Zamira Rahim
@zamirarahim.bsky.social
Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
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Zamira Rahim
@zamirarahim.bsky.social
· Jun 15
Got to see my fiction in print for the first time, which has been a weirdly emotional experience. You spend five years squinting at something on a Google Doc and it doesn't seem real, until suddenly it very much is.
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There are many subtle and complex arguments one can have about the future of the BBC — but I guarantee you that no other channel or streaming service will be as committed to factual programming, children’s education, history shows, religious discussion, poetry, arts, or state of the nation debate
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
There are many subtle and complex arguments one can have about the future of the BBC — but I guarantee you that no other channel or streaming service will be as committed to factual programming, children’s education, history shows, religious discussion, poetry, arts, or state of the nation debate
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Robbie Gibb should quite simply not be in that role. He makes no pretence of his own bias. While he has power the BBC will continue to rot.
November 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Robbie Gibb should quite simply not be in that role. He makes no pretence of his own bias. While he has power the BBC will continue to rot.
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if you pare back expertise and experience, you end up with a newsroom full of well-meaning kids with no old lags to go "er, no, you need to make clear that that's an edited speech"; you end up with an emasculated Newsnight; you end up with no scope to do time-consuming investigations.
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
if you pare back expertise and experience, you end up with a newsroom full of well-meaning kids with no old lags to go "er, no, you need to make clear that that's an edited speech"; you end up with an emasculated Newsnight; you end up with no scope to do time-consuming investigations.
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‘If the BBC was able today to report what it thinks, it would say this: there has been a coup’
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qW3MeA
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qW3MeA
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC | The Observer
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November 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
‘If the BBC was able today to report what it thinks, it would say this: there has been a coup’
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qW3MeA
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC
https://bit.ly/4qW3MeA
Heard Carol of the Bells for the first time this year and am reminded that this is my favourite season because of all the good choral music that spills out of shops, radios and random train stations
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Heard Carol of the Bells for the first time this year and am reminded that this is my favourite season because of all the good choral music that spills out of shops, radios and random train stations
South Asian diaspora mothers are about to be absolutely unbearable today and you know what, let them enjoy themselves
November 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
South Asian diaspora mothers are about to be absolutely unbearable today and you know what, let them enjoy themselves
Dress has slightly ripped on the way to an event but it's okay, reading Little Women has trained me for this moment.
November 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Dress has slightly ripped on the way to an event but it's okay, reading Little Women has trained me for this moment.
I'd forgotten how much I love a deservedly scathing review www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
November 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I'd forgotten how much I love a deservedly scathing review www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
I'd love to read an Iraqi writer's perspective on Dick Cheney's legacy today
November 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I'd love to read an Iraqi writer's perspective on Dick Cheney's legacy today
My first thought was 'How does this fit into the narrative spun by Matt Goodwin and co'? And then I realised I was only thinking that because of this chap's name. So in a way, their rot has already set in, even within myself.
November 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
My first thought was 'How does this fit into the narrative spun by Matt Goodwin and co'? And then I realised I was only thinking that because of this chap's name. So in a way, their rot has already set in, even within myself.
"Wallace Shawn from Gossip Girl"
I mean mine is probable "Wallace Shawn from Clueless"
I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”
November 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
"Wallace Shawn from Gossip Girl"
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Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
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'With any art form, if ABC is expected from it, how can it surprise, challenge, develop cultures, reflect and revolutionise the way we see the world?'
Sarah Hall talks to @tanjilrashid.bsky.social @newstatesman1913.bsky.social about her remarkable novel, Helm.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
Sarah Hall talks to @tanjilrashid.bsky.social @newstatesman1913.bsky.social about her remarkable novel, Helm.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
Sarah Hall: "I wanted readers to experience dystopia"
The Goldsmith Prize-shortlisted author on making climate catastrophe feel real in fiction
www.newstatesman.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
'With any art form, if ABC is expected from it, how can it surprise, challenge, develop cultures, reflect and revolutionise the way we see the world?'
Sarah Hall talks to @tanjilrashid.bsky.social @newstatesman1913.bsky.social about her remarkable novel, Helm.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
Sarah Hall talks to @tanjilrashid.bsky.social @newstatesman1913.bsky.social about her remarkable novel, Helm.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.
November 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.
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Everything quietens and slows. Some live on;
some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores.
We are rich with life and can’t outrun it.
From the title poem of Rob Hindle's collection 'Sapo', available with £2 off until Sunday
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores.
We are rich with life and can’t outrun it.
From the title poem of Rob Hindle's collection 'Sapo', available with £2 off until Sunday
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Everything quietens and slows. Some live on;
some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores.
We are rich with life and can’t outrun it.
From the title poem of Rob Hindle's collection 'Sapo', available with £2 off until Sunday
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores.
We are rich with life and can’t outrun it.
From the title poem of Rob Hindle's collection 'Sapo', available with £2 off until Sunday
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Once again a gentle reminder that brown women can be pretty right wing. Their minority status in the West does not stop that from happening. You don't need to reach for any other explanation.
October 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Once again a gentle reminder that brown women can be pretty right wing. Their minority status in the West does not stop that from happening. You don't need to reach for any other explanation.
My favourite theory about Aarom Sorkin is that he desperately wants to write a rom-com but keeps throwing politics or media in there for Plot
It’s a kind of cultural narcissism I think. It’s a show set in the White House, therefore it’s about The Politics all of the time.
I suspect both Sorkin and the average viewer were much more interested in whether Josh and Donna were going to go anywhere than Bartlet’s legislative agenda
I suspect both Sorkin and the average viewer were much more interested in whether Josh and Donna were going to go anywhere than Bartlet’s legislative agenda
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 AM
My favourite theory about Aarom Sorkin is that he desperately wants to write a rom-com but keeps throwing politics or media in there for Plot
I would love to know the conversations the Queen had with Charles about this back when she was still alive
Yikes. Basically saying “we always knew he was a fucking wrong’un & now mums dead we’re getting rid”.
BREAKING
Prince Andrew will no longer be a Prince of the United Kingdom.
In an extraordinary move, Buckingham Palace has announced that the King is stripping him of that style.
Presumably, he will now be known as Andrew Windsor.
The Palace also stated he has been ordered to leave Royal Lodge.
Prince Andrew will no longer be a Prince of the United Kingdom.
In an extraordinary move, Buckingham Palace has announced that the King is stripping him of that style.
Presumably, he will now be known as Andrew Windsor.
The Palace also stated he has been ordered to leave Royal Lodge.
October 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I would love to know the conversations the Queen had with Charles about this back when she was still alive
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Yeah, I mean, it probably wouldn't really strike people outside the UK, but that is exceptionally blunt for a royal statement.
Yikes. Basically saying “we always knew he was a fucking wrong’un & now mums dead we’re getting rid”.
BREAKING
Prince Andrew will no longer be a Prince of the United Kingdom.
In an extraordinary move, Buckingham Palace has announced that the King is stripping him of that style.
Presumably, he will now be known as Andrew Windsor.
The Palace also stated he has been ordered to leave Royal Lodge.
Prince Andrew will no longer be a Prince of the United Kingdom.
In an extraordinary move, Buckingham Palace has announced that the King is stripping him of that style.
Presumably, he will now be known as Andrew Windsor.
The Palace also stated he has been ordered to leave Royal Lodge.
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Yeah, I mean, it probably wouldn't really strike people outside the UK, but that is exceptionally blunt for a royal statement.
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This such a perfect patriotic 🇬🇧 Fleet Street cock-up. It's one thing for a news outlet to be duped by a competent hoaxer. Excruciating, yes, but there's a fairly long history of such fuck ups. But to put out a statement SAYING you'd been hoaxed but you'd actually just emailed the wrong guy?
October 30, 2025 at 6:34 AM
This such a perfect patriotic 🇬🇧 Fleet Street cock-up. It's one thing for a news outlet to be duped by a competent hoaxer. Excruciating, yes, but there's a fairly long history of such fuck ups. But to put out a statement SAYING you'd been hoaxed but you'd actually just emailed the wrong guy?
A gorgeous new Simon Armitage poem (Beaded Chestnut) in The New Statesman www.newstatesman.com/culture/poet...
October 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
A gorgeous new Simon Armitage poem (Beaded Chestnut) in The New Statesman www.newstatesman.com/culture/poet...
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PSA for #FilmSky people!
The BFI has made some of its #LFF ‘in conversation’ events available to view for free.
Here’s a link to the discussion with Lynne Ramsay:
player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...
The BFI has made some of its #LFF ‘in conversation’ events available to view for free.
Here’s a link to the discussion with Lynne Ramsay:
player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...
Watch Lynne Ramsay Screen Talk | BFI London Film Festival 2025 - BFI Player
Lynne Ramsay discusses her singular career populated by visually intoxicating, ground-breaking and provocative films.
player.bfi.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
PSA for #FilmSky people!
The BFI has made some of its #LFF ‘in conversation’ events available to view for free.
Here’s a link to the discussion with Lynne Ramsay:
player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...
The BFI has made some of its #LFF ‘in conversation’ events available to view for free.
Here’s a link to the discussion with Lynne Ramsay:
player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...
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Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)
October 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)