Shazia Saleem
@shaziasaleem.bsky.social
Sustainable fashion expert and designer, founder of Pop London, lecturer in fashion & marketing. Seen & heard: COP26 Glasgow, Stylist Mag, Conde Nast Traveller, BBC Radio. Poplondon.co.uk
What is left for Palestinians here? No buildings, no trees. Our government sat back and watched this unfold.
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Inside Gaza, BBC sees total devastation after two years of war
With endless rubble and destroyed streets as far as the eye can see, any plans for Gaza's future are a far cry from where it is today, writes Lucy Williamson.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
What is left for Palestinians here? No buildings, no trees. Our government sat back and watched this unfold.
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Inside Gaza, BBC sees total devastation after two years of war - BBC News apple.news/A_7SrBjRqS8y...
Inside Gaza, BBC sees total devastation after two years of war — BBC News
With endless rubble and destroyed streets as far as the eye can see, any plans for Gaza's future are a far cry from where it is today, writes Lucy Williamson.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Inside Gaza, BBC sees total devastation after two years of war - BBC News apple.news/A_7SrBjRqS8y...
Listening to BBC radio 4 this morning, why is it politically acceptable to re-nationalise the railways but the government won’t consider the same for water? Every reason the govt rep cited in the interview applies to water. Weird.
November 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Listening to BBC radio 4 this morning, why is it politically acceptable to re-nationalise the railways but the government won’t consider the same for water? Every reason the govt rep cited in the interview applies to water. Weird.
I have signed @weownit.org.uk's petition to block Thames Water's plans to dump sewage in our rivers for the next 15 years. We have until 21st Oct to stop it. Add your name now.
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Thames Water wants to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.
Thames Water wants to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years
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October 21, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I have signed @weownit.org.uk's petition to block Thames Water's plans to dump sewage in our rivers for the next 15 years. We have until 21st Oct to stop it. Add your name now.
weownit.org.uk/act-now/peti...
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Just heard about Afghanistan having the third most land mines and 85% of death and injury from contact are children.
What a world to live in.
UN special rapporteur mentioned this as a side issue, funding to clear land mines has plummeted.
What a world to live in.
UN special rapporteur mentioned this as a side issue, funding to clear land mines has plummeted.
October 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Just heard about Afghanistan having the third most land mines and 85% of death and injury from contact are children.
What a world to live in.
UN special rapporteur mentioned this as a side issue, funding to clear land mines has plummeted.
What a world to live in.
UN special rapporteur mentioned this as a side issue, funding to clear land mines has plummeted.
Of all the issues the home sec could deal with this week. Labour need to re-prioritise.
October 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Of all the issues the home sec could deal with this week. Labour need to re-prioritise.
Thank you @data.ft.com for continuing to cover this story. Tony Blair desperately following the money.
July 7, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Thank you @data.ft.com for continuing to cover this story. Tony Blair desperately following the money.
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I'm not sure he's up for going out in the rain.
June 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I'm not sure he's up for going out in the rain.
Thanos and I waiting for the march for Palestine to start from Westminster.
May 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Thanos and I waiting for the march for Palestine to start from Westminster.
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We're very concerned by the UK Home Office's refusal to grant a visa to PEN Translates award-winner Ibrahima Balde. This raises serious concerns for artistic freedom and exchange – we urge them to reconsider this decision.
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Author denied UK visa unable to attend premiere of play based on his memoir
Exclusive: London theatre urges Home Office to reconsider as Ibrahima Balde unable to watch adaptation of award-winning book
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May 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
We're very concerned by the UK Home Office's refusal to grant a visa to PEN Translates award-winner Ibrahima Balde. This raises serious concerns for artistic freedom and exchange – we urge them to reconsider this decision.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Cleaning out the flat and need to get rid of some of these books so let's have a competition. The next eight people to take out a paid subscription to the newsletter get a signed copy of either the Westminster book or the complete Origin Story set. Sign up here iandunt.substack.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Cleaning out the flat and need to get rid of some of these books so let's have a competition. The next eight people to take out a paid subscription to the newsletter get a signed copy of either the Westminster book or the complete Origin Story set. Sign up here iandunt.substack.com
How can this be the way that we treat asylum seekers in the U.K.? A woman with one arm expected to empty buckets of rain water from a leak in the ceiling, why is she in low quality accomm. Many eg of cruelty in the article.
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Ten assaults a day on asylum seekers in Home Office care, figures reveal
Exclusive: There were 380 safeguarding referrals of victims of hate crimes from January 2023 to August 2024
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April 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
How can this be the way that we treat asylum seekers in the U.K.? A woman with one arm expected to empty buckets of rain water from a leak in the ceiling, why is she in low quality accomm. Many eg of cruelty in the article.
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What happened in Wisconsin is an example of what is most feared: That in a true democracy regular people have more power than a billionaire, that all the money in the world doesn’t change one person one vote.
April 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM
What happened in Wisconsin is an example of what is most feared: That in a true democracy regular people have more power than a billionaire, that all the money in the world doesn’t change one person one vote.
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The second season of “Wolf Hall,” a PBS/BBC adaptation of the novelist Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of the same name, arrives a decade after the first season but it is “arguably greater than its acclaimed predecessor,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
The Second Season of “Wolf Hall” Surpasses Its Acclaimed Predecessor
In the culmination of the Hilary Mantel adaptation, Mark Rylance’s Thomas Cromwell becomes a more poignant figure, weighed down by regrets.
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March 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The second season of “Wolf Hall,” a PBS/BBC adaptation of the novelist Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of the same name, arrives a decade after the first season but it is “arguably greater than its acclaimed predecessor,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.
So horrific and tragic for those who lost their lives.
Gift article for 3 views sorry it’s not more!
on.ft.com/4hlr73e ‘Extermination camp’ discovery horrifies Mexico
Gift article for 3 views sorry it’s not more!
on.ft.com/4hlr73e ‘Extermination camp’ discovery horrifies Mexico
March 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
So horrific and tragic for those who lost their lives.
Gift article for 3 views sorry it’s not more!
on.ft.com/4hlr73e ‘Extermination camp’ discovery horrifies Mexico
Gift article for 3 views sorry it’s not more!
on.ft.com/4hlr73e ‘Extermination camp’ discovery horrifies Mexico
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In the 90s, photojournalists captured the detainees at Guantánamo who were subjected to inhumane conditions. “It was a lawless place,” an interpreter for Haitian refugees imprisoned there said. “There was no accountability.”
The Fate of Migrants Detained at Guantánamo
In the early nineteen-nineties, Haitian refugees and asylum seekers were held on the base in abysmal conditions. Their experience now seems like a preview of what’s to come.
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March 19, 2025 at 12:46 AM
In the 90s, photojournalists captured the detainees at Guantánamo who were subjected to inhumane conditions. “It was a lawless place,” an interpreter for Haitian refugees imprisoned there said. “There was no accountability.”
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In a new interview, Sarah Snook talks about bringing Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”—a play in which she plays 26 characters—to Broadway.
Sarah Snook’s Wilde Adventure
The Australian actress, best known for her work on “Succession,” brings all twenty-six characters in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” to Broadway.
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March 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
In a new interview, Sarah Snook talks about bringing Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”—a play in which she plays 26 characters—to Broadway.
What super news to wake up to.
March 10, 2025 at 6:37 AM
What super news to wake up to.
How gorgeous is the Royal Albert Hall?
March 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
How gorgeous is the Royal Albert Hall?
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“Being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from," Toni Morrison said, in 2003. "It doesn’t limit my imagination; it expands it." Revisit Hilton Als’s Profile of Morrison, who was born on this day in 1931.
Toni Morrison and the Ghosts in the House
From 2003: As an editor, author, and professor, Morrison has fostered a generation of black writers.
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February 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“Being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from," Toni Morrison said, in 2003. "It doesn’t limit my imagination; it expands it." Revisit Hilton Als’s Profile of Morrison, who was born on this day in 1931.
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The ban on refugee citizenship corrodes our better sense of what Keir Starmer is all about.
Talking about the anti-refugee initiative with the Institute for Government.
Talking about the anti-refugee initiative with the Institute for Government.
PODCAST 🎙️ Starmer’s border crackdown, Trump’s Ukraine sellout
@iandunt.bsky.social joins the podcast team to weigh up Labour's latest policy blitz – this time on immigration.
Plus: Increasing pressure on Rachel Reeves, and Trump’s Ukraine sellout www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/insi...
@iandunt.bsky.social joins the podcast team to weigh up Labour's latest policy blitz – this time on immigration.
Plus: Increasing pressure on Rachel Reeves, and Trump’s Ukraine sellout www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/insi...
February 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The ban on refugee citizenship corrodes our better sense of what Keir Starmer is all about.
Talking about the anti-refugee initiative with the Institute for Government.
Talking about the anti-refugee initiative with the Institute for Government.
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Writing this with a heavy heart: the refugee citizenship ban is the single most unconscionable policy Labour has proposed since it entered power. It’s the moment that I felt my support for this administration begin to crumble inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...
The precise moment my support for Keir Starmer began to crumble
Labour is going to prevent refugees from ever becoming citizens of Britain
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February 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Writing this with a heavy heart: the refugee citizenship ban is the single most unconscionable policy Labour has proposed since it entered power. It’s the moment that I felt my support for this administration begin to crumble inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...
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What you are seeing this morning over the refugee decision is Labour alienating and offending its remaining liberal supporters without bringing any new voters onside.
February 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
What you are seeing this morning over the refugee decision is Labour alienating and offending its remaining liberal supporters without bringing any new voters onside.