Irim Sarwar
@irimtated.bsky.social
Pragmatic idealist, mystic, former churchwarden, at sea. Hybrid vigour in all things, not least faith. She/her
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I've been sending my daughter quirky subject specific 🍀 msgs in the mornings of each prelim.Today's is my favourite 😆
May your calculator be fully charged, your brackets always close, and your 'x' finally find itself. Go smash that Nat 5 Maths! May the blessings of Al Khwarizmi show you the way! 😀
May your calculator be fully charged, your brackets always close, and your 'x' finally find itself. Go smash that Nat 5 Maths! May the blessings of Al Khwarizmi show you the way! 😀
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I've been sending my daughter quirky subject specific 🍀 msgs in the mornings of each prelim.Today's is my favourite 😆
May your calculator be fully charged, your brackets always close, and your 'x' finally find itself. Go smash that Nat 5 Maths! May the blessings of Al Khwarizmi show you the way! 😀
May your calculator be fully charged, your brackets always close, and your 'x' finally find itself. Go smash that Nat 5 Maths! May the blessings of Al Khwarizmi show you the way! 😀
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The only report on the Beeb's governance you need to read.
Although it does make you wonder if someone at the water company accidentally flipped the switch from 'fluoride' to 'crazy pills'.
Although it does make you wonder if someone at the water company accidentally flipped the switch from 'fluoride' to 'crazy pills'.
Auntie In The Dock: my SKETCH of Today in People Who Love The BBC And Definitely Didn't Leak Anything To The Telegraph.
Auntie in the dock | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
“I have been defined by these two years at Number 10,” Robbie Gibb complained, sounding for all the world like the chap in the joke who only shagged one sheep. How dare anyone suggest that this…
thecritic.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The only report on the Beeb's governance you need to read.
Although it does make you wonder if someone at the water company accidentally flipped the switch from 'fluoride' to 'crazy pills'.
Although it does make you wonder if someone at the water company accidentally flipped the switch from 'fluoride' to 'crazy pills'.
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Quite enjoying #Watson, but *his father would have to have had Huntington's disease for him to have it*. It's autosomal dominant; his uncle isn't close enough.
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Quite enjoying #Watson, but *his father would have to have had Huntington's disease for him to have it*. It's autosomal dominant; his uncle isn't close enough.
It is really weird seeing Fred Waterford be a loving husband. #Prisoner951
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It is really weird seeing Fred Waterford be a loving husband. #Prisoner951
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okay so here’s the thing about being racist, right
you can’t do it nicely!!! There is no kind or complimentary way to be racist!!!
you can’t do it nicely!!! There is no kind or complimentary way to be racist!!!
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
okay so here’s the thing about being racist, right
you can’t do it nicely!!! There is no kind or complimentary way to be racist!!!
you can’t do it nicely!!! There is no kind or complimentary way to be racist!!!
In honour of Dharmendra, a Bollywood giant, who died today, I give you one of my all time favourite Bollywood songs - Aaj Mausam from 'Loafer' (1973). He starred in 300 films over 65 years.
youtu.be/q_RvYmPxpAE
youtu.be/q_RvYmPxpAE
Aaj Mausam Bada Beimaan Hai - Mohammad Rafi - Loafer (1973) - HD
YouTube video by Akram Ramay
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
In honour of Dharmendra, a Bollywood giant, who died today, I give you one of my all time favourite Bollywood songs - Aaj Mausam from 'Loafer' (1973). He starred in 300 films over 65 years.
youtu.be/q_RvYmPxpAE
youtu.be/q_RvYmPxpAE
Because the cold hard truth is that government isn't doing nearly enough and should be spending more on infrastructure and safety net.
Any waste will be found in the defense [sic] budget with contractors.
Any waste will be found in the defense [sic] budget with contractors.
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Because the cold hard truth is that government isn't doing nearly enough and should be spending more on infrastructure and safety net.
Any waste will be found in the defense [sic] budget with contractors.
Any waste will be found in the defense [sic] budget with contractors.
Dear white people,
I say this with all the love in the world, but 'It must be wonderful to have your heritage,' as lovely as it sounds, is a form of either fishing ('I think I know, but') or racial fetishisation, or both. And that is a form of...colonialism/racism. Don't. Just speak to me normally.
I say this with all the love in the world, but 'It must be wonderful to have your heritage,' as lovely as it sounds, is a form of either fishing ('I think I know, but') or racial fetishisation, or both. And that is a form of...colonialism/racism. Don't. Just speak to me normally.
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Dear white people,
I say this with all the love in the world, but 'It must be wonderful to have your heritage,' as lovely as it sounds, is a form of either fishing ('I think I know, but') or racial fetishisation, or both. And that is a form of...colonialism/racism. Don't. Just speak to me normally.
I say this with all the love in the world, but 'It must be wonderful to have your heritage,' as lovely as it sounds, is a form of either fishing ('I think I know, but') or racial fetishisation, or both. And that is a form of...colonialism/racism. Don't. Just speak to me normally.
You can have the green bean casserole and I'll take your gravy.
Fuck it. I’m ditching gravy.
with charity and goodwill, i must here part ways with rolls.
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
You can have the green bean casserole and I'll take your gravy.
Get out of here. You're the one who destroyed the NHS & now you're demanding more from it. Got this done privately, did you?
If you wanted more proper screenings and doctors who could diagnose rather than dismiss patients, you should have put the money in.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
If you wanted more proper screenings and doctors who could diagnose rather than dismiss patients, you should have put the money in.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
David Cameron reveals prostate cancer diagnosis and calls for targeted screening
Former prime minister says he wants to join ranks of those pressing for more checks on men who may have disease
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Get out of here. You're the one who destroyed the NHS & now you're demanding more from it. Got this done privately, did you?
If you wanted more proper screenings and doctors who could diagnose rather than dismiss patients, you should have put the money in.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
If you wanted more proper screenings and doctors who could diagnose rather than dismiss patients, you should have put the money in.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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They remain the only government in my lifetime without a theory of how economic growth happens and a determination that it definitely not be through universities, immigration, high skilled services, tax simplification, trade relations etc
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
They remain the only government in my lifetime without a theory of how economic growth happens and a determination that it definitely not be through universities, immigration, high skilled services, tax simplification, trade relations etc
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Amen. That goes for this week's Euromillions as well.
Also, if I ever receive £1.2M and I only have to pay 10% tax on it, I'm staying very fucking quiet, not whining to a reporter about it's unfairness
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Amen. That goes for this week's Euromillions as well.
Hard same.
possibly they'd just assumed primary residences were fully exempt. I'd understand it more if it was something that had just happened, but she died in April. "it's so unfair we have to pay inheritance tax on a massive unearned million-pound profit". sorry, zero sympathy here.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Hard same.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph - you use services, pay the bloody tax. The sheer privilege of this: oh, the house is £1.2 million, we have to pay a paltry £148,000 on it.
If I had my way, you'd be paying £600K. Get out of here.
If I had my way, you'd be paying £600K. Get out of here.
I don't think this was actually deliberately published as ragebait, but the entitlement contained within is remarkable and a classic example of the sort of sentiment governments sometimes just have to face down inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...?
We were hit with a £148k inheritance tax bill when mum died at 97 - it's disgusting
Jill Lemon has labelled inheritance tax as 'cruel', 'horrible' and 'unfair'
inews.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph - you use services, pay the bloody tax. The sheer privilege of this: oh, the house is £1.2 million, we have to pay a paltry £148,000 on it.
If I had my way, you'd be paying £600K. Get out of here.
If I had my way, you'd be paying £600K. Get out of here.
We're all disgusted by this, but no one is surprised.
Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
We're all disgusted by this, but no one is surprised.
Well, if they voted for Trump or thought it didn't matter if they voted, or they 'don't do politics', actions have consequences.
“.. Paying for the house, the car, the necessity bills — I just couldn't do it anymore.”
@cbsnews.com
www.cbsnews.com/news/housing...
@cbsnews.com
www.cbsnews.com/news/housing...
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Well, if they voted for Trump or thought it didn't matter if they voted, or they 'don't do politics', actions have consequences.
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To add to this - it's not like the public is being well served by broadcast news moving at the pace of 24 hour scrolling and the politically obsessed - it just means every election large numbers of people end up googling 'what is austerity?' 'What is brownfield?' etc. etc.
This is bizarre. Like the editor of the guardian or mail or any other paper complaining repeatedly about the front page lead they decided to run with.
Very good example of what's wrong with broadcast news - they've given up deciding for themselves what is or isn't news and what the priorities are
Very good example of what's wrong with broadcast news - they've given up deciding for themselves what is or isn't news and what the priorities are
It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
November 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
To add to this - it's not like the public is being well served by broadcast news moving at the pace of 24 hour scrolling and the politically obsessed - it just means every election large numbers of people end up googling 'what is austerity?' 'What is brownfield?' etc. etc.
What we DO all know is that if #Nazanin was white, the UK would have had her home in days.
I hate the men profoundly, but let me tell you, I hate the women who prop this up - whether white, Iranian, South Asian, whatever - with the fire of a thousand suns.
Boris should be in jail for this.
I hate the men profoundly, but let me tell you, I hate the women who prop this up - whether white, Iranian, South Asian, whatever - with the fire of a thousand suns.
Boris should be in jail for this.
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
What we DO all know is that if #Nazanin was white, the UK would have had her home in days.
I hate the men profoundly, but let me tell you, I hate the women who prop this up - whether white, Iranian, South Asian, whatever - with the fire of a thousand suns.
Boris should be in jail for this.
I hate the men profoundly, but let me tell you, I hate the women who prop this up - whether white, Iranian, South Asian, whatever - with the fire of a thousand suns.
Boris should be in jail for this.
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It is a truly depressing indictment of politics that Lord My wife won't sleep with me because of progressives Glasman has such sway and is treated even remotely seriously by some in power.
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It is a truly depressing indictment of politics that Lord My wife won't sleep with me because of progressives Glasman has such sway and is treated even remotely seriously by some in power.
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There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.