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Robyn Vinter

@robynvinter.bsky.social
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North of England correspondent at the Guardian. Mostly here to make bad jokes

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Guardian NUJ @gonuj.org · 19/08/2026
Statement from the Guardian NUJ chapel on the death of professor Jason Arday
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I never post on here but I've gravitated over to plug this film I fronted where we went undercover in Laos to expose the illegal wildlife trade
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 17/04/2026
Investigative journalism is how we fight back. We’re backing more queer journalists to deliver it Here’s how 👇🧵
Promotional graphic with a dark red background. Text reads: “New scheme invests in queer accountability journalism and LGBTQIA+ journalists.” Smaller text below reads: “Queer reporters, make a queer newsroom.” At the top, a smartphone mockup displays a webpage titled “Understand the LGBTQIA+ news: Supreme Court ruling changes the landscape for Trans+ rights in the UK.”
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The Exchange @theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
We’re launching a new independent newspaper for Leeds - funded by readers. If you want better local journalism in Leeds, this is how it starts. 👉 Pledge your support: leeds.ghost.io
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
@mitalilive.bsky.social @robynvinter.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards discussed our recent #UKJournalists report @cityjournalism.bsky.social Here's a summary of the panel by @marinaadami.bsky.social reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-cha...
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How to change UK journalism: what we learnt at the launch of our report on the profession today
A panel moderated by our Director, Mitali Mukherjee, discussed tech disruption, a lack of diversity and the uncertain future of young journalists.
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Tonight we'll present our new report on UK journalists in the 2020s at this event at @cityjournalism.bsky.social. Speakers include @robynvinter.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards Register to join in person now buff.ly/9cAqOU9
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
On Monday we'll present our new report on UK journalists in the 2020s at this event at @cityjournalism.bsky.social. Speakers include @robynvinter.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @glendacooper.bsky.social @neilthurman.bsky.social and Kira Richards Register to join in person now buff.ly/cMA9XSB
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Such lovely poignant writing www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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My pet rat is dying. I can’t stop thinking about all the things he taught me | Joseph Earp
Owning and caring for a creature takes us outside of ourselves – not just us insular weirdo artists, but all people
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Sachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Liverpool fans affected by the chaos surrounding the 2022 Champions League final in Paris have the right to have their personal injury claims heard in the UK, a judge has ruled after an attempt by Uefa to block it. By @robynvinter.bsky.social for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Liverpool fans to have 2022 Champions League final injury claims heard in UK
Judge rules in favour of football supporters after Uefa’s attempt to block court claims being held in Liverpool
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Hannah Al-Othman @hannahalothman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Love this story from colleagues @joshhalliday.bsky.social and @robynvinter.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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York Minster congregation outraged over ‘deeply inappropriate’ concert
Gig at cathedral by metal band Plague of Angels would be ‘outright insult’ to their faith, say parishioners
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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The wind is fair stepping up now in Glasgow, but for the dog out earlier this morning it was merely an opportunity for more sticks
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
1. Perhaps Prevent failed to pick up on the danger signs from Axel Rudakubana partly because, in common with other anti-terrorist and anti-extremist bodies, it was politically captured and deployed against peaceful protesters and peaceful Muslims. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Who are the real extremists? The people challenging injustices or those trying to shut down our rights? | George Monbiot
Look at a new report proposing horrifying clampdowns on protest – and ask where the threat to our society truly lies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I don't know what makes it apparently biologically impossible for men to work out silently in the gym. Yet another thing women can do absolutely consistently but many men don't seem to be able to manage at all
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I do feel sorry for some of these guys (but some of them are objectively hilarious). I just can't help thinking lots of problems can be avoided if you don't date materialistic people and/or don't try to show off your wealth www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...
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Inside the dating lives of 12 single men: how bad is it on the apps?
Men from 27 to 70 give their very honest accounts of what it’s really like in the trenches of modern romance
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Morning from the Yorkshire Dales! We have now entered day three snowed in at the Tan Hill Inn, Britain's highest pub
a picture taken from inside a cosy pub at breakfast time with coffee cups on the table and snow covering the windows
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
And I'm still here!
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
‘A cultural shift’: drinkers hit Hull’s Low Ale Trail for alcohol-free options. - @robynvinter.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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‘A cultural shift’: drinkers hit Hull’s Low Ale Trail for alcohol-free options
On ‘Mad Friday’, many festive revellers are choosing low- or no-alcohol drinks on pub crawl touring Hull’s city centre
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Secret Drug Addict @scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
On ‘Mad Friday’, many festive revellers are choosing low- or no-alcohol drinks @robynvinter.bsky.social
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‘A cultural shift’: drinkers hit Hull’s Low Ale Trail for alcohol-free options
On ‘Mad Friday’, many festive revellers are choosing low- or no-alcohol drinks on pub crawl touring Hull’s city centre
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
In case anyone missed it yesterday, this feature about the owner of Sam Smiths pubs is so interesting www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
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Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain
Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But time after time, he has left the buildings empty. Why has he allowed his empire to moulder?
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Maeve Shearlaw @maeveshearlaw.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I’m on the phones for the last hour with @shattenstone.bsky.social @harryfoxdavies.bsky.social @peterwalker99.bsky.social @robynvinter.bsky.social and others … Give us a call / give us your money 0203 353 4368 www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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The Guardian and Observer charity telethon 2024: speak to our journalists and donate
Marina Hyde, John Crace and Simon Hattenstone are among those ready to take your calls to raise money for War Child, Médecins Sans Frontières and Parallel Histories
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Such a weird experience today, genuinely a rare classist situation that I virtually never experience. Got introduced to a drunk very posh guy whose birthday it was and he said "help yourself to food but please don't steal anything". And he said the second bit twice
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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Israeli tanks crossing into the Syrian buffer zone today in the Golan Heights. No sign this incursion is slowing down
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
If anyone hasn't seen it, I always thought this was completely fascinating by Forensic Architecture, from detainees' memories of being tortured at Sednaya prison under the Assad regime. I saw it at the Louisiana art museum in Copenhagen a couple of years ago forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...
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Forensic Architecture
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Quite mad how hard it is to buy an apple in a British airport. Just an apple, that's all I want
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
So much to admire in the life of Barbara Taylor Bradford. Born in Armley, first female editor of the Yorkshire Evening Post, in her 40s when her first novel was published, sold more than 91 million books in total www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
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Novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford dies aged 91
Author described as ‘the grande dame of blockbusters’ wrote 40 novels, selling more than 91m copies
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I feared this might be duck-related hate but it sounds like it's just students being students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Statue of University of York celebrity duck Long Boi damaged - BBC News
Tribute to duck is vandalised just weeks after being unveiled by Radio 1 host Greg James.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/11/2024
5. Bluesky's team consists of about 20 full-time employees. That's a million users here per employee now 🤯 Also, we're hiring! bsky.social/about/join
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 19/11/2024
Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US 👇
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Does anyone else get a massive ick when news/documentary presenters say "I did an investigation..." or "I uncovered..." because it's so transparent that it wasn't their work? So often it's a researcher or a junior journalist who did the hard stuff, often using print reporters' investigations
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Quite a nice feature: you get a notification if someone joins bluesky via a starter pack you made
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
All social media should have a "half-mute" function for people who you do actually really like and want to keep in touch with but who are just very online, bless them
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I'm in a library where the ambient temperature is just a couple of degrees lower than comfortable but they also require you to lock your coat in a locker outside. I thought about smuggling in a cup of tea but I can say with 100% certainty that I'd end up probably quite severely scalded
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I've started a north of England journalists starter pack. Please do flag others for inclusion! go.bsky.app/EyHBenr
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A print for that special family member who's into pre-Christian supermarket sex Link to shop in bio
Scene is WAITROSE CUSTOMER SERVICES DESK. Behind it is a staff member, whose name we will soon learn is BECKY. She is dealing with a customer, for now out of shot, while talking to her manager on the phone.

BECKY [on phone]: 
Yeah, hiya...


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BECKY:
Yes I have a customer here who wants to complain about the Easter eggs.

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BECKY [putting hand over receiver while addressing the customer stood at the desk in front of her]:
Sorry what was your name again?

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[Pull back to show the customer is a very tall, green-skinned, PAGAN GODDESS, festooned with flowers. Stood next to her is her son, a normal human teenager in a hoodie, who looks mortified by his mum.]

PAGAN GODDESS:
Eostre the Pagan Goddess of Fertility

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BECKY
Sorry -
Your name is Easter…?

PAGAN GODDESS:
Eostre.

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VICKY:
Your name is Easter and you want to complain about the Easter eggs.

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PAGAN GODDESS:
Sorry love, what’s your name?

BECKY:
Becky

PAGAN GODDESS:
Well, Vicky -

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PAGAN GODDESS:
If it was you who’d shagged the solar god of the Equinox to give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here -

TEENAGE BOY:
Muuum…

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PAGAN GODDESS:
….only to have all your efforts totally forgotten by history, you’d have a complaint too!

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PAGAN GODDESS:
Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival!

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BECKY:
You mean… Jesus…?

PAGAN GODDESS:
I mean shagging, Vicky.

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PAGAN GODDESS:
Is it too much to see  just a little bit of pre-Christian sex in Aisle 4?

TEENAGE BOY:
MUUUUM
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
One thing I remember from the early days of twitter was that the 3,000-7,000 follower mark was the sweet point. Less and you feel a bit lonely, more and you can't keep track or reply to people properly
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I don't know what you guys think but I definitely feel like this app already has the critical mass necessary to sustain itself. Mission accomplished imo!
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
"Whereas once parents lived vicariously through their children’s successes, now it seems their kids live vicariously through their parents’ struggles." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Bank of Mum and Dad: why we all now live in an ‘inheritocracy’
Family wealth dictates our life choices. So is the Bank of Mum and Dad now behind so many of society’s growing inequalities?
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Meeting friends in Soho, looking forward to approximately one hour of socialising before everywhere closes
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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
bird sounds
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
If anyone has any Tromsø recommendations, I've got a little solo trip coming up and would be very grateful for tips!
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I really don’t understand this whole ‘stay on Twitter and fight’ thing. You’re jousting with bots and reply guys and wading through ads it’s not Waterloo.
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I feel like there will be movie studios buying the rights to this article www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...
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Jake Paul beats Mike Tyson in manufactured mismatch as Father Time comes calling
Jake Paul won a unanimous decision by two scores of 79-73 and a 80-72 shutout as the former world champion was unable to land telling blows
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Still not sure how to find the weird people from twitter, you know the ones where no list could possibly contain them
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Such beautiful, honest writing. I'd be surprised if there was any woman who didn't relate to at least a part of this
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I remember telling colleagues I wasn't going to try another platform after Threads and Mastodon, that I was completely done. All it took was a tiny dose of fomo www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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What is Bluesky and why are so many people suddenly leaving X for the platform?
Users turn to the heavily moderated network after warnings about misinformation on Elon Musk’s X
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Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
It's been so long since I used twitter (because of the obvious, plus the constant far right abuse and harassment) that I've actually forgotten what I used to post about
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Sanya Burgess @sanyaburgess.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
What are you going to sue me, over my bloops? Celeb breaks silence in emotional bloops. The bloop that's taking the internet by storm! ... see, it works in every situation
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