The Speakers of Hyde Park – the American and the Socialist

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Another Sunday, another visit to Speakers Corner.  My brother is down visiting at the moment so I took him with me, and luckily I got to use his excellent Sigma 18-50mm f2.8 lens, which is perfect for this sort of photography.  After using the lens today it has [...]

Healthcare in the UK

This is my first ‘political’ post in quite a while, but having read a lot of the rubbish coming out of the American healthcare debate in the last few weeks I wanted to make a few points. In the last few days those opposed to healthcare reform in the US have taken to claiming how [...]

The Speakers of Hyde Park – Part 3

I’m not the only one in my family that enjoys going to Speakers Corner, my brother does as well.  So this past Sunday, during his short visit, we headed to Hyde Park to listen.  I decided to use the opportunity to film some more footage and do a third Speakers Corner video, the result of [...]

So who won the day?

So yesterday I predicted that Gordon Brown was on the way out of Number 10 because of the actions of James Purnell, indeed I even thought he might quit within a week.  Well today i’m not as sure.  While today could certainly not be described as the best day ever for the Prime Minister (far [...]

New Website

For the last week or so I’ve been working on a new website for my photography. Well that website is now up and running, to take a look pop over to photographyandpolitics.com. Of course the new website doesn’t replace this blog, I’ll still be posting here on a regular basis, but not all [...]