The truth is Farage has 'hacked' the political-media system so is able to fill large chunks of it unchallenged. He has twigged its need for gossip, clicks and 'column inches', and so exploits this. The media shouldn't be going along with it. They should be putting in place measures to stop it.

Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right. Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!

Look what we have here then.

'Slow photography' isn't directly mentioned here, but it's a quality inherent to Sam Abell's approach - one of my favourite people to hear talking about constructing images. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/7... #Photography #SamAbell

🚨NEWS🚨 £24.1 billion in benefits will go unclaimed in 2025/26 says new Policy in Practice report. That is 12x the government's planned benefit cuts. The highest unclaimed amounts are found in: 👉universal credit 👉council tax support 👉carer’s allowance www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/%C2%A32...

As it's Blood Cancer Awareness Month, I'm sharing a vision of hope for those going through cancer treatment. In 2012, I was diagnosed with stage 4b Hodgkin Lymphoma at 26. I documented my journey. These self-portraits were shot six months apart at the beginning and end of chemotherapy. #bloodcancer

7 days to go- a new film, a project close to our hearts, in collaboration with #CombinationDance Together, we’re giving young people with #LongCovid the voices & visibility they deserve. Because no child should be left behind. 🙏 @bendybrain.bsky.social @sedsconnective.org #Dancers #LongCovidKids

BREAKING: Israeli warplanes bomb the headquarters of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society in western Gaza City. WAR CRIME. WAR CRIME. WAR CRIME.

"Serious questions need to be asked as to why Temu has such a negligible economic and tax footprint in the UK despite its enormous sales. The registered office in London is essentially a shell, with no staff and no long-term assets." www.retail-week.com/fashion/temu...

Welfare reform 'must happen', UK minister says. Silence on corporate welfare. For example, Drax makes profits but gets subsidies. Silence on tax perks of the rich. Capital gains and dividends taxed at lower rates than wages. Welfare reform is a code for squeezing the poor, old, sick, disabled.

#Woodsmoke #Airpollution Broken Promises;People who had gone decades—or their entire lives— never experiencing wood smoke pollution have now found themselves living in a miasma of wood smoke. They’ve noticed the change, and they aren’t happy about it. I www.familiesforcleanair.org/modern-wood-...

Full series on Refrakt here ICYMI refrakt.app/series/the-p...

You can get an education in photography by watching Paul Auster's 'SMOKE'. That's why I've quoted some of the dialogue in my preface to SMALL TOWN INERTIA Vol 2 “You’ll never get it… if you don’t slow down my friend.”

The Outsiders project was originally going to cover rural poverty but the pandemic scuppered that. It feels like a subject which needs to be documented, but I’ve lost all of my contacts and access into that area. Perhaps rural poverty could be a project in itself along the lines of Outsiders.

This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

For folks with M.E in England and rest of the UK, here’s a peek of what it’s like in Scotland to access care…based on my experience. 1. There’s not one M.E. consultant in the country. 2. Neurology and cardiology don’t want to see us. My referrals have been rejected. (1/?) #pwME #MECFS

🚨Our upcoming documentary on the VIP Lane made the ITV news this evening. “Waste of taxpayers' money': Whistleblower says billions wasted on unfit PPE during Covid pandemic”. 🎥Tune in to ITV Sunday 10.15pm to watch the rest of “The Covid Contracts” www.itv.com/news/2025-09...

Huge if true, I can keep on the carbs!

Absolutely. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Forbidden Stories network - a way for journalists to get their stories out if they are kidnapped or worse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwO5... #PhotoJournalism #Photography

Fast food life line - from my ME/CFS photo project glass.photo/andrewgiffor... ALT: colour photo of a stack of used takeaway foil containers stacked inside a grubby oven #Photography #DocumentaryPhotography #MECFS #pwME #LongCovid

I have a bunch of broken LEGO from a move a while back and I got a wild hair yesterday and cannibalized them to make myself some flowers I ran out of the white decorative pebbles 🤣 I’m not happy with the blue gravel in the last one so I will prob just do them all white? Input? 🙌 Fun! Do recommend

Synth sounds to soothe you into Friday evening. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQkd...

We need to be very clear about this. Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

Update: Police have described the racially-aggravated shooting of a girl, 9, in Bristol, & said it was 'cowardly & thuggish'. Full story here: www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

‚in June 2025 Elsevier published its 11th edition of Kumar and Clark's "Clinical Medicine". To widespread disbelief, ME was firmly sited in the "General Hospital Psychiatry" section‘ …and they‘re not going to change it. Read this. #ME www.margaretwilliams.me/2025/is-else...

Are out-of-work benefit claims at a record high? My new post open.substack.com/pub/inequali... , and also my take on More or Less this morning at www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

21st century Britain where it's illegal to project an image on a wall but not illegal to supply weapons to mass murdering genocidal psychopaths

This week's photography for the ears... unitednationsofphotography.com/2025/09/17/p...

Self portraits are hard when ill - from my ME/CFS photo project glass.photo/andrewgiffor... ALT: Colour photo of white adult 40-something male sitting alone on easy chair in a cluttered home, with palid skin, nose strip, unwell eyes, vacant stare. #DocumentaryPhotography #pwME #MECFS #LongCovid

Rob Hornstra - on why he felt moved to document us Europeans as we live through drastic change, his disebelief in national identity, instead valuing our shared history & commonalities. @theeuropeans.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcc0... #Photography #RobHornstra #DocumentaryPhotography

The quiet part of the question "how can we design for people not like 'us'?" is often "without testing with or hiring people not like 'us'"

Photo from a while ago - Kerala, India And that's a wrap on photos vaguely worth sharing from the trip. #Photography

I'm starting to think the Daleks had a point.

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Taxing SUVs in line with European countries could raise £2bn a year for the Treasury, says thinktank Transport & Environment, which wants the chancellor to impose a levy on the largest “Chelsea tractors” to reflect the damage they cause to the environment and infrastructure.

You're invited to Lives We Cannot Live by Jeremy Jeffs — a powerful photo exhibition sharing the stories of people with ME.  24–28 Sept 2025   11am–6pm  Oxo Gallery, London  Free entry https://meassociation.org.uk/g59o #MECFS #LivesWeCannotLive #JeremyJeffs

Photo from a while ago - Kerala, India I've always known India as being a multi faith society and saw religous icons of all stripes in Kerala. The increasing Hindu nationalism of late has been extreme and extremely worrying. We didn't see or sense any of that on our trip, thankfully. #Photography

Members of the public can add their messages to Keir Starmer here: secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/177398/...

UK PwME Advocacy Alert: meassociation.org.uk/2025/09/ask-...

Photo from a while ago - Kerala, India Laundry worker napping at the Dhobikhana (public laundry). A touristy holiday, I wasn't poking my nose in as many places as I'd usually like, hence far fewer people-based images. I donated to the staff tips fund. #Photography

First listen of Tom Middleton's ambient 76:14 album*. Caught one of his long DJ sets at Amnesia Ibiza and it was a masterpiece of space, depth, colour. Neat to hear his childhood mind was blown by Isao Tomita, too! *Co-made with Mark Pritchard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxNP...

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Photo from a while ago - Kerala, India Just casually hanging around (on the daily), awaiting fish scraps. #Photography

Apologies for the silence, I have tried to update people on the ‘other’ platform, but couldn’t manage here too. It’s been a rocky year, I spent most of the summer in hospital due to the progression of this disease/ these set of diseases and the malnutrition being allowed to get so critical… #MECFS

@oxaloacetatecfs.bsky.social Hiya, any tips for reducing heartburn from this? I'm about five months in and getting heartburn at three capsules daily. It's less bad if I'm not PEM'd and/or take with food, but it's fairly consistent at all other times too. Thanks.

A new documentary goes behind the scenes at The Golden Spurtle, a porridge-making championship where contestants vie to make the perfect bowl