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Mark Townsend

Mark Townsend is a senior global development reporter at the Guardian. He is the author of No Return: The True Story of How Martyrs Are Made

11 November 2023

  • A pro-Palestinian protest on Park Lane in London on Saturday, marching from Hyde Park to the US embassy in Vauxhall.

    Hundreds of thousands rally for Gaza in London as police arrest far-right protesters

    Huge attendance at march will add to pressure on Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer to back calls for ceasefire in Middle East conflict
  • A group of men standing at the side of a road in central London making aggressive gestures.

    Far-right ‘defends’ the Cenotaph to the echo of home secretary’s words

    Tension built all week about the Gaza march on Armistice Day. In the end, the far-right sparked violence. Then huge peaceful crowds surged through London

    • Half of teenagers in England and Wales have witnessed or been victims of violence, study reveals

    • ‘They’re demonised, labelled as criminals’: a lifeline for the young on one of London’s most violent estates

    • Pro-Palestine protesters assemble in London as police jostle with far-right groups

4 November 2023

  • Protesters in London calling for a ceasefire in Gaza

    Revealed: plan to brand anyone ‘undermining’ UK as extremist

  • Suella Braverman in 10 Downing Street

    Fury as Braverman depicts homelessness as a ‘lifestyle choice’

  • The graves of Russian prisoners at the Alderney camp.

    Himmler ordered mass execution of prisoners in only Nazi camp on British soil, documents reveal

  • A woman carries her child ashore in Dungeness after being rescued while crossing the English Channel in November 2021.

    Revealed: UK coastguard downgraded 999 calls from refugees in days before mass drowning

October 2023

  • Immigration minister Robert Jenrick

    Afghans who fled Taliban to UK ‘set to be made homeless at Christmas’

  • From left, Cheryl Shaw, Charlene and Sophie Ellis, and Letisha Shakespeare on New Year’s Eve, 2002

    Families of victims of UK’s notorious ‘Burger Bar Boys’ killers targeted 20 years on

  • Protesters wave Palestinian flags as the march passes the Houses of Parliament on Saturday.

    100,000 join London march against strikes on Gaza

  • A mounted facial recognition camera with a screen in the background displaying images of people

    Major UK retailers urged to quit ‘authoritarian’ police facial recognition strategy

  • ‘Simply a call for freedom’: marchers defend slogan at London Palestine protest

  • ‘We feel targeted’: families from two faiths in UK fear for relatives in the Middle East – and their own safety

  • Tens of thousands of protesters across UK call for a free Palestine

  • London police defy ban on badges linked to far right and white supremacy

  • Biles comes fifth in bar finals but all-around gold caps astonishing comeback

  • Most Londoners think Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall’s social media activity is racist, poll finds

September 2023

  • A Metropolitan police notice telling the public about the use of automated facial recognition cameras around Whitehall for Remembrance Sunday

    Revealed: Home Office secretly lobbied for facial recognition ‘spy’ company

    Officials reflected policing minister’s enthusiasm to roll out controversial technology across the country, particularly in retail settings
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