PHIL MAXWELL

Imagine A World Without Mobile Phones

December 21, 2016

Sometimes I think the world is morphing into a giant mobile phone.

Mobile phone in the city of London around 1989

Conversation on Commercial street, London 2006

Mobile texting on Vallance Rd, London 2004

Young man outside a book shop in Dhaka, Bangladesh 2008

City man using a mobile phone, London 2007

Woman using a mobile phone in Stepney, London 2008

Rickshaw driver with passenger using a mobile phone. Dhaka, Bangladesh 2008

Woman with mobile phone. Brick Lane, London 2010

Woman using a mobile phone. Marrakech, 2007

Banani, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2009

Whitechapel Road, London 2009

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Memories of Liverpool

December 20, 2016

Liverpool Anglican Cathedral 1978

Boy riding a bicycle in Liverpool, 1979

Distant view of the Anglican Cathedral. Liverpool late 1970s

Lodge Lane, Liverpool, 1979

Posters, Liverpool 1979

An empty street, Toxteth Liverpool, 1981

Liverpool housing, 1978

Distant view of the Anglican Cathedral. Toxteth, Liverpool late 1970s

Liverpool 1978

Liverpool 8 playground, 1980

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A Shropshire Garden

December 19, 2016

If you are finding the winter months a little depressing here are some photographs of a Shropshire garden I took on a hot summers day earlier this year.

A Shropshire garden 2016

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The Shropshire Hills

On this day in 1989 the Labour Party abandoned its policy on trade union closed shops. At the time Shadow employment secretary Tony Blair said the move was crucial for a sustainable approach from the party to employment. Blair said “We have got to bring our law into line with the rest of Europe.” Liverpool MP Eric Heffer said: “It adds up to a very real retreat as far as our principles are concerned. It is unnecessary because we can win the next election without giving away any of our principles.”

The comments of Tony Blair were welcomed by the Tory Employment secretary Norman Fowler who said employees should be considered on merit and not on their union affiliations. A new government Employment Bill was published during the same week as Labour’s policy change which was designed to ‘help curb unofficial strikes’. Since then workers rights in the UK have all but evaporated.