Rob Williams

If you're laughing about children dying you've lost your humanity When dead children prompt laughing emojis, the problem isn't just politics - it's something far deeper, writes Rob Williams.

After the M.E.N posted the tragic story about 3 people (2 of them kids), dying in the channel this week - their facebook post was met with three thousand laughing emojis

Comments included "fish gotta eat" & "best news I've heard all week"

Horrendous

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news...

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If you're laughing about children dying you've lost your humanity <span id="docs-internal-guid-6fa104c5-7fff-60f0-d466-11969f90ed51">When dead children prompt laughing emojis, the problem isn&apos;t just politics - it&apos;s something far deeper, writes Rob Williams...

Wrote about our readers’ responses to the deaths in the English Channel.

13.09.2025 08:00 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to say I am now working as a freelance journalist based in Manchester and am interested in opportunities for shifting.

Feel free to message me!

#journalism

22.08.2025 13:09 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

There are scenes in the #mirrorandthelight that so accurately capture the mood, setting and language of the books that I really felt like I’d seen them before. It’s a remarkable achievement.

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Salford Lads Club saved as £250k fundraising target smashed after M.E.N. appeal 'One thing we can all agree about is that this place is unique and irreplaceable'

Fantastic news> Salford Lads Club SAVED from closure as £250k target smashed following Manchester Evening News appeal. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

28.11.2024 12:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Anthony Whitehead (left) and David Marsh (right)

🧵: Today saw the end of a thirty year ordeal for the victims of Anthony Whitehead (left) and David Marsh (right). Both men were jailed at Minshull St Crown Court for their sinister and depraved sexual abuse against young boys in the 80s and 90s in Rochdale [1/10] @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

27.11.2024 21:21 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Smiling and shirtless with a young boy on his lap, he was hiding in plain sight "We are all enjoying ourselves"

Smiling and shirtless with a young boy on his lap, he said to the camera: “We are all enjoying ourselves”.
He has now been jailed for 27 years

@manchestereveningnews.co.uk

27.11.2024 18:37 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

What really happened in town on Saturday afternoon Were police protecting Manchester city centre or was this a case of heavy-handed policing and the profiling of a whole community? John Scheerhout examines a complex row sparked by travellers attemptin...

There were troubling scenes in Manchester city centre on Saturday afternoon. Good piece from reporter John Scheerhout looking at what happened and why.

25.11.2024 21:35 — 👍 1    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

A bit of a change in job for me. From January I’ll be features and perspectives editor @MENnewsdesk - looking after long reads, comment, investigations and lots of other stuff. Let me know what we should be writing about.

22.11.2024 18:20 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I think my first post on here should be a picture of beer. Cheers.

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