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1 year
Self-portrait, Berlin (1933) Photo by Marianne Breslauer #photography #blackandwhitephotography
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Somewhere in Las Vegas, 1957 – Photo by Elliott Erwitt #photography #photographers
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@secrettory12 @JuliaHB1 Hartley-Brewer...like someone with an O level in art telling Michelangelo he's doing it wrong.
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@mrhenrymorris Johnson's wearing a 36" trouser for a 30" leg and Sunak's wearing a 24" trouser for a 28" leg
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@BorisJohnson_MP I suspect you'll be having one during PMQs tomorrow
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5 years
@Tony_Robinson the Corbyn fan club cheering whenever long-standing members, or people who gave Labour their votes for decades, decide to leave is so utterly puerile
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@bmay I used to think we were losing the ability to empathise in this country - but I’ve learned that millions of Brits never had it.
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Coffee Break, Detroit (1972) Photo by Dave Jordano #photography #blackandwhite
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@MichaelTakeMP First day back at school…
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@GrimArtGroup Love John Bulmer’s work. Mill Girls, Elland, Yorkshire, 1965
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@SkyNews If Boris Johnson starts throwing money around every time he's been caught out we're gonna be millionaires this time next year
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@RealEmirHan One of Mary Ellen Mark's fantastic images of Marlon Brando
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@implausibleblog Hoyle’s an insufferable little clown. A colossal downgrade from the likes of Boothroyd and Bercow.
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Florida (1978) Photo by Joel Meyerowitz #photography
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@davemacladd my money's on Lord Frost to knock out Lord Frost in the 3rd
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Berlin Wall (1982) Photo by Harry Benson #photography #history
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@BBCNews I’m here for the non-farmers who will explain how this fellow’s doing it wrong and should export his beetroot to China
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Jackson Pollock at work [1950] Photo by Rudy Burckhardt #photography #art #artists
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From Route 66 Motels (1973) Photo by John Schott #photography #blackandwhitephotography
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2 years
@secrettory12 Nandy put Bakers giblets on the desk and mashed them to a fine paste in front of a tv audience.
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@mrjamesob I personally decided Brexit was a bad idea once I'd drawn up a list of the people who thought it was a good idea
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Polling Station, Manchester (1974) Photo by Kevin Holt #70s #photography
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@SkyNews Chris Philip - just another Tory MP selling their own soul on live tv to save Pfeffel.
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@carryonkeith I’m glad he wasn’t there. I’d rather our youngsters had positive role models like the Lionesses to focus on. That big lump Pfeffel can do one.
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@HorrorHammer1 Eager young cub scouts earning their bushcraft badges.
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3 years
I see Timmy Mallet trending and assumed he was the latest recruit for Andrew Neil's GB News
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4 years
@damocrat @Piethagoram refugees arriving on UK beaches don't add up to a hill of beans compared to the problems we face - but the Tories know it will have the xenophobes spitting sausage roll crumbs at the telly
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Central Park (1960) Photo by Neil Libbert #photography
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5 years
'PM's latest Brexit proposals cannot work,' DUP says
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Room 110, Holiday Inn, Brainerd, Minnesota (7/11/73) Photo by Stephen Shore #photography #photographers
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2 years
@Number10cat They’ll have school kids singing a song for our glorious leader in assembly next. Who do these people think they are?
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4 years
@alisonkatebr More than half the people who looked after my father at home for a short while were from Eastern Europe. One was a fully qualified paramedic from Romania. They were wonderful people who also took time out during their visits to make sure we were okay.
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6 years
@TomLondon6 @jeremycorbyn Einstein, Attlee and Orwell would most likely agree that Corbyn is effing useless and Labour would do better with a hat stand in charge
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@mrjamesob @helmut_herberth Mark Francois was so much nicer when he was handing out pencils on Crackerjack!
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@britainelects @KantarTNS Meanwhile in Corbyn land.....
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@johnharris1969 @Marcus_Aure1ius @rafaelbehr Watched it live the other day and found myself sitting up straighter as Rafael got into his stride. Top drawer stuff.
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from the "Variety" series, #7 (1983) Photo by Nan Goldin #photographers #photography
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@Ottojizzmark Eat Out and Die Another Day
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@SkyNews I'd rather hear more from Gary Lineker and less from the likes of Farage, Rees-Mogg, Anderson, Gullis, Braverman, Johnson et al.
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Hamburg (1967) Photoby AndersPetersen #photography #blackandwhitephotography
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Iggy Pop photographed by Esther Friedman
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Roller Skating, Venice Beach (1980) Photo by David Hurn #photography #blackandwhitephotography
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@Coldwar_Steve just found out Keanu is 57 today...same as Farage
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@BBCNews I preferred it the way it was; outward looking, far more inclusive, concerned with the welfare of the state rather than the state of their mate's finances
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@TeaRoomBetty Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
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@SkyNews FIFA’s eyes lit up at all that cash…all moralising ended there.
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@RealBobMortimer "a righteous pigeon"
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@PolhomeEditor @VeeCee30 800,000 job vacancies in the UK, a declining birth rate - Mr Martin has finally contributed something sensible on Brexit
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2 years
@SoVeryBritish Bread and Butter pudding with custard obvs
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4 years
@davidkurten Maybe we should stop wearing seatbelts and flak jackets or not bother turning our car headlights on in the dark - because being a “real man” will save us...and others.
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@mrhenrymorris Camilla seeing the exit poll...
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@PippaCrerar @SkyNews he's as dangerous as some of us predicted...very worrying
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@GrimArtGroup Josef Koudelka's famous photograph taken at the time Warsaw Pact troops invaded Prague, Czechoslovakia in August 1968 serves as a reminder.
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7 years
Jeremy Corbyn launches his GE campaign....
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Lee Radziwill in a red gown by Lanvin (1960s) Photo by Mark Shaw #photography #fashion #60s
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Heinz [1973] Polaroid by Wim Wenders #photography
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@PoliticsForAlI @thetimes understandably...some of them are going to have to be actual MPs for the first time in years and deal with the Hoi polloi
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5 years
@britainelects @YouGov Corbyn’s rally tomorrow night should see at least a couple of % points added...but not necessarily to Labour
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6 years
@GeorgeMonbiot Whenever Rees-Mogg bangs on about how jolly it will be after Brexit I'm just glad I learned how to trap and field dress a squirrel for the pot
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@RealEmirHan You’ve picked my favourite so I’ll have to choose another…SOLARIS (1972)
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4 years
@SkyNews i'll take my lead from scientists and doctors, not someone who can plunk the banjo a bit
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3 years
@bmay said this half-joking…hey ho
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3 years
@secrettory12 If Pfeffel has any sense he'll hand it off to The Met for further investigation and they'll claim "insufficient evidence".
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Two women paying off their cabbie before voting at a polling station in May 1929 - Photo: The Sphere #GeneralElection24
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@ColinCorbynista Finally...they’ve changed the name to The Jeremy Corbyn Party
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@DeborahMeaden Brexiters now have to show us the way to the "sunlit uplands", preferably with detailed plans identifying trade and revenue opportunities, cost benefit analysis, resources, timescales etc etc
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Stanley Kubrick on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) #Films #Cinema #Movies #scifi
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@implausibleblog Like Trump, Farage goes after the question(ers) in an attempt to control the narrative. He must not be allowed to get away with it.
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2 years
@DPJHodges he said why can't you just send me a questionnaire....
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Two Women with Caps in Water (1980) Photo by André Gelpke #photography #blackandwhitephotography
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@ProfBrianCox Cabbie: Where to Sir? Rees-Mogg: 1948
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Yosemite National Park (1965) Photo by Rondal Partridge #photography #blackandwhitephoto #environment
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@jeremycorbyn Corbyn Brexit or May Brexit? A bit like being told you've got to have a leg off - but you can choose which one....left or right
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Mode design, anni 1960 Photo by Jean-Loup Sieff #photography #design
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Berlin (1963) Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson #photography #blackandwhitephotography
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@Trump_Detester Looking at it from the outside (I’m a Brit) I don’t think Trump’s core support cares a jot…we’re at the stage where he could drop his trousers at a rally and play the pan pipes with his chute….and they’d still clap like seals.
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@ABridgen meanwhile the rest of the world......
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Happy Birthday Bjork - photo by Anton Corbijn (1994)
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@womensart1 I've seen Elena's Norilsk work before - extraordinary.
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@BorisJohnson The flag fondlers are out in force again....however, the majority of us see this for what it is....a tragedy for the UK and an embarrassing failure #BorisHasFailedTheNation
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@itvnews @LibbyWienerITV Absolutely disgraceful from Corbyn and his team. We pay his wages - MSM are there to hold his views to account
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London (1967) Photo by Jeanloup Sieff #photography #blackandwhitephotography
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@brexit_sham looked to me like Starmer was setting two traps...one on the "bodies" quote at which he said there would be more. Secondly on his choosing the word "initially" when asking who paid for the refurbishment.
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@SkyNews The Birmingham to Manchester bit....
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@brexit_sham angry hobbit Francois has far too much airtime and not enough scrutiny
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@Maomentum_ Jeremy Cobyn won Parliamentary Beard of The Year a record six times....Tony Blair hasn't won it once. Let that sink in.
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@ladyhaja feels like the perfect storm; a global pandemic, sociopaths Trump and Johnson at the head of two of the most powerful countries on Earth....all we need now is a rogue asteroid
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@AdamBienkov In less than 24 hours the Tories have probably upped the Scottish Independence demographic by several % points.
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@SkyNews Mine are trained to steal wine.
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We never learn from history....There is no god to save us Two German women in ruined Cologne, 1945. Photo by Lee Miller
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@SarahjevsEvans Later that day...
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@mikegalsworthy In August I visited a number of care homes in my area to place a relative...I can assure you ,without immigration...they would cease to exist.
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@BBCNews There are millions of unpaid carers in this country...how are they supposed to take on a career or even work extra hours in their current jobs when social care isn't available.
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@Scientists4EU Anyone who believes the Daily Mail and writes "sum" instead of scum is clearly a unt
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Marianne Faithfull at her London flat in (1964) Photo by Doreen Spooner #photography #60s
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@SkyNews Starmer was just on the telly outlining a plan for flooded communities and the Post Office prosecutions. Sunak is prancing about in front of a tame audience.
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@BBCNews Boris Johnson keeps promising stuff - 40 new hospitals, 8 nuclear power stations, estuary airports, garden bridges, oven-ready Brexit. Beanstalks to an imaginary land of treasure.
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