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The Outsiders touring exhibition on homelessness and substandard housing opens next at The Hub at St Mary’s in Lichfield in March and the book of the project can be bought from Bluecoat Press via this link …

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Maybe I’m daft but I can’t help wondering how it is that in the past the country could afford to give people a grant to go to university, we had final salary pension schemes, retirement from 60 years old, an NHS that worked, GP visits at home, affordable housing, hundreds of

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The number of people in the creative industries who are from a working class background has fallen by 50% since 1970 to under 8% today. It explains why so little of what we see in the arts is viewed through a genuine working class lens.

Huge decline of working class people in the arts reflects fall in wider society

Study shows the proportion of musicians, writers and artists with working-class origins has shrunk by half since the 1970s

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If any MP doesn’t attend Parliament, vote or do surgeries for a set period, without a good reason such as illness or maternity, then then it should automatically trigger a by-election. Retweet if you agree.

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London from St Paul's Cathedral as it looked in August 1942 by the late Wolf Suschitzky. It’s easy to forget just how precious peace in Europe is.

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Hotdog seller, New York in 1963, a glorious Kodachrome by Evelyn Hofer. I love this photograph.

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So the prime suspect in the Sycamore Gap tree felling appears to be a farmer and ex-lumberjack who had a grudge against the National Trust. What a surprise.

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It is day 18 of Richard Ratcliffe’s hunger strike outside the Foreign Office. I promised him that I would do my best to make the photo I took of him today go viral. It is an intolerable situation for him to be in. Please retweet if you can and help to #FreeNazanin @FreeNazanin

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London in 1975, a glimpse into a lost world by David Granick. If you are a young photographer remember to photograph the ordinary things around you, the people, places and events we all take for granted. Eventually time will make those photographs extraordinary.

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What nobody seems to be mentioning when it comes to #Uxbridge is that the Tory candidate ran on an anti-ULEZ expansion ticket when it was actually Grant Shapps who made the ULEZ expansion a requirement of the TFL funding agreement. Doublespeak.

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The first time I visited @kewgardens the price of entry was one 2p coin which you used to open a turnstile. Now it’s out of reach for anyone who is struggling during a cost of living crisis. The result of having a society where everything is about profit rather than social value.

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Woman living near Ironbridge Power Station eating by candlelight during power cuts in 1972 by David Bagnall.

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thousands of new council houses, we owned the public utilities and all the time while spending huge amounts on defence during the Cold War. Where has all of our money gone?

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All of this fuss about the Rwanda deal which has cost us £200m so far and nobody seems to have spotted that Rwanda has said they can only take a maximum of 200 asylum seekers. There are 140,000 waiting to be processed. It isn’t a solution it’s a scam.

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London in 1975, a glimpse into a lost world by David Granick. If you are a young photographer remember to photograph the ordinary things around you, the people, places and events we all take for granted. Eventually time will make those photographs extraordinary.

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Glasgow in 1980 by Raymond Depardon. He was commissioned to photograph the city for the Sunday Times but his photographs were considered too bleak to publish at the time. This is a wonderful photograph.

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Hong Kong by master photographer Fan Ho.

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‘Irish Traveller Family’, Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland, 1954 a fascinating Kodachrome by Inge Morath. I love everything about this photo.

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If you give up your time volunteering to give out food at a homeless shelter then that is admirable. If you take a camera crew with you and make it all about you then that is contemptible and exploitative. More so if you have the power to end homelessness but have chosen not to.

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The Sun should have been closed down years ago.

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Unemployed lumber worker with social security number tattooed on his arm goes with his wife to the bean harvest, Oregon in 1939 by Dorothea Lange. They both look like film stars.

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When looking for who to blame for the state of this country people conveniently forget that from 1945 to 1997 Labour only had a working majority for 11 years during which they created the NHS and the welfare state and built huge amounts of social housing. Britain hasn’t voted in

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Mounted police attacking a female bystander during the miners’ strike, Orgreave, June 1984 by John Harris. The police had just beaten a miner terribly and she had taken a photo so they attacked her. They later claimed this photo was doctored and that it didn’t happen.

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I’ll never understand why so many people idolise Thatcher. She was a cruel psychopath and a megalomaniac who sold everything, smashed everything, squandered the money and set the country on the path to where it is now, broken and in terminal decline.

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Protest marchers on the Jarrow Crusade, a demonstration march by unemployed men from Jarrow in 1936 who walked to London to demand the right to work. Under the government’s new law, which bans walking protests, they would all now be arrested and imprisoned for 12 months.

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In six years of listening to, interviewing and photographing people who were experiencing homelessness it never once occurred to me to ask if they were in business or what they had planned for the weekend. John’s plans were mostly around not being beaten up, robbed or urinated on

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Girl with Bicycle, Dublin in 1966, a glorious Kodachrome by Evelyn Hofer. I love everything about this photo.

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A row of coal miners' houses with no windows to the street, Halifax, 1937 by Bill Brandt. Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

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‘Is this left wing economic establishment in the room with you now?’

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Wallsend in 1963 by Colin Jones. If you are a young photographer who is just starting out remember to photograph the ordinary things in life, eventually time will make them extraordinary.

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Thames Water should be allowed to go bankrupt, its debts should not be serviced and its investors should lose everything. An administrator could keep the service going and it could then be nationalised with no debt for a peppercorn. We should not be bailing these grifters out.

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"Thames Water’s parent company, Kemble Water Finance, said it would be unable to repay a £190m debt that is due at the end of April." As my Irish mother would have said "Hell roast them".

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Stonehenge under snow, 1947 by Bill Brandt. This is easily the best photo of Stonehenge that I have ever seen.

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A truly remarkable aerial view of Edinburgh in 1920 by Alfred G. Buckham (1879-1956). He used to tie one leg to the seat to stop him falling out of the plane when he stood up to take his photos.

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Stonehenge under snow, 1947 by Bill Brandt. This is easily the best photo of Stonehenge that I have ever seen.

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Lonely pub, Manchester by John Bulmer.

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A truly remarkable aerial view of Edinburgh in 1920 by Alfred G. Buckham (1879-1956). He used to tie one leg to the seat to stop him falling out of the plane when he stood up to take his photos.

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I can’t think of a single thing about Britain that is better now than it was thirteen years ago when the Tories came to power. Not one.

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Unemployed lumber worker with social security number tattooed on his arm goes with his wife to the bean harvest, Oregon in 1939 by Dorothea Lange. They both look like film stars.

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A man walks towards the steelworks in Hartlepool in 1963 by Don McCullin. Industrial scenes like this had a grim majesty to them. I love everything about this photo, it is a masterful capture of a bygone age.

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Why does a country with no risk of tsunamis, major earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes or other extreme weather events need an emergency alert system? And who got the contract?

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We stopped weeding completely a few years ago and the garden is now mostly wildflowers. We never use insecticide or weed killer. The snails eat the plants & the thrushes eat the snails. It’s full of bees & insects & easy to do. I never liked ordered gardens they aren’t natural.

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Here’s why we should stop weeding. Learn to love our dandelions and brambles | Alys Fowler

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London in 1975, a glimpse into a lost world by David Granick. If you are a young photographer remember to photograph the ordinary things around you, the people, places and events we all take for granted. Eventually time will make those photographs extraordinary.

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Hong Kong by master photographer Fan Ho.

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Girl with Bicycle, Dublin in 1966, a glorious Kodachrome by Evelyn Hofer. I love everything about this photo.

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Newcastle in 1963 by Colin Jones. I love everything about this photograph

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Mother and child living in slum housing, Britain in 1968 by Nick Hedges. Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

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A man walks towards the steelworks in Hartlepool in 1963 by Don McCullin. Industrial scenes like this had a grim majesty to them. I love everything about this photo, it is a masterful capture of a bygone age.

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Gravediggers, Dublin, 1966 by Evelyn Hofer. I cannot imagine a more perfect composition for this photograph.

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‘Simon Being Taken out to Sea for the First Time since His Father Drowned’, Skinningrove, North Yorkshire in 1983 by Chris Killip. It became a weekly ritual for him, done to prevent him becoming afraid of the sea as that is where the community earned their living.

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Woman with pram, Consett in 1974 by Don McCullin

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Glasgow in 1980 by Raymond Depardon. He was commissioned to photograph the city for the Sunday Times but his photographs were considered too bleak to publish at the time. This is a wonderful photograph.

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The Endurance trapped in the ice, lit by flares for this night photo by Frank Hurley.

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A magnificent Kodachrome of New York in 1964 by Evelyn Hofer. Like a scene from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.

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London in 1975, a glimpse into a lost world by David Granick. If you are a young photographer remember to photograph the ordinary things around you, the people, places and events we all take for granted. Eventually time will make those photographs extraordinary.

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Glasgow in 1980 by Raymond Depardon. He was commissioned to photograph the city for the Sunday Times but his photographs were considered too bleak to publish at the time. This is a wonderful photograph.

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New York in the snow by Saul Leiter. He said of his work “I may be old-fashioned but I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty – a delight in the nice things in the world. And I don’t think one should have to apologize for it.”

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Woman living near Ironbridge Power Station eating by candlelight during power cuts in 1972 by David Bagnall.

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Lonely pub, Manchester by John Bulmer.

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Girl with Bicycle, Dublin in 1966, a glorious Kodachrome by Evelyn Hofer. I love everything about this photo.

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Hotdog seller, New York in 1963, a glorious Kodachrome by Evelyn Hofer. I love this photograph.

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terminal decline and why the future looks so bleak for younger generations who shouldn’t be having to pay for the greed and excess of Thatcher and her ideologues. It’s profoundly unfair.

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The points about the change in demographics and in university attendance are well made but don’t explain why we are where we are. You just have to look at other countries to see how bad things are here. We have one of the worst pensions in Europe, the highest taxes for 70 years,

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‘Irish Traveller Family’, Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland, 1954 a fascinating Kodachrome by Inge Morath. There are so many stories in this photograph.

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some of the highest levels of wealth inequality anywhere in the world, the highest levels of child poverty for decades, comparatively poor education outcomes and everything in this country is broken. It’s what happens when a country is run to maximise profits rather than to

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Two boys and a Chopper bike in the mining village of Holmewood, Derbyshire in 1973 by Don McPhee.

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Charing Cross Road in 1937 by the late Wolf Suschitzky and the same scene in January 2020 by me - with the same tree.

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Street Corner at Worlds End, London, 1954, a glorious Kodachrome by Inge Morath.

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A cathedral of light - Grand Central Terminal in New York as photographed by John Collier in 1941.

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improve the wellbeing of its citizens. The only thing they haven’t sold off is the NHS and that’s on the brink of collapse. There were no halcyon days in the past but by virtually every measure Tory ideologies applied since 1979 are one of the main reasons why this country is in

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RIP Colin Jones, one of the best photographers of his generation.

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A magnificent Kodachrome of New York in 1964 by Evelyn Hofer. Like a scene from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.

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Girl with Bicycle, Dublin in 1966, a glorious Kodachrome by Evelyn Hofer. I love everything about this photo.

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She was here again last night this time teaching her cubs to hunt, running along with food in her mouth and making them snatch it from her at full pelt. I didn’t know they did that.

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The London Underground in 1952 by Bert Hardy, complete with wooden floors, lampshades and a cigarette.

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Brent Alpha oil rig, awaiting dismantling on Teeside last Thursday, all 17,000 tonnes of it.

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Police smashing a woman in the face with a shield, Poll Tax protest, central London, March 1990 by Paul Mattsson.

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London in 1954 by Marc Riboud. A Giles cartoon brought to life.

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Stonehenge under snow, 1947 by Bill Brandt. This is easily the best photo of Stonehenge that I have ever seen.

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A couple dancing at the Be-Bop Cellar, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, #Paris , 1951 by Robert Doisneau. Put on your red shoes and dance the blues... #BlueMonday

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The Lusetti Family, Luzzara, Italy in 1953 by Paul Strand. This has to be one of the best group photographs ever taken.

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Heard some great news today about Brian from the Outsiders project. After 30 years of sleeping rough and 40 years of addiction he is now clean of drugs, housed and happy with his two dogs. No longer has to sell the Big Issue and walks his dogs every day. There is hope after all.

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Girl with Bicycle, Dublin in 1966, a glorious Kodachrome by Evelyn Hofer. I love everything about this photo.

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Glasgow in 1980 by Raymond Depardon. He was commissioned to photograph the city for the Sunday Times but his photographs were considered too bleak to publish at the time. This is a wonderful photograph.

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A magnificent Kodachrome of New York in 1964 by Evelyn Hofer. Like a scene from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.

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A man walks towards the steelworks in Hartlepool in 1963 by Don McCullin. Industrial scenes like this had a grim majesty to them. I love everything about this photo, it is a masterful capture of a bygone age.

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Derry in 1971 by Don McCullin. "I left school at the age of fifteen, couldn’t read and write properly, suffered terribly from dyslexia, which got me a lot of hidings from schoolmasters. I have a problem with words and yet I have an amazing pair of eyes."

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The London Underground in 1952 by Bert Hardy, complete with wooden floors, lampshades and a cigarette.

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Margaret Bourke-White taking a photograph from the Chrysler Building, New York c.1934. Photo by Oscar Graubner.

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The Lusetti Family, Luzzara, Italy in 1953 by Paul Strand. This has to be one of the best group photographs ever taken.

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‘Irish Traveller Family’, Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland, 1954 a fascinating Kodachrome by Inge Morath. I love everything about this photo.

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Newcastle in 1963 by Colin Jones. I love everything about this photograph.

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Oh dear @LordAshcroft blocked me for pointing out his rank hypocrisy over Rayner’s alleged minuscule tax issue when compared with his major one.

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I often think about the man who emptied our gas meter when we were living in a slum in Forest Gate in 1982. He looked around then handed us a gigantic bag of 50p pieces saying “f*ck them you need this more than they do”. The bag got us through that entire winter.

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Wallsend in 1963 by Colin Jones. If you are a young photographer who is just starting out remember to photograph the ordinary things in life and photograph them well, eventually time will make those photographs extraordinary.

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Battersea Power Station in 1936 by Bill Brandt from his famous series of night photographs of London. This is a truly wonderful photograph.

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Woman with pram, Consett in 1974 by Don McCullin

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Two contrasting faces of Britain in 1953. Men going to and from work in the City of London and in Caerau, Wales. Photos by Robert Frank.

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'Girl holding kitten', London. 1960 by Bruce Davidson. Davidson considered this to be his best photograph.

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A cathedral of light - Liverpool Street station, London, 1952 by Harry Todd.

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If the anti-vaxxers had been around to this extent back in the day smallpox and polio would still be commonplace. Walk through any Victorian cemetery and look at the ages of the children on the gravestones then tell me vaccines are evil. #LeaveOurKidsAlone

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