ON THE ROLE OF MPs
The role of the MP is key to any government’s success. In theory at least, they should be the conduit for information from the front line - the population. The role is complex, wide-ranging and FULL-TIME. I have observed in many important parliamentary debates that benches are near-empty with the Labour [...]

Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable [...]

“Meanwhile Britain remains a mess. There was a housing crisis, incomes were stagnating, adult social care was hardly functioning, and the Union itself was under strain. We hadn’t invested suffficiently in research or eduction or infrastructure, or how to respond to a world in which AI and robots would replace millions of existing jobs. Our [...]

The UK is not without its floaters and chief amongst them is Mr Johnson who as head puppet of the far-right Brexit brigade (was he promised the leadership as his reward?) led the campaign with lies, deceit and false promises. At one recent point I felt we were on the edge of the abyss but [...]

we were only aware
of the extermination of the hundreds.
Does that make us any the less guilty?
But if we didn’t know,
it was because we didn’t want to know.
“We succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.”
Why did we succeed, Your Honor?
What about the rest of the world?
Did it not hear the words
of Hitler’s broadcasts all over the world?
Germany alone [...]

Below is part three of Mikhael Subotzky’s latest ‘Sticky-Tape Transfer’ series, in which he physically deconstructs images by gently lifting pigment from inkjet-print photographs, creating new arrangements that subvert their original presentations.

Sticky-Tape Transfer 64 - Jacaranda | Hermanus, Part 3 of 3 © Mikhael Subotzky / Magnum Photos
From Jim Goldberg is a collage of his [...]