30 August 2010
Around 30 protesters, mainly English Defence League supporters, joined a march organised by the English Nationalist Alliance through Brighton. They were given a heavy police escort as they marched through the town and were heckled by locals and anti-fascist counter-protesters. Police arrested several anti-fascist protesters as they attempted to stop the march through Brighton.
28 August 2010
Several hundred English Defence League protesters held a static protest in Bradford, after the Home Secretary banned any marches from taking place. Police made over a dozen arrests after the EDL clashed with police as they tried to break out of the protest area.
23 August 2010
Around 200 protesters took part in a day of mass action in an attempt to shut down the RBS HQ. Smaller actions took place around Edinburgh occupying branches of RBS and companies that invest in fossil fuels.
22 August 2010
Around 200 protesters in boiler suits from Climate Camp pushed through police lines to attack the RBS HQ. Protesters smashed five windows on the building with hammers with police making two arrests.
31 July 2010
Around 150 people joined the English Nationalist Alliance march through London to deliver a letter to Downing Street. The protest was mainly made up of supporters from the far-right English Defence League.
21 June 2010
Last week there were two tangentially related pieces of news, first that the last NCTJ accredited press photography course was ending in Sheffield and second that Getty were extending their deal with Flickr to be open to everyone.
5 April 2010
I’ve been covering the rise of the far-right, anti-Islamic English Defence League for the last year or so now. Their protests across the county have grown considerably from the few hundred that I first photographed in Birmingham, to the thousands in Dudley this past weekend.
1 April 2010
Earlier today I attended a memorial for Ian Thomlinson, the paper seller who died during the G20 protests last year. There were numerous protesters there and even some of the organisers of the G20 protests. His family were also there to lay flowers at the spot where he died face-down on the pavement after being hit by a policeman.