Archive - a taste of mind

August 2025

IS LIVERPOOL ENGLISH?

'Scouse not English' they say. But is it true? And what can we learn from it?

Aug 18 •

Power of the Portrait #1

A man in a bus stop was brought to tears.

Aug 6 •

July 2025

CAR BOOTLE: STANLEY ROAD MARKET

I ventured into Bootle's famed car-boot sale for some photographic ethnography. And it was everything I expected.

Jul 28 •

PHOTO DISPATCH (20/07/2025)

I’ll feed this Substack with a constant stream of street portraits, a collage of kites.

Jul 19 •

barbecue pork chops with a grilled nectarine, chinese lettuce, cavolo nero, szechuan nuts and goat’s cheese salad

This is something I regard as proper man food. It’s a simple evolutionary equation: meat + fire = happy man. It’s the cumulative results and end point…

Jul 8 •

SUN AND STEEL: POLICE BRUTALITY IN THE L8 CONSTITUENCY

28/06/2025 - Police beating up a manic and unstable ex-army veteran sparked off some interesting relfections on the nature of masculinity and trauma.

Jul 1 •

June 2025

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