Prime Minister who went out of his way to have reversed an operational decision based on considered expert safety advice so that the uber-racist Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans can come to the UK to cause havoc. Keir Starmer has lost the plot. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Sir Keir Starmer has many questions to answer over Gaza, but I never imagined he'd back the virulently racist away support of Maccabi Tel Aviv. I wonder which of their songs he's going to sing? Their anthem, the 'Rape Song'? 'Death to the Arabs'? Or the one about there being no kids left in Gaza?

Excellent. More of this, please. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

London, 13/10/2025. Pro-Palestinian campaigners, including family members, protest outside Woolwich Crown Court in solidarity with the Filton 24 on the occasion of a bail application hearing. Slideshow at: www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...

London, 11/10/2025. Hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestinian campaigners take part in the 32nd National March for Palestine since October 2023. A handful of pro-Israel counter-protesters are arrested while trying to block the march. Slideshow at: www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...

“The Conservative Party should properly communicate and clarify the specific reasons for not granting these journalists access to its conference. Once again, the NUJ calls on all political parties to uphold media freedom and democratic accountability.” bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

London, 4/10/2025. Around 1,000 people attend Defend Our Juries' Lift The Ban silent vigil in Trafalgar Square. The Metropolitan Police make 492 arrests, of which 488 for supporting proscribed organisation Palestine Action. See also warning at link. Slideshow at: www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...

London, 7/10/2025. University students march from KCL to SOAS via LSE and UCL to mark 'the second anniversary of the beginning of the genocide in Gaza’. Slideshow at: www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...

Journalist safety officers hired in every police force in UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

These accounts sound very plausible to me. I was also denied water & access to medication when detained in Israel & soon found the bites to corroborate rampant bed bugs in the cell. All pales in comparison, though, to the ritual violence, humiliation & abuse endured by Palestinians in Israeli jails.

Well, this is odd. An image of an XL Bully accompanied by my byline. Only the image wasn't taken by me and nor would I know where to begin in identifying an XL Bully for captioning purposes. www.mylondon.news/news/uk-worl...

I love synchronicities. Listening to Frank Zappa's (instrumental) Watermelon In Easter Hay, I've just been offered a slice of watermelon. Watermelons always conjure up memories for me: of rows of watermelon stalls on roads out of town in Lazio & Campania in Italy in the '80s, of my late... 1/2

I last saw Neil Young perform live in 1979, on the Rust Never Sleeps tour. He'd already had 16 years on the road. Almost half a century after Rust Never Sleeps he still looks and sounds in remarkably fine fettle and the sound he gets out of Old Black is still instantly recognisable and quite unique.

Glastonbury. I've become such an old softy. Shedding tears when Lewis Capaldi's eyes brim as what seemed a very large chunk of a 200,000 crowd sang along to Someone You Loved and not being far off again when CMAT introduced Take A Sexy Picture Of Me with a moving account of how she came to write it.

Everywhere on @theguardian.com: 'In a world where telling the truth has never been more challenging, your support keeps the Guardian fearless, independent, and freely accessible to all. Support a free press that speaks truth to power.' On The Guardian front page: A government PR handout photo!

Deeply sinister and well worth a read. Especially, but not exclusively, for journalists.

This UK Defence Journal article, in rebutting suggestions that the Madleen was subject to RAF surveillance, raises so many more questions re the UK’s active role in Gaza where war crimes, crimes against humanity and a likely genocide have been committed. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-aircraft-...

Tonight my thoughts are with the twelve brave souls on board the Madleen. Aid workers, journalists, campaigners & a MEP. All non-violent, all on the Madleen only because our governments have failed to act to prevent a genocide & are now failing to provide aid to a population being starved in Gaza.

British photojournalist hit by non-lethal rounds during Los Angeles protests www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New armoured trucks trialled by the Met Police are Israeli Plasan SandCats, widely used by Israel in Occupied Palestine. Plasan supplied c. 700 before Israel invaded Gaza in 10/23, where it has since committed war crimes, crimes against humanity & acts of genocide. So many ethical questions arise.

Free Alaa campaign asks David Lammy to 'Free Alaa Now'. UK-Egyptian writer & pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el Fattah has been a political prisoner in Egypt for 10 yrs+. His mother Laila Soueif has been on hunger strike since 29/09/2024 & now risks sudden death. www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...

No crystal ball was required to predict that the Met Police would, as in the past, stretch to the very boundaries (and beyond) increased powers given to them to clamp down on the right to protest. Is this really the repressive model for a society that this Labour government wants to see for the UK?

The first day of spring (Windsor, 20/03/2025). Out for a stroll with a camera for the first time since nerve surgery over 5 weeks ago, albeit still for the time being a pocket camera operated using a rather clumsy left hand.

Feeling remarkably well rested without the 4:30 am roar of a jet engine coming into Heathrow to start my day.

Verità e Giustizia per Mario Paciolla! 19.03.25 Justice For Mario Paciolla UN Aid Worker Allegedly 'Suicided' In Colombia #NoiNonArchiviamo #PHOTOS -> www.lucaneve.com/gallery/19-0... #NonArchiviamo #MarioPaciolla #Paciolla #Rome #Italy #Roma #Italia

Finally, a discussion on this topic on UK broadcast media is centred around International Humanitarian Law, rather than around statements emanating from a state led by a fugitive from justice still wanted by the ICC for suspected war crimes in Gaza. www.channel4.com/news/israeli...

Important exhibition at a time when representations of Palestinian identity and culture are being erased in so many different ways.

Where today are the politicians who had been stressing yesterday the importance of upholding the 'international rules-based order' in relation to Ukraine? I guess over 400 murdered in Gaza during a ceasefire, overwhelmingly women, children and the elderly, must be a bit awkward for them.

49th story on the BBC News mobile website. Where would it be placed if the headline were reversed to ‘Gaza to cut off electricity supply to Israel, minister says’? Collective punishment is, of course, prohibited by international humanitarian law.

Guessing that it’s the anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, anti-war, Rastafarian, pro-liberation, pro-self-determination, pro-social justice content of Bob Marley’s entire life’s work that ‘King’ Charles identifies with? Was he ever more tone-deaf? www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Scotsman pays tribute to former chief photographer Allan Milligan. The gallery displays many historic images, but that of DI George Johnstone of Special Branch being slashed by a youth in Glasgow during a pro-IRA march in 1971 has long been fixed in my mind. www.scotsman.com/news/scottis...

Happy to have contributed to the UK government's important Consultation on Copyright and AI - a combo of dictation and very slow left index finger typing after recent surgery! Photographers, artists & other creators: the deadline is 23.59 *TODAY*. ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com/ipo/consulta...

Back home after surgery with my arm raised trying really hard not to make it look anything like a certain fascist billionaire.

Our statement following Angela Rayner's decision to demolish Grenfell Tower

Winding down in preparation for surgery and a lengthy rehabilitation, I today very much enjoyed a quiet couple of hours browsing Colin Wilkinson's magnificent 'Coal Faces', a fitting photographic epitaph to the British coal mining industry. Available at: www.imageandreality.co.uk/store/p/coal...

“This is Gaza” launches globally on Youtube today. The documentary is a powerful eyewitness account of life under siege, as filmmaker Yousef Hammash risks everything to document the war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Watch and read Yousef's story:

Surely this refusal, or inability, to manage the broad church that characterises the wider Labour Party is only another demonstration of weak, insular leadership and their use of bullying to suppress dissenting views? Image from Stop The Hate rally on 16/03/2024. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

The time is now for politicians of integrity to stand up for international law and to do it unreservedly and unconditionally.

Three women wear Scold’s Bridles, used to silence medieval women who spoke out, amid flames symbolising the world burning during a protest outside the Royal Courts to highlight the silencing of UK climate justice activists (London, 29/01/2025). Full slideshow at: www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...

Photo opportunity — please RT

The National March for Palestine (London, 18/01/2025). Probably the most inappropriate, disproportionate policing I've seen in the UK for an entirely peaceful demonstration, causing Amnesty International & Human Rights Watch to raise concerns. Full slideshow at: www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...

Pleased to see a couple of my images used alongside a useful article by @carladenyer.bsky.social on the amendment proposed by her to the Renters Rights Bill to create a much-needed system of rent controls in the UK (already an established part of private renting in 16 European countries).

Climate activists from @campaigncc.bsky.social gather by the US embassy before US President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration in solidarity with those on the climate crisis frontline & in protest against his climate denial (London, 11/01/2025). More images at: www.markkerrison.com/gallery/2025...

Hundreds of Orthodox Jews protest outside Parliament & Downing Street against proposed legislative changes which they consider to be anti-religious, antisemitic & anti-democratic in the Children’s Wellbeing & Schools Bill (London, 08/01/2025). Full slideshow at: www.markkerrison.com/portfolio/G0...

Thank you to Mick Lynch, the outgoing General Secretary of the RMT union, for having shown our politicians that it is possible to provide well-argued and informative straight answers to all journalists' questions (and also for having rinsed those unwise journalists who tried to pull a stunt on him).

Amusing exchange today with an elderly Orthodox rabbi who approached me outside Parliament to ask if I’m Jewish. I explained that I’m not but that, based on family tree research carried out by my father, I may have some Jewish ancestry a few generations back on both my mother’s & my father’s side.