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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

Guardian columnist and journalist. Author of Who Wants Normal? (2025) and Crippled (out now) E: [email protected]

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Exited to get my copy of Pippa ‘s brilliant new book, How to do life with a chronic illness.

Pre-order yours: amazon.co.uk/How-Life-Chron…

Exited to get my copy of @lifeofpippa_ ‘s brilliant new book, How to do life with a chronic illness. Pre-order yours: amazon.co.uk/How-Life-Chron…
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Yes, she'll suffer zero repercussions for this - while journalists, academics and artists have lost their jobs for supporting a ceasefire - but the cool part is that the *suggestion* of repercussions will be cited, forever after, as proof of cancel culture. It's a sweet grift.

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'He wanted a girlfriend and he's got no social skills and he was frustrated out of his brain,' he added. Perhaps all those who quickly labelled it as a terrorist act should now talk about the incel radicalisation of white men. bbc.com/news/world-688…

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Pubs are, by definition, venues for adults and it is completely normal to want to spend time in those spaces. Have a discussion about family friendly spaces if you want but to equate child-free drinking with excluding minorities is just insulting!

Pubs are, by definition, venues for adults and it is completely normal to want to spend time in those spaces. Have a discussion about family friendly spaces if you want but to equate child-free drinking with excluding minorities is just insulting!
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Thousands of disabled people will get £2,800 a year less after the Universal Credit rollout, it’s emerged.

The ways in which the Tory party have found to push disabled people into poverty truly is endless. theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

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Listening to an indie band who all went to a £40,000 a year private school, I read a novel by an author who went to a £40,000 a year private school and pause to read the news written by a selection of people who went to £40,000 a year private schools. I love British culture.

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“A Labour leader contorting himself for a Sun endorsement is like a child paying for a bully’s mercy: it might work for a while, but they will turn on you soon enough.”

My col. on Starmer’s age old Murdoch dilemma and why it symbolises his leadership. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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I think some gen z have a hard time grasping that art often evokes uncomfortable emotions on purpose. It’s cringey to you because they wrote it cringey!! Imagine how much worse it would be if Carrie were written as an infallible aspirational bore? She’s terrible and we need that!

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“The changed Labour party I lead knows that our nation’s defence must always come first,” Starmer will say today.

Again, the point of the policy is not simply to raise defence spending but to signal to the right he’s not afraid to piss off the left. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

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“The issue is not that Starmer is interested in attracting Tory voters, it’s that he often appears uninterested in keeping Labour ones. Indeed, at times, the party seems actively keen to lose them.”

My col. in today’s The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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