Simon Hinde

Are there any tintype photographers here? I want to do a tintype feature in my newsletter in the New Year. Please drop me a line if you make these kinds of pictures. Thank you!

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Some thoughtful responses to images in the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prizes show @NPGLondon from MA Journalism students @LCCLondon medium.com/taylor-wessing…

For my first @BritishVogue article, I spent the week in Accra covering the annual Ghana Cultural Week organised by Gallery 1957. I wrote about their brilliant exhibition ‘Keeping Time’ and the organisations and artists contributing to Ghana’s art ecosystem vogue.co.uk/article/galler…

Ahead of the Greek PM's visit to the UK tomorrow, most Britons think the Elgin Marbles should be returned to Greece Return to Greece: 53% Keep in Britain: 24% yougov.co.uk/topics/enterta…

This #TransAwarenessWeek we're making our Emerging performance public! Centring on the relationship between a transgender son, who has questioned his gender identity for as long as he can remember & his mother. 🏳️‍⚧️ youtube.com/watch?v=RDoxGf… 📽️ available until Monday 25th Nov

THREAD | Free Speech, Culture Wars and Dodgy Journalism 🔴 "WHERE IS YOUR SON?", barked a lady as she banged on my parents' door yesterday in London. She identified herself as a journalist, and was told I wasn't at home. Still, she hung around. Why...? 🤔 It's complicated.

They don’t recognise teaching as a craft and discipline that needs time, work, experience and training to develop.

This is the shameful secret of a lot of Russell Group unis - the teaching isn’t that great and the staff are grievously exploited. theguardian.com/education/2024…

Universities always seem to have funds for new buildings and expanding their bureaucracies, but they refuse to pay their lecturers decently.

Fetid, I tell you. Fetid!

The Mail is famed for its cut and paste but far from alone. Across the industry countless hours are wasted on this sort of thing instead of doing some actual journalism. It's such a broken model.

This piece is a wholesale lift of an @BBCNews investigation, findings, quotes and all. See how far down the piece you have to go before the Mail gives its grudging acknowledgement.

as i’ve written before, the RW beef with higher education and elite institutions in general is ultimately part of a broader effort to instate a much more rigid, stratified social order based on race and gender, which they see as inextricably linked to IQ thebaffler.com/salvos/live-fr…

Having a bunch of hungry children sing “Happy birthday, your majesty” at a food bank is certainly one way for a king to celebrate his 76th.

She’s right about this tbf.

Maybe our wrecked economy and terrible jobs market aren’t the fault of universities? Also, there’s an ‘a’ in ‘indicator’, as most graduates will be able to tell you.

This is a good piece with a certain amount of 'read-across' to the UK political scene.

"I think I got it wrong because I am too optimistic, good, kind and clever for this sordid world".

After the tuition fee rise was announced on Monday, a senior university official told @theipaper: “Any university planning jobs cuts this morning will be planning for job cuts this evening.” inews.co.uk/news/politics/…