I assume that the age if consent, the school leaving age, the legal drinking age, the cinema rating system and the age at which you can marry and vote are all going to be lowered to 13: Really, the government have to. They have no choice really. That is, after all, the inference from the decision that a 13 year old has a right to decide whether ( Read more... )

I remember that six years ago I had an argument with the then head of Leeds Mentoring. So much of an argument indeed that I almost got sacked from the school I was working in. I had the temerity to criticise the multi-agency approach to care of children. I argued that all it would do is essentially ensure that nobody would take responsibility. I ( Read more... )

Do yourself a little favour: Get a recording of the Obama victory speech. Store it. And if you ever think that all hope is gone play it ( Read more... )

If McCain happens to win the US Election tomorrow then quite simply he has sold his soul to the devil and the four horsemen of the apocalypse will be saddling up. Either that or the electorate have a been in their bonnet about him being black. That really is the only issue I can see for anything other that a win for Obama. And then everything will ( Read more... )

As you know I love music: It's one of the reasons why I photograph it. Not for the glamour, because there isn't any really. Or the money, because there isn't any. But simply for the passion. And I come across people who play the music with the same passion. Like last week when I met a couple of rather famous people: well famous in the facts that ( Read more... )

I wonder about health and safety: Not in the sense of looking after myself but in terms of the ridiculous rules they now impinge on our everyday lives. And let's be honest here since the increase of legislation we have become neither more safe or healthier it would seem. I went to the top of a car park yesterday. Well I was going to go to the top ( Read more... )

I think I should stop posting on CraigList you know. I keep getting calls asking if I do pornography. I don't but maybe I should it would be money spinning. Except it wouldn't be actually as the only "payment" I seem to be offered is to have my way with girlfriend/wife/husband/boyfriend after I have photographed them being ravaged or taken to " ( Read more... )

I was out photographing a young band last night. An emo band called Broken Summer. It was spoiled though by what can only be described as a blight on society: I wandered outside during the sound check to find one of their fans being pushed around by three chavs for no other reason than he looked different. Now I've been doing a few gigs lately that ( Read more... )

Apparently if the money given to banks to "save" them does not work then the UK will go bankrupt. I'm not sure what this means in all honesty. I'm sure we will be told when it happens. I do know that it will be an increase in poverty that's for sure. So, with some surprise, I am in agreement with David Cameron, the Conservative leader (and lets be ( Read more... )

Thanks for all the positive responses to my homecoming entry. I thought I would follow up on the same sort of theme with my views on television. I simply watch very little on TV now. So little that I am not going to have a television in my new flat. I am going to become televisionless. After all I only really watch one programme at the moment. That ( Read more... )