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Xmas Campaign To Save Liverpool Women’s Hospital

December 25, 2016

Last Wednesday scores of NHS supporters gathered outside the Liverpool Women’s Hospital for a seasonal singalong designed to let the NHS privatisers know that they are carrying on with their campaign. Across the country people are fighting back for the NHS and for maternity care.

Fighting to keep the Liverpool Women's Hospital open, 2016

Fighting to keep the Liverpool Women’s Hospital open, 2016

Lots of anti-cuts campaigners supported the event. 2016

These two supporters of the campaign were both born in the Women’s Hospital, 2016.

Singing to save the Women's Hospital, 2016.

Singing to save the Women’s Hospital, 2016.

The event was supported by the GMB Union, 2016.

The event was supported by the GMB Union, 2016.

Singing to save the Liverpool Women’s hospital, 2016.

Singing to save the Liverpool Women's hospital, 2016.

Singing to save the Liverpool Women’s hospital, 2016.

Singing to save the Liverpool Women’s hospital, 2016.

Two supporters enjoying the music, 2016.

Two supporters enjoying the music, 2016.

Singing to save the Liverpool Women's hospital, 2016.

Singing to save the Liverpool Women’s hospital, 2016.

Two supporters before the music began, 2016.

Two supporters before the music began, 2016.

Two supporters before the music began, 2016.

A NHS campaigner outlines the case for retaining the hospital on its present site, 2016.

A NHS campaigner outlines the case for retaining the hospital on its present site, 2016.

Singing to save the Liverpool Women's hospital, 2016.

Singing to save the Liverpool Women’s hospital, 2016.

Singing to save the Liverpool Women's hospital, 2016.

Singing to save the Liverpool Women’s hospital, 2016.

Singing to save the Liverpool Women's hospital, 2016.

Singing to save the Liverpool Women’s hospital, 2016.

Liverpool Women's hospital, 2016.

Liverpool Women’s hospital, 2016.

The campaigns banner, 2016.

The campaigns banner, 2016.

empire is said to be interested in the hospital, 2016.

The Virgin health empire is said to be interested in the hospital, 2016.

Liverpool Women's hospital, 2016.

Liverpool Women’s hospital, 2016.

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Deliveroo Delivers Inequality

December 24, 2016

It is now difficult to walk anywhere in London without seeing cyclists pedaling furiously to deliver take away food to customers. In Victorian times servants were kept downstairs to serve their employers; today they travel the streets exhausted without even receiving an hourly fee. If they are waiting to make a delivery they don’t get paid. Riders can be waiting for up to an hour for a delivery without getting paid a penny. Last month DELIVEROO food couriers gathered in London to discuss a plan to force the company to offer better workers’ rights. Workers in north London are demanding union recognition, inspired by the recent landmark employment tribunal ruling against private vehicle hire company Uber. In a test case brought by general union GMB, the tribunal panel invoked Shakespeare and Milton in a withering judgement last month, throwing out Uber’s claim that it was merely a technology company. It was ruled that Uber drivers were workers rather than self-employed contractors. The judgement could trigger sweeping changes across the so-called “gig economy.” Precarious workers could win access to the national minimum wage and holiday pay because of the ruling, which Uber is now appealing against.

Delivery cyclists in London have become a symbol of a city deeply divided between the rich and the poor.

Deliveroo delivery 2016

Deliveroo delivery 2016

Deliveroo delivery 2016

Deliveroo delivery 2016

Deliveroo delivery 2016

Deliveroo delivery 2016

Deliveroo worker collects food for delivery delivery 2016

Deliveroo worker collects food for delivery 2016

Deliveroo delivery 2016

Deliveroo delivery 2016

Delivery worker waits for a delivery instruction 2016

Delivery worker waits for a delivery instruction 2016

Deliveroo delivery 2016

Deliveroo delivery 2016

Deliveroo delivery 2016

Deliveroo delivery 2016

Delivery worker waits for a delivery instruction 2016

Delivery worker waits for a delivery instruction 2016

Deliveroo delivery 2016

Deliveroo delivery 2016

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I’m A Second Hand Shopper

December 23, 2016

I can only get excited about shopping if I’m buying stuff in a market or a ‘second hand’ or charity shop.

Sam my nieghbour

Sam outside his second hand shop in Cheshire street. London early 1980s

Brick Lane clothes for sale

New clothes for sale, Brick Lane. London 2009

Bananas on Brick Lane

A street trader takes a break and greets a friend on Brick Lane. London 1983

Pineapples for sale in Dhaka, 1994

Pineapples for sale in Dhaka, Bangladesh 1994

Selling vegetables on Brick Lane

Vegetables for sale on Brick Lane. London 1983

Woman selling clothes on Brick Lane, 2009

Selling second hand clothes on Brick Lane. London 2009

Bishopsgate goods yard suitcase sale

Bishopsgate goods yard suitcase sale. London 2001

Clothes for sale

Clothes for sale, Brick Lane. London 2008

Teapot in Sclater Street

Boy examining a small teapot at the Sclater Street market. London 1987

Boy looking after vegetable stall, Chittagong 2008

Boy looking after vegetable stall on the street. Chittagong, Bangladesh 2008

Aldgate East paper sellers, 1987

Aldgate East paper sellers. London 1987

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Waiting

December 22, 2016

I spend a lot of time just waiting for the photograph.

Whitechapel Station c.1984

Whitechapel Station, London 1984

Bus stop, Mile End 2009

Bus stop. Mile End, London 2009

Whitechapel Station, London 1984

Betting shop Roman road, 2004

Bus stop. Roman road, London 2004

Whitechapel Station, London 1984

Whitechapel Station, London 2005

Betting shop, Whitechapel road, 1985

Betting shop. Whitechapel road, London 1985

Bus stop, Whitechapel

Bus stop. Whitechapel, London 2009

Brick Lane c.1987

Brick Lane, London 1987

Bus stop, Bethnal Green Rd 2008

Bus stop, Bethnal Green Rd, London 2008

Portrait of a lady at Bishopsgate opposite Liverpool street station

A woman looking out a window. Bishopsgate 1989

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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

Mobile phone in the city of London around 1989

Woman with mobile phone 2006

Conversation on Commercial street, London 2006

Mobile texting on Vallance Rd, 2004

Mobile texting on Vallance Rd, London 2004

Mobile phone in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Young man outside a book shop in Dhaka, Bangladesh 2008

City man using a mobile phone

City man using a mobile phone, London 2007

Woman using a mobile phone

Woman using a mobile phone in Stepney, London 2008

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

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

Woman with mobile phone, Brick Lane

Woman with mobile phone. Brick Lane, London 2010

Marrakech, 2007

Woman using a mobile phone. Marrakech, 2007

Banani, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2009

Whitechapel Road, London 2009

Whitechapel Road, London 2009

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