The time when Nick Griffin tried to use me as a human shield & I had to have a shower when I got home.

Auschwitz Berkenau camp in the 1980s

Never again is sounding a bit thin these days.

Can't help wondering if Starmer's sudden decision to take away the last traces of NHS data privacy is also him folding to Trump's backers.

Fingers crossed for 2025!

Does anyone else think that making money from charging NHS staff, patients+visitors to use car parks is wrong?

I’ve just found this info:

“NHS England Estates data reports that in 2018/19, £271.8 million was made from car park charges—£185.6 from patients/visitors and £86.2 million from staff.”

My 1998 secret squirrel pic of when the Easter Sunday sermon by Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Carey, was disrupted by protesters from Outrage storming the pulpit with Peter Tatchell denouncing homophobia & hypocrisy in the church. Spycop Ian Farmer (really Adrian Radford) in glasses next to Tatchell.

My 1998 secret squirrel pic of when the Easter Sunday sermon by Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Carey, was disrupted by protesters from Outrage storming the pulpit with Peter Tatchell denouncing homophobia & hypocrisy in the church.
Spycop Ian Farmer (really Adrian Radford) in glasses next to Tatchell.

I'm feeling cheered. The Kickstarter for my book Protest! is fully funded & I can stop worrying. I can also post a photo that isn't about protest or policing for a change!

Smithfield Meat Market, 1989.
Have a nice weekend.

Slutwalk, London, 2011 an international protest against rape and sexual violence triggered by a Toronto policeman's comment that women should “avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimised”.

From my new book Protest!
Slutwalk, London, 2011 an international protest against rape and sexual violence triggered by a Toronto policeman's comment that women should “avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimised”.
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I fear that they may prove to be millstones.

From my new book Protest! Nation of Islam at a protest in Lambeth following the death of Brian Douglas after being struck on the back of the head by PC Mark Tuffey with one of the new American-style long batons.

From my new book Protest!
Nation of Islam at a protest in Lambeth following the death of Brian Douglas, struck on the back of the head by PC Mark Tuffey with one of the new American-style long batons.
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A protest in front of Westminster Cathedral against the proposed visit by Pope Benedict XVI, led by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The Pope had described homosexuality as an "intrinsic moral evil" and stated that there is "no right" to be gay.

From my new book Protest!
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence protest against a proposed visit by Pope Benedict XVI who’d described homosexuality as an "intrinsic moral evil". Westminster Cathedral 2010
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Late night, Bank Holiday Monday 1979, Notting Hill Carnival. Police move along Ladbroke Grove attacking isolated groups of revellers & sparking counter attacks.

From my forthcoming book Protest!
Late night, Bank Holiday Monday 1979, Notting Hill Carnival. Police move along Ladbroke Grove attacking isolated groups of revellers & sparking counter attacks.
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Activists in a tree house slated to be cut down during the protest against the M11 link road extension in Claremont Road, Leyton in 1994 became a unique community of resistance.

This is from the 1994 protest against the M11 link road from my new book Protest!
Activists occupied trees slated to be cut down, blocked the paths of bulldozers, barricaded empty properties & sabotaged equipment.
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G20 police about to punch a protester but stopping at last minute when he sees my camera. From book with a Kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iar/protest-0/

There'll be more of this story & others in my new book Protest!
It was only my flash going off that saved his teeth.
The screech of muscle brakes was almost audible as this cop stopped his punch just before it made contact. G20 protests City of London 2009
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A 1993 Dongas Tribe action to stop the extension of the M3 motorway throughTwyford Down, the setting for ‘Watership Down’ a book about rabbits under threat.

There'll be more of this story & others in my new book Protest!
This is a 1993 Dongas Tribe action to stop the extension of the M3 motorway through Twyford Down, the setting for ‘Watership Down’, Richard Adams' popular novel about rabbits under threat.
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The Kickstarter is https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iar/protest-0/ and there’s a link in my @davidhoffmanuk profile. If you like it, please share, I’d really appreciate your help. This photo is from a Reclaim the Streets “March for Social Justice” with the sacked Liverpool Dockers just before the 1997 general election. There was a rally in Trafalgar Square & the sound systems soon turned it into an energetic and entirely peaceful dance which was enthusiastically attacked by hundreds of viciously aggressive Territorial Support Group (TSG) police officers dressed in full riot gear. Expecting this, some protesters had brought squeezy bottles of paint which they used to considerable effect, rendering visors and shields opaque.

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The March for Social Justice just before the 1997 general election which was enthusiastically attacked by hundreds of viciously aggressive TSG police
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After almost half a century covering protests I'm doing a Kickstarter for a book. Take a look, if you like it, please share!
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Editing my book photo 'Protest' showing small proofs & the designer's notes.

A long but productive editing session! My book 'Protest!' spanning 5 decades of chasing trouble is coming on well. Take a look at the Kickstarter & if you like it then please share. It's a hard time to be raising money and this book needs all the help it can get!
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and I've still got the TSDC poster

and I've still got the poster!

Cover of my Protest book with QR code to Kickstarter

I'm sort of hoping that my Poll Tax riot photograph in today's #TheGuardian will help with the Kickstarter for my Protest! book.
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Hot snogs, fizz-fuelled city boys and a hilltop homage to Duran Duran: nine photos that capture the 1980s It was a tumultuous decade characterised by street riots, financial excess and big-haired bands making big-budget videos. As a major exhibition of shots from the 1980s prepares to open, we talk to the...

Great to see one of my favourite photographs picked up in the promo for #TheTate 1980s show.
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