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Photographer | Writer | Academic | Mentor | London | New Delhi | Everywhere between | Member of Panos Pictures | PhD (History) | Own views | www.stuartfreedman.com. Vogliamo Tutto.

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An English winter - missing colour and the sun's warmth. To remedy, an unpublished image from the Indian Coffee House in Jaipur - an out-take from my 2016 book, The Palaces of Memory-Tales from the Indian Coffee House.

03.12.2024 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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UK's David Lammy blasted for saying 'there are no journalists in Gaza' Journalists around the world condemn the British foreign secretary for erasing the work and suffering of Palestinian journalists

UK's David Lammy blasted for saying 'there are no journalists in Gaza' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-david-lammy-blasted-claiming-no-journalists-gaza

30.11.2024 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 14
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Renewed attacks on speech sends chills through US pro-Palestine student movements How universities respond to the suppression could define the boundaries of campus activism for years to comeΒ 

Renewed crackdown on free speech aims to overwhelm US student protests - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/massive-crackdown-free-speech-threatens-overwhelm-us-student-protests

30.11.2024 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Important and with an irresistible energy - As we rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic still on at the Saatchi Gallery.

30.11.2024 10:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The NHS was built in 1948 when the country was broke after WW2. This government could invest properly in the health of the nation- it’s a question of political choice.

29.11.2024 07:08 β€” πŸ‘ 160    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1
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Politicians should resign for lying? Over to you, Keir

29.11.2024 07:24 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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At least 42 Palestinians killed as Israel ramps up bombing in central Gaza Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says conditions for reaching a ceasefire in Gaza have improved.

Another day another Israeli atrocity that went virtually unreported in the 'civilised' West: at least 42 people killed in Israeli attacks as bombing intensifies and tanks advance into areas of the territory’s north and south. www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...

29.11.2024 07:39 β€” πŸ‘ 175    πŸ” 94    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

If Scotti’s are still open, I’ll be there…

28.11.2024 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The sun shining on the righteous… and me in my Beloved Scotti’s in Clerkenwell

28.11.2024 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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UK workers face some of Europe's greatest job stress, report says British workplaces rank among the worst in Europe for long hours, tight deadlines and limited autonomy, without being any more productive.

British workplaces rank among the worst in Europe for long hours, tight deadlines and limited autonomy, without being any more productive, according to a report prepared as the new Labour government plans tougher rules for employers reut.rs/3Zi79R7

25.11.2024 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 205    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

tory love letter in full

24.11.2024 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Economics of Despair Of the ten most deprived areas of Britain, seven saw far-right pogroms this summer. Any attempt to counter the rise of fascism must start with reckoning with and stamping out the system which spawned ...

"When you grow up in a world that tells you that you have to fight to survive, the more you’re struggling to survive, the harder you’re going to fight."

My piece on how competitive individualism and economic insecurity combined to foment race riots in the UK tribunemag.co.uk/2024/11/the-...

22.11.2024 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 91    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Excessive deregulation means that the UK is hurtling towards the next crash Deregulation creates opportunities for bankers to take reckless risks with other people’s money, collect bonuses and destabilise economies.
22.11.2024 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you oppose NHS privatisation, please could you repost this and follow me? I need to know who to follow next (it’ll be you!) 🌟🌟🌟

22.11.2024 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1375    πŸ” 1478    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 23
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Yesterday to the magnificent Letizia Battaglia exhibition at The Photographers Gallery. Of course she had balls of steel around Palermo’s blood-letting but the quiet images equally touching and human.

22.11.2024 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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UK sees privatisation β€˜opportunities’ in Ukraine war British aid is being used to open up Ukraine’s wrecked economy to foreign investors and enhance trade with the UK.

πŸ‘‰NEW -- UK sees privatisation 'opportunities' in Ukraine war

by @markcurtis30.bsky.social

British aid is being used to open up Ukraine’s wrecked economy to foreign investors and enhance trade with the UK.

www.declassifieduk.org/uk-sees-priv...

20.11.2024 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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One of most beautiful posters in Catalan from the Spanish Civil War. "Peasant!: the revolution needs your efforts." Socialist UGT trade union. By Josep Subirats

19.11.2024 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 141    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Declassified UK Declassified UK is the leading media organisation uncovering UK foreign policy, military and intelligence agencies real role in the world.

You won’t find out about the UK’s support of Israel in the national media. There’s a media blackout.

πŸ‘‰ Go to our website -- declassifieduk.org

πŸ‘‰ Subscribe to our YouTube channel -- www.youtube.com/c/declassifi...

20.11.2024 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 104    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Don't remember Beth Rigby framing questions in this way when the Tories froze wages and benefits, introduced the bedroom tax, tripled tuition fees, and curbed workers' rights.

20.11.2024 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 265    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 3
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It snowed here today in the UK for the first time this winter.
I hate snow.
Here's a picture of snow from a reportage I made a thousand years ago on the legacy of the writer and mystic, Kahlil Gibran in Bcharre, Northern Lebanon.

19.11.2024 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good morning , here's your #FoxOfTheDay , shared by @kizbang on Instagram

19.11.2024 10:18 β€” πŸ‘ 26258    πŸ” 883    πŸ’¬ 216    πŸ“Œ 26
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Gotta love those double standards

19.11.2024 10:11 β€” πŸ‘ 79    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Kathy said.

19.11.2024 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am very expensive but worth every penny πŸ˜‰

18.11.2024 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, you could always split the entrance fee and wait for her inside... ; )

18.11.2024 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Press pass = no queue - as most institutions in Europe.

18.11.2024 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Recently in Paris to see Caillebotte’s Peindre les hommes at MusΓ©e d’Orsay. Always intrigued by Le Pont de l’Europe 1877. Thoroughly modern breaking numerous compositional notions that photography inherited. Despite modernist motifs, feels almost postmodern - a bit of a decisive β€˜indecisive’ moment…

18.11.2024 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of the academic journal Visual Culture in Britain's page on Bluesky.

Screenshot of the academic journal Visual Culture in Britain's page on Bluesky.

Welcome @vcib.bsky.social to πŸ¦‹!

I am so excited to be one of the new editors-in-chief. The journal is relaunching later this year and we're now accepting articles and reviews for publication in 2025. More info here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...

18.11.2024 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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The Great Driving Right Show by the Zetkin Collective Symbolically, affectively, and materially, the car is a β€˜vehicle’ for the far right, channelling apolitical investments in the status quo into reactionary forms of anti-ecological politics. In this co...

By far the best exposition of the nexus between the car, the Right and fossil capital - salvage.zone/the-great-dr... from the excellent
@zetkincollective.bsky.social via Salvage Magazine

18.11.2024 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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