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Columnist, campaigner, author, atheist, “queen of leftist journalists” Polly Toynbee, photographed at this year’s Fabian January Conference. Very friendly, very impressive and very cool.

Irksome when you meet someone younger than you, rousing a crowded room to cheers and whoops, but there we are. Owen Jones, author of ‘Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class’, writer and regular left-wing arguer on TV & Radio. Dead nice guy.

Leader of the Green Party, MP for Brighton Pavilion. Campaigner for alternatives to globalisation, trade justice, animal welfare and green economics. And thoroughly nice person; Caroline Lucas.

Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, tipped to be the first female leader of the Labour party, Rachel Reeves.

The Editor of the New Statesman, Jason Cowley. Formerly the Editor of Granta and the Observer Sport Monthly. Not bad. And a thoroughly nice chap to boot.

The Editor of Fabiana, the magazine of the Fabian Women’s Network, feminist and Labour party activist – Ivana Bartoletti.

Socialist, feminist, environmentalist, blogger Emma Burnell (Scarlet Standard). You could do a lot worse than follow her on twitter @ScarletStand . Imagine Guido Fawkes if he was nice.

Shauna & John tied the knot and partied in the lavish surroundings of Stubton Hall (jump) on Sunday.

Beautiful couple, beautiful location and a beautiful, bright Christmassy day.

Here’s a shoot I did a few months back (October?) for the Radio Times. Katherine Kelly (Becky McDonald in Corrie) leaving the Street. It appears in the Christmas 2011 issue.

Thanks to Etienne Varg for assisting me, Lorraine McCulloch for styling, Christopher Raine for Hair & MUP and Olivia Howitt & Dawn Coomber for sorting everything out.

Some images from the shoot:

And some behind-the-scenes of everyone thoroughly enjoying the weather:

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Susie & James got married in St John’s College Chapel in Oxford, and went on to the Ashmolean for their Reception. It was a stunning day, with such a lovely couple.

Oh – and I was inspired to buy a Super-8 camera…