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Fran Singh
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Homepage editor for the Guardian. London via South Wales. Formerly of the Observer and Politics Home. Here for the cat pics. Views all mine
I'd also prefer to forget I have a face
August 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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
August 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
What a monumental waste of time and money. This is embarrassing

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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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August 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Reposted by Fran Singh
EXCLUSIVE: Investigation proves Palestinians indiscriminately shot by Israeli military near food sites across 50 days, from yours truly for the @theguardian.com

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‘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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August 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Wow this is incredibly moving
July 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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

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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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July 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Write a rap about Cyril the swan immediately
July 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Also have vivid memories of sitting around and waiting FOR HOURS listening to the radio because I wanted to record Coolio for my own mixtape. Recording off the radio. Feel elderly
July 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I used to be a prolific mix tape giver and with hindsight I bet most of them were godawful and hope the friends and former crushes have binned the evidence

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‘I threw it in the bin with everything else he gave me’: the mix tapes that defined our lives
In heart-tugging drama Mix Tape, two ex-lovers are thrown back together with the music they wooed each other with 20 years earlier. Here, writers dig out their most treasured tapes and CDs full of mea...
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July 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I need to know what skincare Rachel Reeves has used overnight
July 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Have loved reading some of the Facebook comments today of people frothing over Charli xcx at Glastonbury. Men furious there was autotune! No guitars! It's giving me energy
June 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I like my job, work a 9 day fortnight, but at least once a week I send text to a friend saying I can't believe we are expected to work more than we live and there aren't riots about it

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Britons have just 23 hours of ‘genuinely free’ time a week – so much for labour-saving technology | Elle Hunt
AI really could shift the locus of life and meaning away from work, but we must have vision and daring to make it happen, says journalist Elle Hunt
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June 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Great article by my old friend. "The change in tactics pose a question for Keir Starmer’s government, which has signed on to a far more deadly campaign without a vote in parliament. There is also a question for the US and UK on the legal justification for the attacks against the Houthis."
One very important thing I learned while reporting this piece:

“The underlying rationale of protecting international trade and commerce is not a justification under international law for the use of force.” - Ioannis Kalpouzos, visiting professor, Harvard Law School.

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UK more involved in Trump's war in Yemen than we realise
As 70 people are killed in an attack on a migrant centre in Sa’ada, Observer analysis shows that British involvement in Trump’s military action is deeper than ministers have admitted
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May 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM