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When fascism/totalitarianism comes to Britain it will be in small steps presented as necessary for protecting the English way of life. It will be wrapped up in a flag, greeted

What is there in the @UKLabour offer today that someone could write a speech about that is filled with passionate intensity? What is their core unifying theme? Great and passionate

Labour has only been in power for 17 years out of the last 120 on a socialist ticket. England is not a socialist country and the route to power for

The Fontenelle family at the Poverty Board, Harlem, New York in 1967. Life magazine had sent three photographers to document the living conditions of black people living in the ghettos

David and Whippet Waiting for Salmon to Swim the Stream, Skinningrove, North Yorkshire, 1983 by Chris Killip. Two years later David drowned aged 17 when his fishing boat overturned. What

Easington in 1984 by Keith Pattison. Josie Smith, a retired and disabled miner, is arrested outside his home and his distraught wife tries to stop the police taking him away.

American Gothic, Washington, D.C., 1942 by Gordon Parks. He took this photo after joining the renowned Food Security Administration. FSA director Roy Stryker told Parks he should leave his camera

Much of photography these days has been hijacked by self-important and pretentious people who use flowery language to justify images which are bland and instantly forgettable. If you have to

Children working in a coal mine, Pittston, Pennsylvania, January 1911 by Lewis Hine. He took a whole series of photographs of children working in dangerous environments in America for the

Dear @StMungos and @SteveDouglasCBE do you think it is right that a pregnant woman with two babies who is living in one of your flats keeps having her water turned

Children playing in the road by Vivian Maier. It is impossible to separate the mystery of her as a prolific but totally unknown photographer from how we view her work

Grand Canal and the church of Santa Maria del Salute, Venice in 1955 by Inge Morath. This was the first time she had ever taken her own photos and she