Dull afternoon - time for some drugs

Methedrone, a legal designer drug. I don't mind photographing it but my nose has other plans.

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Need Sunshine!

Grey sky but there's still one little glow in my suddenly autumnal garden.

BNP Richard (Confused) Barnbrook found guilty at tribunal.

Barnbrook explains that his racist claim based on non existent murders was due to dyslexia or to to being confused or a left wing plot or it didn't matter or it was a left wing plot or only a minor point or a left wing plot or utter hypocrisy or .... (sorry, the will to live has temporarily left me).

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English Defence League - BNP Stalking Horse?

The English Defence League had a little wander about in Piccadilly scaring a few children and enriching the bars. A dull day apart from their half hearted attack on the press. Combat 18's heirs? More like Wombat 18.

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I'm A Photographer, Not A Terrorist

A great day at Canary Wharf. More than 100 photographers turned out in the sunshine to make the point that spaces used by the public are spaces where photography should be welcome. Recording our society is an important part of culture, rules preventing it must go.

English Defence League - Politics by Provocation

Demonstrators from the BNP linked English Defence League stage an anti Muslim demonstration outside Harrow Mosque during Friday prayers to provoke the local youth into battles with police attempting to keep the factions apart. There was some violence with bottles, rocks and fireworks thrown and a handful of arrests but no serious trouble.

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