Fran Singh
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Acting deputy digital editor for the Guardian. London via South Wales. Formerly of the Observer and Politics Home. Here for the animal pics and good news. Views all mine
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A British minority faces a murderous threat on our streets. Where are the so-called anti-racists? | Jonathan Freedland
As Jews face the deadly menace of antisemitism, they should not be alone. It’s time for their fellow Britons to step up, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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NEW: Nigel Farage has sold videos in which he endorsed a neo-Nazi event, repeated extremist slogans and supported a man convicted over his involvement in a far-right riot - @direthoughts.com & @michaelgoodier.bsky.social report www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
Newly unearthed Nigel Farage videos reveal support for rioter, neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans
Exclusive: Analysis of more than 4,000 of Reform UK leader’s paid-for Cameo videos also shows they contain misogynistic remarks and antisemitic conspiracies
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Jesus Christ why are Mother's Day cards so awful? Pink. Floral. Gushing. Insipid
Got chatting to a very nice man in a bird hide today who pointed out his fellow volunteers catching jack snipe to ring and he asked if we wanted to come watch (quickest yes! of my life). Look at his little livid face. Bewildered. Fuming
Liu and her father, who had protested the Chinese government after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, were targeted in an alleged spying scheme months before Liu competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Why China Sent Spies After Gold Medal-Winning Skater Alysa Liu And Her Father
Liu and her father, who had protested the Chinese government after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, were targeted in an alleged spying scheme months before Liu competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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Hahahahaha. I am Welsh and have had ChatGPT do this, and so was extremely paranoid about how it had worked it out because I'm quite careful with what I use it for. Reassuring it thinks everyone is Welsh
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 6mo agoDoes ChatGPT think you’re Welsh too? ft.trib.al/d5DvPGA | opinion
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Pooping menaces or ‘flying puppies’? How pigeons are dividing a UK city
The growing number of birds in Norwich market has pushed the council to adopt extreme measures – including a hawk and oral contraceptives. But for the city’s pigeon-loving activists, they are just mis...
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I want to click it, because it is slightly unhinged, but I won't, because that's what they want
More Lapwings than I've ever seen in my life #birds #wwtslimbridge
This is a few days old now (which in the current news cycle feels like years) but I can't stop thinking about the flagrant racism we're witnessing at the moment www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Trump paints himself as great white hope in racism-drenched Davos speech
President’s anti-Somalia tirade and insults to European leaders were in line with aide Stephen Miller’s worldview
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Exclusive: 34 school contemporaries of Nigel Farage have now come forward to claim they saw him behave in a racist or antisemitic manner, raising fresh questions over the Reform leader’s evolving denials.
‘Go back home’: Farage schoolmate accounts bring total alleging racist behaviour to 34
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries say Reform leader often used antisemitic language and racial epithets
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Listening to Rosalia - Berghain and my partner just walked in and casually said "well this is extremely Eurovision" and I honestly have nothing I can say back to that because if you cut out the last part ... god it really is
At the point of aging where my body still mostly works, knock wood, but I’ve started pointing and birds and trees and announcing their names.
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Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
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www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-... France claimed: “He would chant, ‘BM, BM, we are British Nazi men,’ that really sticks in my mind ... Then he would be sort of singing these kind of ‘gas ’em all’ sort of songs.” "I remember, very clearly; absolutely 100% true.”
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
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Do you feel lucky? Why acknowledging our own good fortune would make the world a better place | Julian Richer
I have been fortunate, and I know it. Now I’d like more successful people to admit that meritocracy is a myth, says Julian Richer, founder of Richer Sounds
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In a time of hate and rancour, two Jews sought to pray – and were killed. Let Manchester be a turning point | Jonathan Freedland
This was a horror but with so much intolerance and antisemitism, no one can say it was a surprise. There are lessons to learn, and that must start now, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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I wrote to my MP today to ask why she voted to proscribe Palestine Action. I genuinely want to hear her reasons. After sending I worried expressing my view that it was the wrong decision could be deemed as a supporting terrorism. That this crossed my mind shows we've gone seriously wrong somewhere
What a monumental waste of time and money. This is embarrassing www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London
Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police
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EXCLUSIVE: Investigation proves Palestinians indiscriminately shot by Israeli military near food sites across 50 days, from yours truly for the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
‘A deadly scheme’: Palestinians face indiscriminate gunfire at food sites
Investigation based on visual evidence, bullets, medical records and testimony appears to show sustained pattern of Israeli shootings
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Have memory of going to the dump mentioned in this article and sitting on my dad's shoulder throwing in bottles to the bottle bank for what felt like eternity. A fond memory, though with hindsight god my parents used to get through the booze www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why I absolutely love a visit to the dump | Adrian Chiles
Throwing things away is bad. Buying them in the first place was probably bad, too. But the act of disposing of them at the rubbish tip is a glorious moment of relief and release, writes Adrian Chiles
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