Rob Hudson

A bronze plaque was attached to bare rock to mark the occasion, inscribed with the message “A letter to the future”.
“This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it”.

A funeral ceremony was performed for the glacier at which about 100 people attended, including Iceland’s prime minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir and the former UN human rights commissioner Mary Robinson.

In 2019 an Icelandic glacier was declared dead. The Okjökull glacier had shrunk so much that it had stopped moving, it was essentially just a puddle of ice.
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Sounds like Las Vegas is the first entire city to suffer enshittification. Plus, of course, Trump policies frightening away tourists. It’s in a doom loop.

A black and white photograph of my daughter. The image was taken on a large format camera using out of date instant film - the film has many problems but I also had a problem with light leaks from my bellows - hence the burst of light. The girl is in a prom dress (she was on her way to a makeshift prom as the original one by the school was cancelled several times due to covid) and standing in the garden - there is a hill behind her. Her dress looks like polka dot but is actually full of strawberries. There is a burst of light to the right hand side and a tree encroaching just above.

A black and white photograph of a landscape - there is a fence dividing the image with a tree behind it and slightly to the left. It is a very foggy day and this is reflected in the sky. There is a streak on the image - looks like smoke rising - the is the out of date film where there are problems with the emulsion. The image was taken on a 4x5 camera.

From my Home series

Portraits of family life here on the North Pennines using out of date Fuji instant 4x5 film - documenting life as the children & I navigate their teenage years and life living in the remote countryside.

Everything is about to go tits up.

How is this not a coup? It meets the dictionary definition.

Including the current government.

Strange times. First day of jury service, largely uneventful. Discharged early and sent home after a 2 hour 15 minute lunch break. Then on the way back I could have sworn I saw Bamber Gascoigne cycle past me in the park. And I know he passed away three years ago. But, but…!

It also made me think that I really should assert my desire for a proper death with no immortality, digital or otherwise.

I welcome the worms.

Digital resurrection: fascination and fear over the rise of the deathbot Ozzy Osbourne appeared as an AI-generated image at a recent Rod Stewart concert, prompting questions about how the ghoulish phenomenon will affect grieving

As a lifelong fan of nominative determinism, I greatly appreciated one of the interviewees for this piece is called Elaine Kasket.
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I can’t help thinking that they know they’ll never get convictions, but like Thatcher they’re never happier than when they have an enemy within.

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Police arrest 365 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London Met officers and other UK forces form ‘significant presence’ in largest protest since group was proscribed as terrorist organisation

Are they really going to try to jail these people for 14 years on terrorism charges for holding a piece of paper? It would seem likely to fall apart when it gets to a jury trial. There’s going to be some very red faces in government.

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Confirming my suspicion that the New Statesman is a bit useless.

Oh that’s a thought… I’m assuming was it your own not AI-BRIAN?

People get paid to write this stuff? You could almost call it a form of commentariat grift.

Why ‘grifter’ has become the go-to political insult of 2025 | Anoosh Chakelian These days it’s not enough to disagree with opponents – it seems we have to accuse them of being con artists too, says Britain editor of the New Statesman, Anoosh Chakelian

Slightly pointless comment making the argument that we disparage our politicians with this dreadfully insulting term because there’s so many of them actually deserving it.

So it’s not an insult if it’s an accurate description.
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Ukraine will not give up land, Zelenskyy warns ahead of Trump-Putin meeting Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismisses remarks by US president, who said end to war will involve ‘some swapping of territories’ before announcing meeting

There’s another attempt at a Trump/Putin stitch up incoming. It’s as if they’ve learned nothing.
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A disconcertingly startling image of the banality of evil from the ever excellent Marc Wilson.

If we don’t have experience or knowledge of nature we’re less likely to care. Yet we’re still mutually dependent on nature and nature on us. Where does that lead?

Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds Prof Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies

The decline in nature connectedness in the past two hundred years is perhaps not surprising as we urbanised. More crucial is intergenerational loss of nature connection, parents failing to pass it on to their children.

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I knew there had to be a Jeremy Clarkson connection.

Wasn’t so much expecting the right wing Labour link.

An accurate representation would be the traditional photographic definition of success, rarely the transformative, imagination opening, ghost in the machine.

A more successful (or less successful depending on your perspective) attempt at a multiple exposure self portrait from the same day. It depends on our definition of success, in truth they are also multiple.

Thanks Andrew, suspect there’ll be some new colours next.

& evening nothing is decided - the sky sends light & dark, & flicks between moods - nook of the window a chrysalis is anchored (peacock butterfly, you think), bright markings as though a light lit within, some kind of spell underway

‘Aggressively provocative’: first screening of Saltburn director’s Wuthering Heights gets mixed reaction An early test showing of the forthcoming Brontë adaptation starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi reveals film features horse rein sex, suggestive egg yolks and necrophile nuns

Speaking at the Sands film festival in Scotland, the film’s casting director Cochrane said there was “no need to be accurate” as the source material is “just a book”.
I don’t think she’s met any Wuthering Heights fans.
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If I told you that it’s an early attempt at a multiple exposure self portrait, you probably wouldn’t believe me. Experimentation can (sometimes) be mind expanding. Not to mention mind boggling.