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Remembering Thomas Hoepker (1936-2024) |
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Thomas Hoepker. © René Burri / Magnum Photos
Remembering Thomas Hoepker (1936-2024)
Gifted a camera by his grandfather as a boy, Thomas Hoepker had an interest in photography from the age of 14. Born in Munich in 1936, he studied art history and archeology at university and worked as a photographer for Münchner Illustrierte and Kristall between [...]
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On Misinformation |
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Like millions of football fans around the world, I have been watching the European Football Championship. The number of footballers feigning injury from a harmless and legal tackle is increasing exponentially. And they can be quite convincing with their animated movements and facial expressions. Sometimes this play-acting can end up with the target opponent receiving [...]
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Politics - Who To Trust? |
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So at last the UK Conservative government has called the election, after several years of losing the trust of the UK population and after many expensive, incompetent mistakes, and five different prime ministers over fourteen years. But who to entrust your vote with? If you watch the various interviews and ‘new policies’ you might, like [...]
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The 76 Year Catastrophe |
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The Gaza And West Bank Context
The unremitting slaughter and destruction being perpetrated by the Israeli army and its governmental leaders on Gaza and The West Bank is unprecedented, even in the context of Palestine’s long, complex and troubled past. What is happening now harks back to 1948 and the confiscation of lands and homes from [...]
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Politics Is Failing |
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“MPs are often proud of their records in government and their roles in parliament, and many will be hurt that I have criticised things which they valued deeply. Some will feel I am unfair, bitter and ungrateful. To which I can only answer that our government and Parliament, which one had a reasonable claim to [...]
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SHIT FLOATS |
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“People are becoming less and less sane. They need less truth and are more incapable of distinguishing it and more easily satisfied with lies.” P.D. Ouspensky
A dear friend of mine from Yorkshire told me about a famous local saying - Shit Floats. It is one of the most succinct, descriptive and accurate phrases I’ve heard [...]
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