North of England correspondent @guardian, council estate dweller, injustice complainer, joke attempter. Fellow @risj_oxford 🏳️🌈
Leeds, England
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For the pin: I'm not really using this hellsite currently.
If you're that one person who reads my work (thank you), every depressing story is on the Guardian app.
To contact me, robyn.vinter@theguardian.com.
If you're after bants/japes, I'm doing my best over on insta 💪
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He did. Here's a screenshot I took before I wrote the article. He deleted the post after the article was published
No, Tommy Robinson did not post the video originally—it originated on TikTok from the family's account. Reports claim he shared it on X with a comment, but he has denied this, and no such post is currently on his account. The family has faced abuse as a result.
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I have migrated myself to the other app and I have no friends over there! I have the same handle :)
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I LOVED Dear Evan Hansen at @GrandTheatreLS1 @DearEvanHansen tonight. It's really worth seeing especially if, like my mum, you love to cry your eyes out
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"My Yorkshire garment-worker ancestors would probably have something to say about my wonky seams" This is a delight from @RobynVinter theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
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Former miners celebrate ‘hard-fought’ win in pension scandal. - @RobynVinter theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…
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“I’ve heard people say, ‘Why are our councillors getting involved in things that are going on abroad?’, but without mentioning that UK has historically always put their fingers in every single thing that’s gone on abroad."
w/ @RobynVinter
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This is an amazing piece. This particularly resonates: “There is no one and nothing in my life to step in and catch me if my career goes tits up.”
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When the Southport mosque was targeted by far-right rioters, imam Ibrahim Hussein feared for his life. Now, he said the community is still reeling from its impact, with worshippers requesting counselling to cope.
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w @aamnamohdin + @RobynVinter
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The queen has spoken 💪 theguardian.com/media/articl…
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Robyn Vinter robynvinter@bsky.social retweeted
Disinformation after a knife attack in the UK transformed a local tragedy into nationwide upheaval. @guardian's @RobynVinter explains how it got to this point.
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Important piece by @RobynVinter on the danger faced by journalists at far-right marches.
One veteran photographer, who has covered global conflict, said it was “equally scary” as being in a warzone: “It was a situation like no other in the UK"
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We’ve had reporters in both Rotherham and Middlesbrough today as far-right riots spread across England.
Here’s @RobynVinter and @Emine_Sinmaz on the terrifying attempt to set a hotel housing asylum seekers alight in Rotherham: theguardian.com/uk-news/arti…
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Kerry-Ann Knight was an instructor at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate. Her colleagues would shout “watermelon” whenever she came in the room; they’d play the film Django Unchained on repeat. She was forced out of her job, & has now sued the Army:
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‘We’re in it together’: how unrest in Leeds escalated – and was defused @RobynVinter the best report I’ve read theguardian.com/uk-news/arti…
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RT @nadinebh_: The Bellingham hate is doing my head in, mad how people turn on black players - the man has done more with his 21 years than…
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I have no notifications for social media at all and I've just checked x for the first time in a few days and apparently in my absence I've been subject to a massive (and still ongoing) pile on for saying English people are ugly
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I did get a few aggy men calling me classist at the time (which is quite funny as arguably one of the most vocal journalists about class in the country) but apparently since then literally thousands of guys have clearly been raging at me for days and I didn't notice?
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The whiplash when you're celebrating the lovely talented nice footballers and then it cuts to the stands and you remember what people in England actually look like. Brings you back down to earth with a bump
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I've just been in the train station where an older guy was mouthing off to everyone about how women shouldn't be bus drivers and now I'm on the train with a load of teenage lads who said a female DJ should have "stayed home babysitting" and called another girl a "fucking slut"
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