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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

So, rather than look at the tax avoidance of corporations that make billions in the UK, these wretches want to plunder council workers’ pensions. FFS

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The letter the BBC could send back to Trump - brilliant stuff from @davidallengreen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...

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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump

A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Yesterday, I got my Dog Fix! Having a dog isn’t an option right now though I love dogs. I arrived for a photo job early and, while having coffee, I was made welcome by this beautiful dog. It was a good day.

Spaniel sleeping on the leg of a hotel guest

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

⚠️Three-quarters of UK police forces refuse to say if they even have a contract with Palantir. Read that back. The head of the UK branch of Palantir is Louis Mosely, grandson of British Fascist Oswald Mosely. goodlawproject.org/uk-police-fo...

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UK police forces dodge questions on Palantir | Good Law Project

After Leicestershire Police removed details of a deal with the controversial US spy-tech firm, three quarters of UK police forces refuse to say if they even have a contract with Palantir.

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

A few of my favourite Faces in the Crowd at Rugby World Cup matches… there will be more

A lady with a garland of flowers supporting Samoa at the game against USA in the Rugby World Cup

Two young women supporting the USA in the Rugby World Cup match against Samoa

Though wearing a South Africa football shirt, a supporter for South African women’s rugby team at Franklin’s Gardens in Northampton UK

A woman wearing white sunglasses & wearing a tricolour hat supporting France but also holding a Brazilian flag

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Unless I get lucky for the quarter-finals, this might be my last weekend on the #RugbyWorldCup - we'll see. It's been a privilege to watch teams who’ve travelled across the world give their all & to hear the welcome & appreciation from fans. Safe travels to those heading home #rugbycommunity

Members of the Samoan Women’s Rugby Team after preventing a try by USA

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

A tenet of Fascism is keep repeating lies and people will become so confused about what is the truth that they’ll start to believe them. We all have a responsibility to keep repeating the truth in the face of politically-motivated lying. Don’t just roll your eyes, speak up.

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 04/09/2025

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]

Silhouettes of three people in front of a weathered British flag, with the headline: Misrepresentations around human rights and immigration fuelling calls to quit ECHR, Oxford report finds

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Old fart who (maybe) should know better but… well…

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

We all remember being at school at things getting properly rowdy & out of hand… anarchic, loud & inappropriate… The *that* teacher came in and roared “ENOUGH!” and sensible order was resumed. Where is *that* teacher when we need them most? #fuckdivision #fuckracism #fuckhatred

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

(To be read in the voice of David Attenborough)… The Snowy-Topped Pot-Bellied Photographer in his natural habitat at the #RugbyWorldCup

Fat, old bloke taking photographs at the Rugby World Cup

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

It’s a bit of a standing joke that, when shooting rugby, tries are *always* scored where I am not… until today when ireland played Japan in the Women’s Rugby World Cup…

A rugby player dives over the line to score a try in the Women’s Rugby World Cup

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Former Conservative Attorney General diagnoses the current Conservative Shadow Home Secretary a ‘rabble rouser’ over his comments on trial by jury

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

It strikes me that anything that might (even slightly) dent some millionaire’s profits is deemed socialist (like that’s a bad thing 🙄)…. Anyone taking bets that there’ll be McCarthy-like Unamerican Hearings before September?

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Time was, if you were a proven liar & an habitual spreader of bullshit then you would be shunned and lose any credibility…. We now have bought-and-paid-for media whose only interests are clicks & pleasing their paymasters. Truth & decency no longer matters in public life, it seems.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Booker: He was made to kneel before the authority of the executive… They treated a member of the United States senate violently after he identified himself, dragged him out of a room, threw him upon the ground, and put him in handcuffs

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 09/06/2025

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 04/06/2025

One million excess deaths were linked to deprivation between 2009 and 2020, Michael Marmot told a Royal College of Physicians conference. Marmot calculated 148 000 can be directly linked to austerity measures introduced by the coalition government in 2010 www.bmj.com/content/389/...

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Parasitical corporations urge insurance-based healthcare, governments in the clutch of those who gather data which will be used to deny/delay care when people are in need. The parasites get rich & the rest of us will suffer. They don’t want you healthy, they want your money.

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

It’s good to laugh…and some day it’s laughing at yourself! Last week I had a student with me on work experience. As we packed away I couldn’t resist doing the photographer version of sending the apprentice to the stores for a Long Stand… I asked him to fold up the big backdrop. Continued 1/2

A student folding up a photography backdrop

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

An event for Northampton Town Council celebrate the 125th anniversary of the bandstand. The first photo was early in the day before the park filled & the sun got to work. It reminded me of the Sunday concerts in Harlow where all ages gathered, listened to music & picnics enjoyed #nostalgia

Two people sitting on a park bench waiting for the band to play

A euphonium player in a Panama hat warms up on the bandstand

Ready to start playing, the band await the conductor and a musician sits waiting to play Sweet Caroline from the music in front of her

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

It was a pleasure to be asked to cover the Mayor Making by Northampton Town Council as Cllr Jane Birch became Mayor of Northampton

Mayor of Northampton, Jane Birch and councillors on the steps of the Guildhall

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I'm not saying that Mrs V is mean but.... The cheapest commission ever... A cup of tea!

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

The joys of sport photography: trying (mostly unsuccessfully) to capture the ‘charge down’. Pictures taken during the men’s & women’s Interservice matches Royal Air Force v Royal Navy at Franklin’s Gardens

RAF player leaps to try and block a kick by the Navy scrum half

An out of focus shot showing ‘the shot that got away’. I tried to capture the RAF player blocking a kick by the Navy No 10 and failed!

Trying to capture a rugby player blocking a kick but, while in focus, the faces are obscured.
Another ‘close but no cigar’ photograph

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I need to get out into the early mornings again

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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Starmer's Labour have a HUGE majority, yet we are seeing no: - electoral reform - media reform - action to make the BBC properly independent & apolitical - reversal of NHS outsourcing - renationalisation of key infrastructure & public services - clampdown on lobbying - prosecution of corrupt MPs

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

“Starmer must not trade away our food standards as part of tariff negotiations. We are as indignant about American animal welfare as JDVance seems to be about the control of anti-abortion demonstrations outside UK clinics” So many reasons to focus on the EU, not the US. Letter of the week The Week

Letter of the week
Resisting chlorinated chicken
To The Daily Telegraph

Chlorinated chicken is banned in Britain not because of risks to human health, but because this method of decontamination is required as a consequence of intensive rearing methods, poor animal welfare procedures, and overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in abattoirs and processing plants.
Such low standards, intended to reduce costs, also constitute unfair competition for British farmers.
The issue of hormone-treated beef and dairy cows is similarly misunderstood. American dairy farmers are permitted to use bovine somatotropin (BST), which increases the yield of dairy cows by up to 25%. Udders are 25% heavier, increasing teat damage and production stress, which raises susceptibility to mastitis. The resultant reduction in productive life, perhaps to as few as two lactations, is of scant concern to a Wisconsin farmer who can benefit from the buoyant market in processed cull beef. British farmers are rightly prevented from using BST, and it would be unfair to expect them to compromise their standards in the face of American competition.
There is one effect that may have direct significance for human health: the persistence of BST in milk results in higher levels of insulin-like growth factor-1, which has been implicated in the increase in several cancers and cardiovascular diseases. It is said that pasteurisation destroys these residues, but most cheeses cannot be made from pasteurised milk without further chemical additions, which may be why there are so few distinctive cheeses in America.
Keir Starmer must not trade away our food standards as part of tariff negotiations. We are as indignant about American animal welfare as J.D. Vance seems to be about the control of anti-abortion demonstrations outside UK clinics.
William Swift, retired veterinary surgeon, Chiddingstone, Kent

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

A recent charity shop purchase… excellent music (as you’d expect from Bix Beiderbecke) but the title of this collection of tunes is … somewhat ‘off’ 😁

Cover of a Bix Beiderbecke CD entitled ’Young Man With A Horn’

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Unbelievable. Rachel Reeves is thinking about cutting a tax on US tech giants to appease Trump and his band of billionaires. If anything we should be taxing them more - not less! Agree? Sign today: 38d.gs/techgiantsta...

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Sign the petition: don’t cut taxes for US tech giants!

Trump’s threatening to raise tariffs for UK businesses and Keir Starmer is offering to cut taxes for US tech billionaires. Europe is fighting back - why isn’t the UK? Join me in calling on Keir Starme...

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯! "You journalists need to get your balls back"

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen! Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...

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Put Public Ownership of Water Back on the Table

Privatisation of water isn’t failing - it is the failure. The Government is mid-way through a major review of the water sector. But so far, it has refused to consider a potential solution that’s backe...

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

SCHOOL REPORT Pupil: World Politicians Effort: D- at making a better world but A+ at making your chums £$€ Attainment: You have created anxiety, inequality, prejudice & hatred Teacher comment: While you’ve the skills & resources to do better you selfishly waste these. Extremely disappointed

Flower head gone to seed. Image added for attention

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

As a change from sport (which I love), some dress rehearsal photographs that I took a while ago. There are times when it’s good to ‘skulk’ in the shadows. #theatre #actors #dressrehearsal #publicity #stagephotography

Actors in Victorian clothing. A smiling gentleman in a fancy coat accepting a sweet from a paper bag offered by a lady with a basket

An actor playing a wise old lady leans forward to give urgent advice

Actors in Victorian clothing - a man and woman holding hands in a gentle dance

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I was looking for something else on my phone and came across this from the last boxing gym session I attended #thefighter #intothecage #sportphotography

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Looks over the Big Ditch… You’re not The Land of the Free To Help Yourself To Whatever You Want!

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

A local triathlon in Northamptonshire last Sunday. Everyone thought that the early morning mist would burn off… it turned into fog! A great event organised by #EnduroEvents… smiles all round

A bicycle hanging on a rack in the triathlon transition area

Three triathletes completing the cycling element of the Roade Sprint Triathlon

A triathlete smiling as he undertakes the running element of the Roade Sprint Triathlon. The picture shows that his feet are off the floor as he runs

Despite being the last triathlete on the course, this gentleman completed his triathlon with humour as he mimicked an airplane coming into land

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Spring arrives: Hoorah! In a response to seeing photographers announcing their pictures stating that they were taken on massively expensive kit… these were taken on basic second hand kit Just because you got a Leica doesn’t make me like ‘em 😉

Pink blossom on a largely white background

Pink blossom sown against ivy growing on the tree

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

A fierce first semi-final saw Marlie Packer & Saracens go through to the Premiership Women’s Final and the second semi-final later will be it’s equal. Picture of Marlie with England team-mate Sadia Kabeya after Loughborough Lightning beat Sarries at Franklins Gardens

England team-mates Sadia Kabeya (Loughborough Lightning) and Marlie Packer (Saracens) hug after the final whistle

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

If, 20 years ago, someone had presented a script to Hollywood producers describing the current situation in the US they would probably have been shown the door because it was too far-fetched yet here we are 🤔 Where’s Deadpool when we need him?

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deadpool is wearing a red and black suit and holding two swords .

Alt: deadpool is wearing a red and black suit and holding two swords .

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Interesting exercise… taking photographs of some anthurium #challenging Thank you to #ks_flowers_ 🙏

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Stu Vincent @stuvincentphotos.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Heartbreaking and important… Tech firms need to be accountable

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