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Davenant 📸
@marcdavenant.bsky.social
Photographer, writer, two time winner of the Portrait of Britain. My book ‘Outsiders’ documenting homelessness is available from Bluecoat Press. My website is https://marcdavenant.com
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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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My photos from the Lakenheath peace camp will be in my Rebellion! exhibition which opens next June in Newcastle.
☮️ "It is important to keep our peace space by the main gate at USAF Lakenheath active."

DYK? The Lakenheath Alliance for Peace is organising monthly peace vigils.

The next vigil is taking place on 29th November - find out more here 👉 buff.ly/XNYw2eV
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Good discussions yesterday about a possible three month exhibition for 2027 which if it comes off is going to be very special. More when it is firmed up.
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Hebertshausen sub camp, Dachau, Germany, 2016.
From 'A Wounded Landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust'.
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Can't wait to get mine. Nice early Christmas present for some folk on here, who know who they are 💘💘💘💘💘
November 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Happy to confirm for anyone who cares that the Rebellion! touring exhibition will be completely AI free. No AI used in image generation, no AI in the written interpretation or the design, and host organisations cannot use anything produced with generative AI in the exhibition space or in promotion.
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The tip of the iceberg I imagine.
BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent.

The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.
November 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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The new version of John Bulmer’s book The North looks fantastic but will only happen if it hits its target on Kickstarter. This is a book which needs to be published, please support it if you can www.kickstarter.com/projects/fru...
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent.

The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Happy to confirm for anyone who cares that the Rebellion! touring exhibition will be completely AI free. No AI used in image generation, no AI in the written interpretation or the design, and host organisations cannot use anything produced with generative AI in the exhibition space or in promotion.
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Port Meadow and Binsey this week in 2024
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I suspect the real reason is to prevent juries from voting with their conscience to acquit climate and peace activists who are being prosecuted for exercising their right to peaceful protest.
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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From the CWS Archive. June 2022 and August 2020.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
My photos from the Lakenheath peace camp will be in my Rebellion! exhibition which opens next June in Newcastle.
☮️ "It is important to keep our peace space by the main gate at USAF Lakenheath active."

DYK? The Lakenheath Alliance for Peace is organising monthly peace vigils.

The next vigil is taking place on 29th November - find out more here 👉 buff.ly/XNYw2eV
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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They’d simply sell and lease back the Island, having loaded the new owners with debt 🤷‍♂️
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The world would be a much better place if everyone involved in private equity was sent to live on a desert island, with no electricity and only raw turnips to eat, for the rest of their natural lives.
The Curse of Private Equity

Asda to raise £568m in sale and leaseback of stores.

Company loaded with debt, cut staffing, wages.

Already sold most of its warehouses and 25 supermarkets in sale and leaseback deals. Asset stripping continues.

Company losing market share.

What next?
Asda to raise £568m in store sell-off as sales continue to fall
Supermarket still losing market share despite effort under Allan Leighton to win over customers with price cuts
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Proud that Gallery 365 will be exhibiting at PhotoNorth 2026. #photonorth2026 #Gallery365
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I’ll believe it when I see it
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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The only way to for the public to see complete Epstein files is to leak it. Do it. Now. Anything else is complicit.
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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The eyes are so haunting
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Urgent: Temperatures are falling, dropping to zero across the country last night. Freezing temperatures can be life threatening for those of us without a safe, warm home to go to.

But you can help. Please, if you can, support Crisis at Christmas today: https://bit.ly/4r7coiu
November 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Today I’ll be doing the first proper day of photography for the Outsiders project since 2022, focusing on long term street homelessness and tent encampments. The situation is much worse than it was and the exhibition must reflect that. Nobody should be sleeping rough in a country as wealthy as ours.
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Tech wythout heart ys harmful.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM