Stuart Leech

Politicians will do everything but regulate social media and big tech.

Instead, they bring in pointless legislation that makes everyone's data more vulnerable and fails to protect anyone online.

Politicians will do everything but regulate social media and big tech.

Instead, they bring in pointless legislation that makes everyone's data more vulnerable and fails to protect anyone online.

Yeah definitely nothing to do with Brexit

You’d have thought these people would have at least invented a new catchphrase how long have we heard “it’s the politics of envy”

Care to find one single example of someone getting disability benefits for “being a bit depressed”

Maybe have some compassion for people with conditions you clearly can’t even comprehend. ADHD can be massively debilitating for example but you would know that if you bothered to engage with it

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Artist Weeknotes week 6 recap: Laia Abril’s talk made me reflect on research and storytelling. While working on Canto, I’ve gathered so much material but struggled to shape it. I need to step back, let key themes emerge, and handle stories with care. I'm inspired to revisit my work with fresh focus.

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Artist Weeknotes: Week 5:
A visit to Aspex Gallery seeing my partner's show opening marked 20 years since I began my Photography BA in Portsmouth. Its vibrant music scene shaped my early career in ways I couldn't have predicted. Here are a couple of my early Bloc Party photos from when it all began.

Mark Wahlberg the racist thug who would have thought

You can't really lift something that was never enforced can you? It was written in the act but was never carried out because it was illegal under international law.

The Illegal Migration Act is still active with very minor amendments from Labour

“Some people coming here to work can be positive”

=

“We rely on immigrants to prop up our low wage economy including the NHS and many public services so that the elite can extract as much profit as possible”

The Rwanda scheme was not in any way a serious scheme.

Labour haven’t lifted any bans, asylum seekers still can’t work while their claims are being processed which is a Labour policy introduced in 2000.

If you needed any more evidence that the Times is no longer a serious newspaper look no further

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Here are the links to the articles:
Slatton: grantslatton.com/nobody-cares
Spinks: rojospinks.substack.com/p/how-i-beca...

Jan 17th Artist Weeknotes recap: I read about things falling apart. Rosie Spinks examines living with the reality of collapse, while Grant Slatton’s Nobody Cares argues that systems fail because no one fights to fix them. Both explore late-stage capitalism’s exhaustion and the struggle to find hope.

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Last week's Artist Weeknotes recap: January is a time for ideas. Watching Jesse Eisenberg’s 'A Real Pain' and 'The Double' explored themes of self-worth and comparison. They’re a reminder, especially for creatives, to value our unique perspective and not get lost in self-doubt or unfair comparisons.

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The richest man in the world is doing Nazi salutes and the world's press reacts:

“Long form content”

= Idiotic men talking rubbish for hours

Let me rewrite that for you.

“UK Farmers causing irreversible damage to UK countryside”

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Slide 1: Daily Telegraph Front Page from January 1 2025

Slide 2: Daily Telegraph Front Page from January 1 2025 - Modified

The first week of 2025 marks my fourth weeknote, reflecting on work, media, and politics. Revisiting 'Dehumanising Headlines', I critique the Telegraph’s anti-immigration framing and aim this year to explore counterarguments, fostering thoughtful dialogues on migration in my practice.

There is also this hideous organisation that has basically being doing the same job for the last while.

They publish pseudo research and get quoted a lot by the right wing press

www.migrationwatchuk.org

I'd say it's now as bad but catering to an entirely different audience.

Yep I mean this is the Daily Telegraph we're talking about which is basically just a large print version of the Daily Mail now

According to Companies House it's just a mechanism for Robert Bates to spout his hatred

I’m all for critique of streaming platforms but it does have more than “a single piece” of decent original content

Fallout
The Boys
Mr and Mrs Smith
The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
The Sound of Metal

So we're back in Victorian Britain where we need to send children to work to lift families out of poverty?

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