What the government is proposing here is nothing less than cleansing. Possibly the darkest and most frightening legislative proposal in the UK for a decade. My column. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Hope is the thing with feathers. Thai, Sunderland, 2019 #documentary #sunderland ift.tt/2KJuN2r

Steven France telling it.

Richard and Fluffy (and Batman), 2019. ‘It is said about noble figures in old Irish poems - he would give his hawk to any man that asked for it, yet he loved his hawk better than men nowadays love their bride of tomorrow. He would mourn a dog with more g… ift.tt/2LBOZDO

If you had been in Bolsover on December 12th, shivering audibly outside the polling station at the top of the hill, you would have heard the clear sound of anger and rage, of grievances long held and nurtured. It… instagram.com/p/B6GH_YtFSPv/…

Would it be weird if you had a friend who had an unlucky number and was stuck on a number of social media posts relating to these satanic digits and had to urgently post another, say, 5 or so posts because they knew their life would be a complete crapfes… ift.tt/2Ze5Lyw

The trespass trap: this new law could make us strangers in our own land theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Went off all excited to try and ‘help’ with and learn about the art of filmmaking with the guidance of @neil_hall_photo. Came back with, well, quite a lot of photos. 🤦🏻‍♀️ #england #documentaryfilmmaking #documentary ift.tt/392tsxR

This might look like an ad for Pret but it’s an for the little guy in his sleeping bag. If you’re working in London or anywhere right now, he needs your help. A lot of people on the streets have crippling addictions, problems that are not their fault, a … ift.tt/2Wmf5kl

I’ve been encouraged by @andreamantovaniphotography to woman up and share a bit of recent work shot for gaia tripoli and the The New York Times on the coronavirus crisis. This is one from a trip to Manchester when I volunteered all excitedly to go to a city I didn… instagr.am/p/B-r7Tv6HhOR/

In case you’re moaning about the weather this week.

This is a beautifully and appropriately worded piece. The current prison crisis, on top of crisis, has led to the highest recorded levels of suicide, self-harm & personal mutilation, this is alongside worsening conditions caused by hospital delays & poor mental health provision.

"[I]f you told an epidemiologist that there’s a congregate setting where people are living in shared spaces for short periods of time before heading back to their communities, the average epidemiologist would say, ‘Why is that still open?’” Why indeed. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

I want to say a little more about Jimmy Carr’s abhorrent ‘joke’. First, the awful truth. Many hundreds of thousands of Roma and Sinti people were murdered by the Nazis during World War II, in what has become known to the victims’ families as the Porrajmos (the ‘Devouring’).

Britain has a fast-growing community of newcomers: migrants from Hong Kong arriving under a new visa program. We spent time with some of them to see how they're really settling into a new home - and mourning an old one. Here's what we found: nytimes.com/2022/06/04/wor…

A low English sun is creeping in through Tudor windows high up in an ancient York pub, where groaning floorboards that have carried 400 years of life slope violently at near 40 degrees. And in a corner where the last of the evening light almost fails to … instagr.am/p/ChPDB4ho34L/

Some small moments from a big and strangely moving time, for the The New York Times Peak Britain was surely a man in The Queue, where a nation was finally at one with its destiny, calling out ‘Linda! Do NOT bring back porridge’ as poor Linda trudged off to Starbu… instagr.am/p/CivCETDoDNp/

"Why don't you just admit you're favourites for the title?" Arsenal fans:

Notes from Eurovision, for The New York Times, where I was ready as I’ve ever been to make my Swedish pal Maria proud. Within mins of the first semifinal tho, the yawning chasm of lights that opened up in front of us was so shockingly bright I thought I must… instagr.am/p/CsOreenoMKV/