Tony Jackson

Happy Friday II

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I wouldn’t say disillusioned but it has been a rather odd year. Not what I’d hoped for but the list of achievements/changes is already long. Just a shame few know about them. Our biased press is always like this with a Labour Gov’t but the Gov’t itself really needs to get a grip on comms.

Blue hour at Crummock Water

The way he kept suggesting he was representing ‘the British public’ when they/we were sitting right there in the audience and rejecting him.

His conviction that he is right is only outweighed by his mediocrity. Truly a no-mark.

I thought this audience member was truly excellent. Goodwin seemed shocked by the lack of support for him in the room. Quite right too. Sneering cůnt.

If I were a betting man I think I’d be putting a tenner on a Labour/Lib Dem Coalition after the 2029 election. Still think a Labour majority is foreseeable, and will have been earned, but they do have so many seats with a slim majority.

Happy Friday

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Completely agree. Our scurrilous press keep gunning for women from a working class background having contributed to a culture of mendacity and forgiveness when it comes to wealthy privileged Tory men. Just look what Johnson got away with for years…

Up there

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Happy Thursday street photographers

Two of the worst elements of our society - gutter journalism and exploitative gambling - united in a murky cause
Tax them into the ground

It’s getting out of control in our city and any complaint is met with spectacular whataboutery by the offenders

*Nothing* should be on pavements other than pedestrians and mobility aids

And again some more red sail magic from this summer…
I’m far to be done with the Greenland folders, so except more red sails & ice images 😅.

Minimalism.

Black & White Photography.

© Helen Georgiou

A black and white photograph of a dog laying under a vendor tent. There are people all around walking in the foreground.

A puppy through the crowd.

#photography #photographersofbluesky #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography #urbanphotography #urbangaze #humansofbluesky #eastcoastkin #art #candid #bnw #monochrome #blackandwhite #pets #dogs

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

And another

For #photographyisart

Now for a photograph

For #photographyislife

It's the noblest battle of our new free-speech age: Sarah Pochin's anti-woke couch crusade | Marina Hyde The Reform MP was driven ‘mad’ by the number of black and Asian people on the telly. What totally settled non-issue will her party tackle next, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Similarly, the appalling Pochin deserves every word of this

A crazed racist

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reform wheels out Danny Kruger, the ‘brains’ of Nigel Farage’s operation | John Crace A man with no experience of government is to prepare the party … to govern. What could possibly go wrong?

I’ve always instinctively loathed Kruger, not least for his attitudes to LGBT+ people. A no-mark and a bigot.

He deserves this humiliation at the hands of the excellent John Crace:

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In their minds maybe but it wasn’t in any way a valid reason. It was an outrage.

No. There was no susceptibility if you were ‘openly gay’. Don’t make excuses for them. Pure discrimination.

That might be where the thread started

I console myself with the thought that my inability to work for people whom I don’t respect, along with my disdain for bureaucracy, probably would have made my career there short lived 😂

Their loss in any event

Same day

Just around the corner

And another

My cup ran over that day

Back to the photos; another from the same shoot

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On the one hand it's good to be able to see them and call them out; on the other they are emboldened and feel able to say what they want without sanction.

Freedom of speech, of course, but not without social consequences. And hate speech is exempt. Punish them.

#sanctiontheracists

There was a time when we couldn't read each others' minds. There was a filter for most, driven by what is socially acceptable. We had rancid racists, plenty of them, but the worst thoughts were private.
Now there is no filter; rancid racists think into social med posts and apply no self-censorship

There was a time when the rancid racist in your street would keep their opinions to themselves as they knew it was unacceptable. Now they can find other rancid racists vis social media and create a gang, virtually and irl.

#smashtheracists