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Also the relevant comparison would be between gen Z and what Boomers thought when they were the age gen Z are now.

It varies a lot according to the question asked. You can find the full results here but I think the methodology is questionable at best https://www.kcl.ac.uk/assets/news/iwd-2026-global-charts-final.pdf

In the meantime—and it's quite possible, I'm advised, that these slimebuckets have closed all their legal loops—I wrote a pretty good book that you can acquire for not a lot of money or take out of the library, and I've been known to answer questions here when people ask me questions.

Still depressing numbers of course

Early stroll. The made-to-measure sky. A possibility of loitering mist. Historic sites of former puddles. The bus passes slowly, like time sometimes does. A security light blink, blinks again, then stays awake.

Lazy click bait journalism. You cannot reliably amalgamate results of a global survey when the views held by Gen Z men in different countries vary so widely. The combined number used in the article is meaningless for anything other than outrage and fuelling generational divisions.

Technocapitalists’ great trick is to make people who hate all this bullshit feel like they’re suffering from the same fogeys-not-coping-with-a-changing-world syndrome every generation succumbs to, rather than, say, just rejecting a rampant evil that seeks to rob us of our individuality and soul.

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

Look Inside Richard Hell’s East Village Tenement Apartment (Gift Article) The punk-rock icon and writer has spent more than 50 years in his East Village tenement apartment.

Richard Hell’s East Village flat full of books

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #musicsky #booksky

Happy #WorldWildlifeDay! Here's a badger I once painted. Oil on board...

Here's some of my furniture featuring a Welsh blanket pattern.
#art #design #furniture

The declyne of readinge ys caused by manye thinges. A huge cause ys a systematic & decades-long devaluinge of literature at all levels of educacioun. We kan not put instrumentalitye above meaninge and still thrive. Fundinge the humanityes ys key to a just societye of well-informed citizens.

Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.

What in the absolute fuck is this.

Leeds, c.late 1980s, photo by Peter Mitchell.

Early stroll. String tied around a streetlight. A pile of twigs like a fascinator museum. The simple beauty of a bus shelter. A yellow and green toy supermarket trolley in a garden. That fence is wearing a discarded jacket.

Screenshot of a photo zine in development. On the front is a Red Rebel with the words Rebellion! and Davenant. The next page has the words: "Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion" Oscar Wilde Opposite is a protester in a V for Vendetta mask holding a placard which says THE ONLY WAR THAT MATTERS IS THE WAR AGAINST THE IMAGINATION ALL OTHER WARS ARE SUBSUMED IN IT

I’ve thought for a long time that photo books have become too expensive, making them inaccessible to many people. So I’m mostly going to give up on them and move to doing high quality zines at an affordable price instead. Rebellion! will be a zine not a book and it’s coming along nicely.

Launched earlier today, my new and second zine, ‘On the road’.

Whilst making work, driving between locations, and sometimes also travelling on planes, trains and boats, I am drawn to the world often speeding by....

50 copies already sold.

www.marcwilson.co.uk/book-print-s...

Yes the printer I’m using for zines produces very high quality prints for this type of publication, and these aren’t for display in the National Gallery or Tate so we have to be realistic about the balance between cost and quality.

I’ve been very impressed with the quality I’ve seen so far

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Next meeting:
🗓️ Mon 16 Mar, 6–8pm
📍Meet in the quad outside Northumberland Building, City Campus, Northumbria University, NE1 8SG
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Early stroll. My slowly disappearing apple. The gate of the empty house has swung open. Birdsong is morning’s ringtone. Light’s bottle is slowly opening. I measure out my life in strolls.

First cup of tea: this is the magic carpet I fly on every day.

Screenshot of a photo zine in development. On the front is a Red Rebel with the words Rebellion! and Davenant. The next page has the words: "Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion" Oscar Wilde Opposite is a protester in a V for Vendetta mask holding a placard which says THE ONLY WAR THAT MATTERS IS THE WAR AGAINST THE IMAGINATION ALL OTHER WARS ARE SUBSUMED IN IT

I’ve thought for a long time that photo books have become too expensive, making them inaccessible to many people. So I’m mostly going to give up on them and move to doing high quality zines at an affordable price instead. Rebellion! will be a zine not a book and it’s coming along nicely.

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Poster with a photo of a Red Rebel against a bright yellow background. The poster has the words: REBELLION! "It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion" Oscar Wilde, 1891 Exhibition 1 June to 31 August 2026 Newcastle City Library 33 New Bridge Street West Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8AX

The Rebellion! exhibition opens in June at Newcastle City Library and will be there for three months. It is an exploration of protest as an essential part of our cultural identity in the face of draconian anti-protest legislation.

Fare dodgers targeted as train ticket refund rules are tightened In a bid to clamp down on ticket fraud that costs the railways millions each year, the government has quietly changed the rules on claiming refunds for unused train tickets.

DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE!
On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules.
Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel.
If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets.
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If photography and an exhibition don’t trigger an emotional reaction from the viewer then we have to ask ourselves what the point of it is. I’ve no idea how this exhibition is going to go down but that’s what makes it exciting.

The exhibition will include the video ‘A Sound of Thunder’ which looks at protest through a number of different lenses and explores the underlying reasons why people protest. Protest is a divisive and polarising subject so I’m expecting strong reactions to the exhibition and video.

Poster with a photo of a Red Rebel against a bright yellow background. The poster has the words: REBELLION! "It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion" Oscar Wilde, 1891 Exhibition 1 June to 31 August 2026 Newcastle City Library 33 New Bridge Street West Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8AX

The Rebellion! exhibition opens in June at Newcastle City Library and will be there for three months. It is an exploration of protest as an essential part of our cultural identity in the face of draconian anti-protest legislation.

ICE protest posting. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 28 February 2026

Artichoke. Photo: Robert Gumpert 14 February 2026

There are some interesting reads and a few shots from my archives. Come see at: robertgumpert.com