David Hoffman

I've really enjoyed banging these daft cards out over the years but it's time to call it a day. I'm a bit sad to bring it to an end but 40 years seems like enough. More to the point, the world is so horrific these days that it's now beyond my skill & imagination to lampoon!

@AlisonSpycops I'm sure they've been digging out & shredding your files, mine & a lot of others for a decade. I just hope they're as incompetent at that as at the spying .

I had a 5 year relationship with a Special Branch officer who was spying on me & others. Yesterday I received confirmation that Special Branch has no file on me. I've been demanding the Met *give* us our files. Now I want to know: *where* is my file?! #spycops

@MaryBarbieri I'm glad you were inspired - but it was by a different David Hoffman, the 'lost everything' DH is a fine US film maker. I'm a UK photographer.

@davidhoffmanuk Hello David, I just watched a TedTalk you gave in 2008 “What happens when you lose everything”Well I believe you realised on your own but in case you didn’t I would like to say that you managed to make something good out of something bad. And it inspired me. Tks

Nothing new. Downing St, London 15/1/00. Protective gates rammed by a 28 year old male driver. An American woman from New Jersey was thrown into the air and suffered a broken leg as she pushed one of her children out of the way. #downingstreet #downingst

Favourite criticism anyone ever made of my work

If you can stick a few quid in this hat it will help push back on a bit of the current evil. I just supported this case! crowdjustice.com/case/tufton-st… via @CrowdJustice

I'm very grateful to @ZakWaters for making me sound quite sane and coherent in his new podcast about my work over the years. youtu.be/EP_1N0gXE_U

Thanks Gentle Author for running my Crisis At Christmas photographs from 40 odd years ago. Crisis back then was a wonderful chaotic almost-falling-apart brilliant and inspirational escape capsule for hundreds of desperate people. spitalfieldslife.com/2022/12/27/dav…

It's time for my annual state of the nation artwork to be released into the waiting arms of the universe. I send my warmest greetings and very best wishes to you all! #christmas #art #photography #montage #photoshop #politics #ChristmasCard #Satire #AI

It's taken 47 years for most of these photos from an East End pensioners' club Christmas party to see the light of day but a pleasure delayed is a pleasure doubled. spitalfieldslife.com/2022/12/19/chr… #party #christmas #xmas #pensioner #towerhamlets #eastend #london

@DreamlandUK Nearly a week since my underblanket failed after barely 1 year of use. Repeated calls to @DreamlandUK promise a response that doesn't come. Disappointing and shoddy service from what I now know to be an untrustworthy company. #badservice #badcustomerservice #fail

There's no way that this government will do it so I've donated to @trusselltrust to support their work to #StopUKHunger, as no one should have to go hungry. Do the same?trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation

Today is the anniversary of the Met Police blocking, trapping and beating the anti-racist march on 16 October 1993 calling for the BNP ‘bookshop’ in Welling to be closed. hoffmanphotos.com

A photographer has just been dragged off the conference centre floor by security.

@BillalRahman5 @dinosofos Hi Billal - do you work for nothing? Pay the creator!

My jaw hit the floor when I discovered Boris Johnson left an emergency NATO meeting after the Kremlin’s chemical warfare attack on Britain & flew to an off-the-books meeting with an ex-KGB spy. Yours should too. This is how it happened. 1/ theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

Remember the outrage caused by the strip search of Child Q in Hackney? Today I can reveal that five children are being strip searched every week by the Met, without being arrested for anything first. More than half of the children were black. @LBC lbc.co.uk/news/met-strip…

Criminal justice system in a state of collapse. Ditto health service. Largest police service is under remedial measures. Record inflation. Highest taxation in 70 years. Foodbanks running low. No freedom of movement. But Johnson "got all the big calls right".

marshalling the spirit of pro- Mosley Mail in 1930s; hard to know which sinks lower - this rag or Truss