What the hell has Piers Morgan to offer on the subject of the war in Ukraine? #Newsnight

anyone ever hear of a thing called 'holding on to a lead'? #LUFC

While we decry the US trying to impose the Witkoff-Kremlin plan on Ukraine, it's worth noting the continuing impact of Obama's appeasement of Putin when he invaded the Crimea. This from 2023 by Adrian Karatnycky for @foreignpolicy.com looks particularly prescient .. archive.is/202503021317...

One of the best renditions of Flower of Scotland I've ever heard. #Scotland #Hampden #Denmark

Mahmood is in the find out phase, having been suckered by Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UK to World. This is The MInd being given steadily more leeway to eff up the rest of us. The Mind controlling the biggest military the world has ever seen, dwarfing the rest of the world's big guns combined. Using that military with growing irresponsibility. While our own leaders watch and learn.

If as Labour leader you wanted someone to front up a vicious immigration policy designed solely to appease traditional Labour voters polling as prospective Reform voters ... you'd choose a daughter of immigrants Shabana Mahmood: naive, or as amoral as Starmer?

surely #Newsnight can challlenge this categorisation of 'illegal' immigration as contrary to the 1951 Refugee Convention. Why is this inherently racist categorisation going unchallenged.

"People have cars, people have e-bikes. Those are assets they should contribute to the cost of benefits." Home Office Minister Alex Norris defending Mahmood's proposal to steal immigrants' valuables. Rightly outraged by people arriving in small boats with their cars and e-bikes. #realitydisconnect

Mahmood's hateful rhetoric is immoral, but that will count for nothing now that Starmer has remade Labour in his own image. In terms of practical politics, exactly this. 👇

looking towards the Sea of Marmara, over backstreet rooftops, #Istanbul #streetphotography #panorama

beautiful writing from @timothysnyder.bsky.social .. a morning run with his daughter; a short story. snyder.substack.com/p/running-to...

Robert Jenrick's Shabana Mahmood impersonation now difficult to distinguish from Shabana Mahmood's Robert Jenrick impersonation.

In the Rubens House, #Antwerp #Rubenshuis #streetphotography

Compulsory labour is known as corvée, and it's traditionally been seen as a form of slavery #newsnight

a gulf opens up here between US and UK culture. In the UK comments on this post would be dominated by discussion of Donald Trump in a bikini. So far, 150+ comments in, nobody has gone there. 'Which culture do you prefer: let me know in the comments'

we appear to have an off switch that's very easy for other sides to operate. #lufc

Yeniçeriler Caddesi, #Istanbul, late summer evening. Walking through quiet crowded streets to the #medrese to smoke a nargile and talk with friends. #streetphotography

a celebration of ordinary things, light, time, making and seeing don't we all desperately need to see beautiful things in such disordered times

Aerial image of one of my favourite glacier rivers in Iceland. Image taken just few days ago.

late sun on Istiklal Caddesi, #Istanbul #streetphotography

National Socialist racial purity laws were modelled on US precedent. Closely and with careful deliberation. Very grateful to Jermaine Fowler @thehumanityarchive.bsky.social for this. thehumanityarchive.substack.com/p/this-isnt-...

side street off #Istiklal, #Istanbul #streetphotography #panorama

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in the Serbian city of Novi Sad right now. Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia. A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today. (🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)

Redevelopment in Satır Sokak ('Cleaver Street') in #Istanbul. #streetphotography

going to start posting shots from the documentary #photoraphy series I'm working on, about the #medrese in #Istanbul, the nargile cafe there.

Will the military obey illegal orders? Who are they prepared to shoot. How does that get decided at different command levels .. critical issue in any #coup / attempt This convo between @radiofreetom.bsky.social and David Frum is worth a read. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

The UK govt is approving arms export licences in the knowledge that those arms will be used in genocide. In this case in #Sudan. from @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Someone went there: "It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It" via @futurism.com futurism.com/future-socie...

Very sad to see Jimmy go out; lovely bloke and a great striker. Even if it was unforgivable to go from Leeds to Chelsea. #Strictly #LUFC

"The turnout of 16.6% was significantly lower than the last deputy leadership election in 2020 of 58.8%." 83% of members couldn't be bothered to vote. Labour, Starmer's passionless party. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

US Christian Nationalism in the UK: the strategy is already in play: anti-abortion, anti-immigrant, 'Judeo-Christian' supremacist. Can someone tell me where in the UK Church there is a counter-strategy in play? archive.is/202510130628...

Today in "British Government Does Mad Stuff That Will Divert Shed Loads of Policei Officers From Their Real Jobs At Huge Public Expense" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

SCOTUS binning the Voting Rights Act: "it will no longer be illegal ... to racially gerrymander congressional districts to minimize and dilute Black voter power. But it will be illegal to use race to redistrict in such a way that restores Black voter power." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Trump’s Columbus Day proclamation is a celebration of white Christian nationalism that is a threat to pluralistic democracy. It praises Columbus for "dedicating the land to God" and for "the ultimate triumph of Western civilization." www.whitetoolong.net/cp/176006073

If you have Insta, look at this by @geraldknaus.bsky.social on the ICC Knaus, with Rory Stewart, wrote a book on reconstruction in Bosnia / Balkans which should be on the reading list of anyone concerned with the practical politics of peacemaking. www.instagram.com/reel/DPJf_R8...

The NHS spends £billions paying off loan shark debts .. PFI - Private Finance Initiatives Wes Streeting wants more money for the loan sharks Help @everydoctor.org.uk defend an NHS where the money goes to helping staff care for patients everydoctor.org.uk/stand-with-n...

This terrified girl in Gaza is too young to know that we had the power to stop the bombs falling on her family, but we chose not to. She doesn't know of our profound and inescapable complicity. But we do.

I've seen few things that so clearly show the instinctive, irrational hatred of black people that so many White Nationalist people have.

Your acknowledgement of harm must be at least as public as the harm. If you said something harmful in public/ a staff meeting / a FB group /whatever, it's not enough to re-engage a key person privately. Not if your actions have other impacts & others don't know you've been making these efforts.

Carpet. Leg of sculpture tripod. Light from stained glass.

with Scarlot Rose last year #fineartnude #nude #portrait

The thing that I find most offensive about 'Jesus died in my place' evangelicalism is it has God perform a human sacrifice. The thing in the Jewish Bible that he finds the most revolting, see Jeremiah 19.

"Price increases are, in a sense, inflation." V. Putin At least it's a better grasp of economics than Trump.

#Ciné2025 172 - LE MYSTÈRE ALEXINA 1985 - René Féret #Gindou2025 Film d'une belle beauté graphique (mais dont la qualité acoustique était entachée par les mauvaises conditions de projection en plein air). Histoire toutefois troublante sur fond d'identité sexuelle en internat de jeunes filles.

Cat, a few years ago.

Lisa Fonssagrives on the Eiffel Tower with Erwin Blumenfeld in May 1939. The reckless joy and the huge skirt billowing in the sunlight. Life and optimism and knowing what was about to break across Europe in a few months. Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy.

Melissa #nude #fineartnude

one last one for tonight from the 2018 shoot with Ariel

#Newsnight .. bit of a pointless squabble tonight