For many years @MagnumPhotos has made money from outing abused children as “child prostitutes” — names, towns, recognisable locations.
Some prize-winning images are child porn site faves.
"If anyone reading this is still wondering why so many photographers want to shoot children being abused it’s because @MagnumPhotos made it profitable."
distressing, rigorous work by Benjamin Chesterton @duckrabbitblog 3/
“It is not clear what Alan Harvey was doing in the room photographing what appears to be a child wearing only underwear that he identified as a sex worker.”
Eleven women photographers spoke out to @kristenchick
abt their experiences assisting or being mentored by @MagnumPhotos hero David Alan Harvey—"Some of the women said he targeted women of color, or women who were not from the US"
Andy's arrest comes the day after authoritarian minister for Equalities (yes, Equalities) @KemiBadenoch smeared brilliant journo Nadine White @Nadine_Writes , exposing White to predictable trolling and abuse. 2/
Liz Truss @trussliz played the same dirty trick on @Halima_Begum CEO @RunnymedeTrust, using inflammatory language *in Parliament* that she must have known would expose Begum to trolling, abuse & threats of harm. 3/
Here's David Starkey asserting: "Slavery was not genocide, otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or in Britain would there?"
(via @Louis_Allday ) 1/5
Here's HISTORY TODAY publisher Andy Patterson asserting (TODAY, 2 July 2020) "David Starkey is no longer a member of the History Today editorial advisory board" 2/5
Here's HISTORY TODAY current issue (dated 2 July 2020) listing "David Starkey, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge" as a member of the History Today editorial advisory board 3/5
Despite 64,000 #covid_19 deaths, health minister #MattHancock is delighted horse-racing restarts tomorrow. He’s MP for Newmarket, he’s funded by racing industry. Loves to ride racehorse owned by wife of £5m Tory donor billionaireLord Anthony Bamford 1/
News that horse-racing restarts Monday has appalled public health experts.
But delighted Sir Nicholas Soames, brother to Rupert Soames, CEO ofSerco, selected to run Ukgov #covid_19 tracing service. Churchill’s grandsons, they've kept up the dynasty’s devotion to horse-racing 2/
Sir Nicholas Soames, brother to Rupert Soames, CEO of Serco the company selected to run Ukgov #covid_19 tracing service, was thrilled to bits when Cheltenham Festival went ahead (against public health experts' grave warnings): 3/
2/ One man, aged 77, controls schools for 36,000 children. Philip Harris, worth £300m, has heavily funded the Tories. When he dies, control of “his” schools passes to his wife & sons. These are state-funded schools with no local democractic accountability.
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Big Tory donor Harris, given a peerage by Thatcher, backs #Brexit
He doesn’t like laws that restrict working hours,
he told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme 2yrs ago:
Sickening: if being 'deported in error' to Jamaica, a country you might not have visited in 50 years, UKgov advises:
Watch your wallet,
Put on a local accent,
'try to be "Jamaican"' #Windrush
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Of course brutal racist policy & practice at Home Office didn't start with #Windrush scandal.
Theresa May fought a legal battle to deport a kidney transplant patient to Nigeria regardless of urgent medical advice that this would kill her: @SHINEreportsopendemocracy.net/shinealight/cl…