Outsider - Journey through a changing Europe

13/06/2022

Suffolk summer 21

11/06/2022

Louis and Alba #❤️♥️❤️

09/06/2022

Last summer. ❤️♥️❤️

09/06/2022

Last year we went on an epic bike busking tour in Suffolk as we were emerging from months of restrictions and lockdowns. This weekend we are returning to Fellows Farm to play with our new improved line up, fundraising for Survival International and I can’t wait.

Tickets available at https://fellows-farm.square.site/?fbclid=IwAR3fxYH3y973FuzclRQDJxym_2u0NIZjak8ESXZPDMrKRp0nxJUheikDZck

03/07/2021

03/07/2021

Bike, busk, Suffolk.

04/02/2021

Over the last two lockdowns Louis interviewed me and made a short film about my research on Europe, my approach to photography and what I found out about Brexit.

21/10/2020

Robin Maddock took these of me in a cake shop on Sheppey after a torrential down pour in May 2019 having cycled there from Gravesend. I think in the right hand picture I’m either cutting cake or rolling a cigarette. I’m currently revisiting the interviews I did then. It’s incredible how much has changed since although I haven’t managed to give up smoking having taken it up again in lockdown. I have managed to cut it down to two a day while I’m writing though. This week I’ve been looking at what freedom means in liberal democracies and who and what protects our rights which I hope to be sharing soon.

28/08/2020

It’s been a long time since I posted but a few days ago I processed the films which have been sitting in a drawer in my bedroom, some since the beginning of the year. They are obviously not of Europe but mostly document the time I've spent with my children in lockdown. In the moments I’ve had to myself I’ve also been writing up my travels, reliving the rides I took and trying to weave a narrative through the jumble of ideas I came across and to understand how we process knowledge.
@ London, United Kingdom

19/12/2019

Was just looking back over an article proposal I submitted back in 2014... it's not like we didn't know what was coming...

Rather than challenging the narrative of ascendant popular opposition to immigration, politicians and commentators on both the left and right have adopted nationalistic rhetoric in an attempt to garner support in the run up to next year’s election. While this might be expected from the right, it reflects a growing divide in opinion on the left. Owing to the perception that New Labour has isolated the party’s traditional electorate – the working class – and now narrowly appeals to “Guardian readers” and civil servants, a group of commentators are endorsing policies of the kind usually associated with Mr Farage or the BNP. In an attempt to win back votes, Blue Labour is advocating a break from Europe and the tightening of immigration quotas. Accordingly, this post will argue that the resurgence of nationalism serves the interests of the ruling elites by placing blame for rising inequality and dissatisfaction on migrants, rather than unregulated economic determinism and the breakdown of welfare. I will propose that the left would be better served by confidently promoting economic reform and greater regulation to create more jobs and decent wages. I will also argue that politicians and commentators should take the initiative of challenging popular myth to highlight the positive, vital contribution migrants have made to society, and thereby recognise multiculturalism as a key aspect of a more progressive national identity.

16/12/2019

I wrote this piece a few weeks before the election, but when thinking about Brexit it is still relevant

Although the country is widely believed to be divided, here I explore why the categories leave and remain are inadequate to frame the population and their attitudes on Europe.