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Robert Wright

@reporterrwright.ft.com

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Newsroom reporter at the Financial Times, clergy spouse, rider of bicycles. "I just wanted to see something new every day and tell a story with it": Gus Haynes.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 23h

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 17h

“People who mix less and fewer”.

Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 17h

‘The 2025 Conservative Party Conference’

Shar A @sharal.bsky.social · 18h

“Give it some minge!” he exclaimed.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 19h

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 17h

Heavily Hindu seats in north-west London are now the Tories’ safest seats.
While I take on board @roberthutton.co.uk’s point, I think a lot of their voters there love their tendency to say disobliging things about Muslims.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 17h

I like your current sketching-with-a-purpose persona.

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Gavin Shuker @gavinshuker.bsky.social · 18h

I could write for a long time, and never produce an intro as good and, crucially, important, as @roberthutton.co.uk.

‘The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something.’

thecritic.co.uk/rob-whistle/

Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting the...

thecritic.co.uk

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 18h

Being an older person in Portland really looks the way one might think.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 18h

Shoutout to the Boomers, really showing everybody else up in 2025

Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 22h

I think they've got "in the manner of Sir John Soane" and "cluttered" confused. They're not the same thing.

Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 1d

But I suspect she’s not looking at BlueSky anyway.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 1d

I see from this morning’s Politico Playbook that Robert Jenrick’s wife reads out comments about him to motivate him. So now I’m tempted to post that he seems like the kind of man whose wife would perpetually be wondering if she could have married better.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 1d

Great to see you’re back to commenting on issues related to animals, @alanbeattie.bsky.social

Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 1d

I think it's striking that Conservative policy is currently that, when looking at this video, one should be on the side of the masked thugs: bsky.app/profile/cris...

Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 1d

They should take it out and replace it with a reference to " @twlldun.bsky.social's social media posts", really.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 1d

But I also automatically thought it related to Glasgow Rangers. And that made me, too, sad.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 2d

This video is one of the things I’ve seen in the last little while that’s given me most optimism about the future of the United States.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 3d

I appreciate all the complexities. I think they reinforce my point rather than undermining it, though. The whole process shows how ineffective the state has become. L

Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 3d

Exactly

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 3d

Camouflage gear for fishing is ridiculous. The fish don't have periscopes. You're just hiding from your wives.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 3d

I actually wonder if the state’s declining effectiveness encourages this phenomenon somehow.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 3d

And the state is growing less and less effective at the same time. One relatively trivial example is fly-tipping. There are steep fines for it and rewards for those who turn in offenders. But the problem grows worse and worse in many places.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 3d

Oh - and she has to organise a “harvest hunt” for the children.

Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 3d

@susanrwright.bsky.social has an 8am BCP communion, is presiding at 10am, has three baptisms at noon and evensong.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 3d

Solidarity from our clergy household to yours.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 3d

I'd prefer a clear, written constitution. But the UK definitely has a constitution.

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