Mark Kerrison 📷

Journalist safety officers hired in every police force in UK The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) says the move would be welcomed by journalists.

Journalist safety officers hired in every police force in UK.
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

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.

XL Bully defendants include 'gang member' and 2 prisoners XL Bullies became a banned breed in December 2023, while existing owners must have a certificate

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.
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... father-in-law bringing home the sweetest watermelons in Hungary in the '90s and, of course, of the West Bank where the watermelon is imbued with so much significance. 2/2

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.

That said, The 1975 can do one with their 'we're apolitical now' (nothing can be more political and entitled than using your headline slot on the Pyramid Stage to say you've turned apolitical during a genocide).

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!

Illegal police raid on my home won’t stop me covering Gaza The police broke the law when they ransacked my house. When will they stop harassing pro-Palestine journalists?

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

UK aircraft not helping Israel threaten ‘aid ship’ A Royal Air Force surveillance flight over the Eastern Mediterranean has been misrepresented by some news outlets as somehow aligned with Israeli threats toward the UK-flagged aid ship Madleen.

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 Nick Stern to undergo surgery for wound sustained during the standoff between police and anti-Ice protesters

British photojournalist hit by non-lethal rounds during Los Angeles protests
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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.

You seem to have forgotten your sponsored trip to Israel where you were welcomed by at least one individual statements made by whom were cited as evidence of genocidal intent in a genocide case against Israel before the International Court of Justice.

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?

A copse and pasture are pictured bathed in late afternoon sunlight from behind an oak tree on a warm first day of spring.

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.

19.03.25 - Justice For Mario Paciolla UN Aid Worker Allegedly 'Suicided' In Colombia #NonArchiviamo - Images | Luca Neve Do not copy, screenshot, screengrab photographs for personal or professional or Social Network use whitout permission, it is theft. Please contact luca.neve@hotmail.com

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

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill hundreds, Francesca Albanese reacts | podcast Francesca Albanese is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories and her opinions have sparked controversy in the past.

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.

Israel cuts off electricity supply to Gaza, minister says Eli Cohen's announcement on Sunday came one week after Israel cut off all aid supplies to the territory.

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.

He’d do better to apologise for Britain’s horrific crimes against enslaved people in Jamaica and elsewhere.

King Charles reveals his personal playlist, from Marley to Kylie King Charles III is launching a personal playlist of music from the Commonwealth that lifts his sprits.

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...

'Photographer's Photographer' Man behind six decades of iconic press images dies Scotsman photographer Allan Milligan worked for the paper for 40 years

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.
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Screenshot of link for the Copyright and Ai Consultation from the Government's Intellectual Property Office showing it spelled as 'Intelluctual (sic) Property Office'.

(see link above)

Also trying not to be too concerned that the government's 'Intelluctual (sic) Property Office' responsible for this vital consultation cannot even spell the name of their department correctly...
@chrisbryant1962.bsky.social

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.