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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 22h

Police forces across the U.K. regularly bar football fans of a wide variety of clubs from attending some away matches when police have reason to believe allowing fans to attend may pose a risk to public safety. That’s a decision for the police and should have been the end of the matter.

#ukpolitics

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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 4d

Somewhere two metal detectorists who look eerily like Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones are muttering into the pints they bought with muddy loose change detected that afternoon

Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 4d

A man digging for worms in southeastern Sweden discovered a medieval hoard containing pearls, pendants, silver rings, and an estimated 20,000 coins. Archaeologists determined that most of the silver coins date to the 12th century.

Up to 20,000 coins from Early Middle Ages discovered by man digging for worms near Stockholm

A man digging for worms at his summer house in Sweden has unearthed a stupendous treasure: a silver hoard of up to 20,000 coins from the Early Middle Ages.

www.livescience.com

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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 4d

Trump announcing plans for an “Arc de Trump”

Because sometimes you look at the news and think “god is it really April already?”

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reposted by Kit Roberts

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5d

All of this is being put out to placate the right wing press...

In the meantime, it's causing fear & confusion. As I understand it:

● this only applies to some people on skilled visas
● it's not "A level English" it's something called SELT
● much the same requirement exists elsewhere in EU

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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 4d

Write a 500 word essay on dominant themes in Dracula or we’ll deport you.

“Dracula can be read as an allegory of the fear of foreigners and immigra-“

NO NOT LIKE THAT

#ukpolitics

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 5d

"When is a party not a party?"

"When it's at your house."

Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 5d

Happy anniversary of the Battle of Hastings to those who celebrate

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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 8d

Touché. 🤣

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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 9d

The boy this man stabbed to death was just 16 years old and had fled war in Homs to find a better life for himself in the UK.

Heartbreaking and horrifying.

Man who fatally stabbed teenage Syrian refugee detained for life

Alfie Franco, 20, stabbed 16-year-old Syrian refugee Ahmad Al Ibrahim after he brushed past his girlfriend

www.independent.co.uk

Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 11d

Starmer in India: “This is the biggest trade mission that the United Kingdom has ever sent to India.”

Not *quite* sure that’s true. 😬

#starmer #india #uknews

Sir Keir Starmer has begun Britain's first full-blown trade mission to India since Theresa May was prime minister, bringing 125 UK CEOs, entrepreneurs, and university leaders to Mumbai. Sky's Sam Coa...

TikTok video by Sky News

www.tiktok.com

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James Moules @jamesmoules.bsky.social · 13d

🗳️ Sir John Curtice has warned Labour that Reform UK is not their only electoral threat, with left-wing parties also posing a challenge.

My latest for @labourlist.bsky.social here ⬇️
labourlist.org/2025/10/labo...

Labour making a 'mistake' to focus entirely on Reform, Sir John Curtice warns - LabourList

Sir John Curtice has warned Labour that Reform UK is not their only electoral threat, with left-wing parties also posing a challenge.

labourlist.org

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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 13d

Was in Manchester City centre today and passed by outside the Tory party conference.

A fair few police but not loads, and basically zero protestors. You’d barely know it was happening.

Feels like it means something, though not sure what… 🙄

#toryconference #tories #politics

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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 15d

Absolutely awful.

CNN @cnn.com · 15d

JUST IN: A UK mosque was set ablaze with two people still inside in a suspected arson attack that police are treating as a hate crime.

UK mosque set ablaze with two people inside, police investigating suspected hate crime | CNN

A UK mosque was set ablaze with two people still inside in a suspected arson attack that police are treating as a hate crime.

edition.cnn.com

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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 18d

Solidarity with Manchester's Jewish community today following the horrific attacks.

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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 19d

That feeling when your first invoice comes through as a self-employed person

#business

The cover of Brian Butterfield’s book “There’s No Business Like BUSINESS”

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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 20d

Alarming behaviour from Labour in barring certain journalists from their party conference.

Not a good look at all.

#press #labour

Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown.bsky.social · 20d

Labour rescinded my conference pass over an unspecified "breach of the event code of conduct".

10 minutes later, @owenjones.bsky.social received a similar email.

This is a terrifying, authoritarian crackdown on press freedom.

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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 20d

This.

Assad treated Palestinians in Syria like 2nd-class citizens and used the regime's tokenistic 'war' on Israel to justify expanded powers and intensified oppression against Syrian civilians, including Palestinians in Syria.

You cannot be pro-Assad and pro-Palestine. Corbyn couldn't see this.

Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 20d

While today he presents himself as the defender of Palestinians under Israeli bombardment, the Russian intervention in Syria was supported by Labour’s former leader Jeremy Corbyn, and his director of communications Seamus Milne.

This is why Syrians continue to despise him.
bsky.app/profile/ozka...

Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 20d

On this day 10 years ago, Russia entered the Syrian civil war on behalf of the Assad regime, devastating infrastructure, displacing millions and murdering thousands of Syrian civilians.

Despite all of these widespread crimes, Moscow and Assad would go on to lose.

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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 20d

People who are in the UK on work visas pay tax & NI & aren’t entitled to claim benefits because visas are often tied directly to employment.

Making taxpayers “volunteer” is patronising and feels alarmingly like making innocent people do community service, something we make criminals do.

#labour

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 24d

One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 23d

For Warhammer 40k fans in Manchester:

What’s the orks’ favourite place in Greater Manchester?

Krumpsall.

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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 24d

Court throws out Kneecap terrorism charges on a technicality

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh thrown out

Chief magistrate at Woolwich crown court rules that charge brought against musician is unlawful and ‘null’

www.theguardian.com

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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 25d

Ahmed Al-Sharaa gives a speech to the UN general assembly calling for lifting of sanctions on Syria.

He is the first Syrian president to address the UN since before the Assads took power.

#syria #UN #ahmedalsharaa

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcyT...

🇸🇾 Syria - President Addresses United Nations General Debate, 80th Session | #UNGA

YouTube video by United Nations

www.youtube.com

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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 27d

Top three are probably:

Radio 3
Champagne
Eating game meat

The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · 27d

What’s the most Tory-coded thing you actively love?

Me: Essex. Elgar. Country pubs.

Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · 28d

Watching the Charlie Kirk memorial rally I can’t help but wonder if people on the left would be so prone to infighting if they actually tuned in to coverage of these events.

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Kit Roberts @kitrobertsjourno.bsky.social · Sep 12

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been jailed for 27 years for his part in an attempted coup.

Worth remembering that current President Lula had his political origins opposing the military dictatorship.

Democracy’s fragility is well within Brazil’s living memory.

#brazil #worldnews

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