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Max Colson

@MaxColson

Artist documenting: offshore property in British Isles; nostalgia in Britain | @Film_London Lodestar 2023 | Teaching @UAL | a jobbing photog 📸

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@DanNeidle19 Mar 2025
65,000 UK companies are unlawfully hiding their beneficial owner. We've just published an interactive map showing them all. Thread:
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⏰ Last remaining tickets! ⏰ This is your last chance to join us in person at the @bcs event on Wednesday featuring Lumen Artists: @SarahSelbyArt @adamcole_studio @MaxColson UchanSun 🗓️ Weds 8th Nov 6:30pm (GMT) 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-evening…
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If, for any reason, your curiosity is stirred to know more about Russell Brand and what he's been up to of late, do read @prospect_uk's recent profile of him by @sarahmanavis #russellbrand prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas…
Tarnished Brand

Tarnished Brand

From mainstream comedy to the fringes of the internet, Russell Brand’s rise as a major voice of the alt-right has been as remarkable as it is strange

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✨3D/Interactive Award ✨ Meet the 2023 3d/Interactive Award Shortlisted Artists 👇 👏 @SarahSelbyArt 👏 @MaxColson 👏 Kat Mustatea 👏 Alina Ling See the shortlisted artworks: lumenprize.com/2023-3dintera… #lumenprize
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Investigation: £250m of UK property is owned by children of autocratic rulers and allies, @thetimes can reveal. Foreign leaders’ families bought the best of London's properties but their identities were previously hidden. With @GeorgeGreenwood & @tomjs thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-pr…
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New walk, 'Bloomsbury and Empire', 3pm, starting Tavistock Sq, near Gandhi: we'll be exploring the area as a space associated at once with the legal fictions underwriting colonial dispossession & with anti-colonial struggle. Come along!! RT pls @QMULsed & bloomsburyonfoot.com/ola/ser…
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Excited about 'Queer Bloomsbury' walk this Sat 2pm, which will join the dots twixt activists & happenings within the area's history, from Jarman to Woolf, Rimbaud to Stella & Fanny, with a nod to @gaystheword - the UK's first LGBT bookshop. Please come/RT. bloomsburyonfoot.com/ola/ser…
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New walk Sat 11am am PUMPED for: 'Bloomsbury & Housing'. Will draw out a history of the many housing models & ideas this area has had a hand in, from the aleatory of 19c boarding-houses to Abercrombie's hyper-Plans. Pls RT @MattWThompson @MunicipalDreams bloomsburyonfoot.com/ola/ser…
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arebyte@arebyte4 Aug 2023
It's fantastic to see many artists who have collaborated with arebyte being shortlisted for the @lumenprize✨ Huge congratulations to @MaxColson @SarahSelbyArt @soficrespo91 @_menkman and Rebeca Romero!
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@lumenprize27 Jul 2023
✨ Introducing the 2023 Lumen Prize Longlist ✨ Huge congratulations to all the artists and collectives that were selected for the Longlist and to everyone that entered the 2023 Awards. See the full list of artists and their work: lumenprize.com/2023-longlist…
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Last Thursday, we celebrated our Film London Lodestars in an award ceremony at @RichMixLondon We’re hugely proud to have had the chance to work with this talented bunch of creatives, and we’re so excited to see what they do next! 💫 See the full list: filmlondon.org.uk/film-londo…
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A reminder that on the evening of July 13th I'll be talking about space travel and the Holocaust with @I_W_M's James Bulgin at @wienerlibrary. The event is free to attend but you need to book and spaces are limited! wienerholocaustlibrary.org/e…

Book talk: Depravity’s Rainbow: A Dark History of Space Travel - The Wiener Holocaust Library

Depravity’s Rainbow examines the origins of rocketry and space exploration during the Holocaust, when nascent space technology was mobilised by the Nazi regime as a weapon which they hoped might turn...

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Less than 300 copies of Depravity's Rainbow now. I'd appreciate any shares and RT's on this so I can shift the last part of the print run and reclaim my home from all the boxes. Thanks!
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Five years of work in 20 seconds. Depravity's Rainbow tells a little known history of space exploration that starts in Nazi Germany with the Second World and the Holocaust, and examines how these problematic origins continue to shape the field today. shop.lewisbush.com/product/d…
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"A powerfully argued book to help change democracy’s tattered social contract" This wonderful, thoughtful review of FREE AND EQUAL from @Jderbyshire in the @FT @ftweekend is a real publication-day gift ft.com/content/daa07bbc-16e4…
Free and Equal — why John Rawls’s philosophy matters today

Free and Equal — why John Rawls’s philosophy matters today

Daniel Chandler offers a powerfully argued case for renovating democracy’s tattered social contract

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My book 'FREE AND EQUAL: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?’ is out today! It sets out a vision for how we can reinvigorate democracy & transform capitalism, drawing on the philosopher John Rawls Available here shorturl.at/acdVZ & at bookshops! Thread about the book👇
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Beyond excited that my first comment piece is leading the opinion section in today's Guardian! @guardian @guardianopinion If Labour is to succeed it needs not just new policies, but a whole new philosophy | Daniel Chandler theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Please read this article, a vital wake-up call to the existential threat posed by the race to develop 'God-like AI', and the utterly urgent need for public regulation NOW, before it's too late. Thank you Ian Hogarth @soundboy ft.com/content/03895dc4-a3b7…
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'But it's, like, your hobby, isn't it?' theguardian.com/culture/2023…
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EXCLUSIVE: The eight-year old daughter of one of Putin’s regional governors, the teenage children of a Tory donor, and the wife of a sanctioned Russian financier own properties worth hundreds of million in London - a @thetimes investigation can reveal thetimes.co.uk/article/russi…

Russia sanctions regime at risk of ‘falling to pieces’

The government’s sanctions regime must be strengthened to include relatives, according to campaigners, as it emerged the eight-year-old daughter of one of Vladi

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While UK ministers make tub-thimping speeches here in Davos about Britain's success, the truth is relative decline and we should recognise this BTW - no one here cares about the UK anymore We, the people, are to blame for Britain’s economic woes ft.com/content/2f835691-2824…
We, the people, are to blame for Britain’s economic woes

We, the people, are to blame for Britain’s economic woes

The UK economy looks sickly against international comparisons, so let’s be honest about the three causes

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