'I'll play you Donald Trump lying, and the Met Commissioner doing what every patriotic Brit should be doing...' @mrjamesob.bsky.social cautions against 'treachery', as Sir Mark Rowley rubbishes Trump's claims about safety under Sadiq Khan last month.

"I mean, it was a sandwich." 😆

Good-bye, Martin Parr. Last May we were waiting, and waiting, for supper and had a laugh or two, which was typical for him. One of the lights of photography has gone out. it was probably a flashgun.

I've been interviewed! (Michael W. Plant referenced many previous articles so I couldn't cut and paste - I had to really think anew.) street-photography.net/2025/12/05/r...

Spectators, Lower Broadway, New York 2015

Thanks to Cold War Steve

San Francisco, 2016. I came across this photo today while looking for something else. I still like it.

One of my favorite little tunes because it's that kind of day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DktH...

Wishing all who celebrate a very Happy Thanksgiving day. (or as it's known over here, Thursday.)

For those keeping score at home, the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was appointed illegally and is incompetent. And the acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia - Albemarle County’s Robert Tracci - is also incompetent. Great things happening.

Today Chatham House welcomed John Kerry, the 68th US Secretary of State under President Barack Obama and the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate under President Joe Biden. The event was chaired by Bronwen Maddox and held on the record. Watch the event➡️ bit.ly/48zIWdC

Sen. Mark Kelly on MS NOW: "I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane. I've been nearly shot down multiple times … My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head, six people killed around her … We know what political violence is.  And we know what causes it, too."

The City of Paris has had the good sense to ban rental scooters. The streets and sidewalks are safer, tidier, and much more pleasant to either walk or ride a bicycle than they were three years ago.

These are the same category as Wes Anderson movies - everyone signs up to act in them immediately no matter the fee, no matter the script, because they know they’re going to have so much fun on set

The Elizabeth Line in London is interesting because it is concrete proof that it is actually possible for the state in the UK to do something good, like just straightforwardly it's a useful addition to our public transport infrastructure that works well and looks nice. So why are most things crap?

Taps sign

Pretty good.

Updating my LEGO White House

"The problem is not the Albanians. The problem is where to the find the scapegoats for this disastrous decision to leave Europe. It is a disaster." Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania on the consequences of Britain leaving the European Union. Watch in full➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0

Love this video. It starts way up the road from the densest part of the protest & doesn't even show all the people lining the other side.

I'm proud to be with these fine photographers in this great photo exhibition in the magnificent St. Anne's Limehouse. It opened last weekend and runs until January! Come on down and see the prints. The photographs are marvelous and the setting in one of Hawksmoor's finest churches can't be beat.

If you want to understand where we are, don't look first at voters or public opinion, look at how their knowledge of the world is constructed and mediated It shouldn't be surprising that those who have the power to shape public discourse have a key responsibility in our current plight

To all who wryte storyes & poemes, to everyone who doth wryte scriptes & screenplayes, to those who make art of all kyndes, and to those who designe and performe yn daunse, and theatre -- thanke yow. Whethir you make for a few friendes or an audience of millions, thanke yow. You helpe us all.

1/3 There’s a strong relationship between Reform / far right support and the Brexit Leave constituency. A continuation of the refusal to accept that Britain is poorer and more unequal not due to immigration but because it is no longer subsidised by an Empire. theconversation.com/brexit-how-t...

The Mail making it quite clear this week that it hasn't shifted an inch from the days when - alongside many members of the Tory establishment & thousands of 'ordinary people' with 'legitimate concerns' - it came out in full support of Oswald Moseley & his fascist Blackshirts. Owner, editor or both?

There's very good money in being a right-wing hate monger. We really need to be pointing that out a lot more. It's a path to wealth for quite a few people on both sides of the Atlantic in the age of politainment.

Congratulations to Brazil, joining South Korea among the countries who successfully did what the United States could not 🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

"Oaxacan Sketchbooks" is on the walls and ready for today's opening at Galerie Hertz! Reception at 1:00, 1253 South Preston St, Louisville, KY. If you're near, come on down! (The show runs through mid-October if you can't make it today.)

The @nytimes.com ran a whole story about the murder of Venezuelan civilians on a ship as if it were a military matter and we were at war with Venezuela. It was a crime. The story never mentioned that Trump ordered a criminal act and the Navy followed an illegal order. This is a major event.

The news that they're collectively compiling a list of abusers should be sending some terror though some elite male circles right about now. Also this:

@mrjamesob.bsky.social think someone listens in regularly

NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...

Right now there’s a lot of articles about how 2025 US total box office so far proves movies are in decline. It’s mostly bullshit. The real story of 2025 is original movies audiences want to see are doing individually far better than anyone expected, and studios seem to not know, or what people want…

Good to see this excellent review of @hofrench.bsky.social's important new book. "French has delivered a panoramic, sympathetic, yet analytical portrait of a global black movement, deepened by his own family connections with West Africa." (Gift link 👇🏽.)

2 still lives, Angkor Village Hotel, Siem Reap, Cambodia, March 2000. I'm continuing the long trek through the files seeking pictures never away from a contact sheet. #fromthearchives

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

I’ve documented protests for decades. The asylum hotel protests I’ve photographed have all been very small. When I first turned up at the Newcastle protest, and asked the police where the protesters were, they pointed to one man and said he’s over there.

There's no such thing as good settler colonialism. Not in the past. Not today in Palestine.

"Netanyahu's manipulation of antisemitism is unworthy." "By pushing the idea that Jews around the world identify with his far-right policies, it is the Israeli prime minister himself who is fueling antisemitism, in France and elsewhere." (No paywall.) www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.

Dead TV, Rotherhithe, London 2000. I don't know about you, but I often feel just this way when news broadcasts come across the TV.

Reminder that Putin has never said he wants a trilateral meeting, had never said he would respect Ukrainian sovereignty, and has never said he wants to end the war. Not to be a downer, but the discussion of security guarantees is premature.

Great thread for jazz lovers & the jazz curious. Start with the video, then come back to the thread. It's smart! Fun! Opinionated! Long! Worth it!

fstoppers.com/opinion/sam-... I needed to rant.

Today's the Dominican Day Parade in New York! I'm not there but I've been. The first photo from 2005 has been published in "Bystanders: A History of Street Photography" by Joel Meyerowitz and Colin Westerbeck but the second, from 2014, has never been seen before.

OK techno, metal, hard-core fans: One of the most amazing videos you'll see in recent times from my friend AI artist Alessandro Bavari. It's original, brilliant, & a bit disturbing. This is a Good Thing. Beats kick in at about 0:50 so stay with it. www.alessandrobavari.com/pure-collaps...

Last night I had a fun conversation with Todd Visser and Danny Jackson of @street_badass on Instagram about my story in photography, photography in general, and lots of other things. There were a lot of laughs. They put it all on YouTube and you can see it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOui...

“For news organizations, the issue isn’t responsibility, but survival. Autocratic leaders don’t want evidence-based journalism of any kind to exist at all: They want to shape reality, to decide themselves what is true and false.” — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.status.news/p/anne-apple...