International Women’s Day (2020)

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Workers have a laugh at the Tate & Lyle factory in Liverpool, 1970. The laughs and good fun carried on into the Torriano Meeting House in March 2020. A revolutionary event with speakers, writers, poets and performers.

BHD (2003)

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March 20th-May 1st 2003 A version of the feature film Black Hawk Down with all evidence of the American characters removed. Edited on imovie during the first Iraq invasion by the USA and a few of their allies. It is … Continue reading

Blonde on top

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Since twenty seventeen each time I go to the shop for groceries I have been slyly taking the opportunity to photograph the top right hand segment of both The Times and The Telegraph. I have noticed that there have been … Continue reading

Marx 200

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An evening to celebrate Karl Marx. Two hundred years old today

My trip to Glasgow

Tom Hickmore/Nice media

Nice Media, a Brighton digital media company surprised me one morning, they asked me if I would tell them one of my stories to camera. It was a way of trying out different formats for interviews. For me good way … Continue reading

“The Tigers of Wrath

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are wiser than the horses of instruction.” William Blake’s quote seems to fit neatly as a description of the life of Mikhail Bakunin. Wandering philosopher and misfit activist.