• A possibly homeless person sleeping across his rucksack on a bench. Copyright Urban Camera 2024
    Life

    A Place For Everything

    I am fairly sure that most people, perhaps more likely the older, but younger may have been subjected to this too, know the phrase: " A Place for Everything, and Everything in its Place." I heard it constantly uttered as a child, but always from my grandparents, never anyone else. Perhaps it is a thing which springs over a generation now and then, as those on the receiving end vow never to repeat what they have experienced in their youth,

  • a lone, bearded man, seated leaning forward, hands clasped in his lap next to a backpack and an Aldi shopping bag. Copyright Urban Camera 2025.
    Commentary

    A Man of Dishonour, Rewarded

    I can well imagine that the thought has passed through many minds over the last few days, but the title is already taken, and by someone far more deserving of public attention and a lasting memory. Andrew Albert Christian Edward Mountbatten Windsor may well be a former Prince, as well as having been granted many other honorific titles, but he is now in a position of disgrace, albeit one which will hardly dent his ego, or his pocketbook.

  • An wheelchair packed with a sleeping bag and wrapped clothing, belonging to a homeless person in Bremen. Copyright: Urban Camera 2025
    Commentary

    Prior Preparation and Planning

    It's not as if the United Kingdom was not ready for a change; it had been written in the stars and in the minds of countless citizens for months, if not years, prior to the elections which brought the Labour Party back into power with a landslide election result. It had been heralded by the massive failings of a succession of Conservative-led governments, and by the inability of one Prime Minister after another to read the room, to see what was needed, to react to the reality of the times, and to stop putting themselves and their party before the needs of both the country and its people.

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