Zamira Rahim

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Journalist, CNN London. Previously writing at The Independent, The Economist and TIME Magazine. Contact: [email protected]

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I did not know this was happening! The first movie is so delightfully dark, zany and stylishly shot www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

‘A Simple Favor 2’ Is a Go: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively Returning for Paul Feig Sequelwww.hollywoodreporter.com Hailing from Amazon MGM Studios and Lionsgate, the follow-up to the 2018 film is set to begin production this spring.

My wedding reception coincided with the England v France World Cup match in 2022 - we tried to sneak a projector into the hall but were foiled. In the end, I'd say 90% of guests, bride and groom included, were watching the match on their phones as food was served. My mum gave up trying to stop it

Because what you *really* want when you choose to go the theatre on the night of a big England match, is to watch the football.

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Horrifying the web of complicity and failure to protect, or even consider, Andrea Skinner. Parents and step-parents obviously, but consider this Munro biographer who just decided to ignore her letters.

Simply no words. My heart breaks for Andrea Skinner. Well done to the Toronto Star for publishing this. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Not surprised by this - audience trends at the moment suggest people want to turn away from politics for a bit in the UK www.thebookseller.com/news/politic...

Political book sales remain flat despite general electionwww.thebookseller.com Nielsen BookScan’s data showed books about politics sold £1.5m, a marginal (1.7%) rise over the same period in 2023.

Thoughts and prayers with the media booking desks today, frantically trying to update their contact books on a July weekend

no no no no miriam cates LOST! We don't need to hear her on the radio now, you see. Because she didn't get elected! I know it's a reflex, but she's just another citizen with bad fearmongering opinions! This is how democracy works.

'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.

Meanwhile over at the Telegraph, a leader writer wonders if a community taking part in the democratic process means its time to stop "handing citizenship out" to them. The absolute state of this.

The lobby did a generally decent job last night. But this language/mindset around British Muslim voting trends is profoundly unsettling and offensive.

Analysis: Biden now faces a genuine threat to his reelection bid www.cnn.com/2024/07/03/p...

Analysis: Biden’s post-debate crisis is now evolving into a genuine threat to his reelection bid | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com President Joe Biden needs to do far more to quell Democratic panic over his terrible performance at his debate showdown with former President Donald Trump, and fast.

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Isn't this usually the set up for the big let down? Immunity for Trump coming? Or is it just distraction from the "it's cool to tip us" decision?

The Supreme Court is set to reject a major challenge to emergency abortion care, according to a document that was reportedly released by accident.

Supreme Court Set To Allow Emergency Abortion Care In Idaho: Reportwww.huffpost.com The consequential ruling was leaked Wednesday morning.

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WaPo about to issue an apology and retraction for "all that Watergate stuff"

Newsweek's decline from legacy media bastion to a churn operation reliant on the worst SEO practices has hit a particularly grim point here

600+ episodes. Wild.

So, so pleased to see the Longform hosts finally getting their flowers. It's a shame the praise comes as the show ends, but what a run. And what a roster of guests - basically every major name from US letters today appeared www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/s...

The Hosts of Journalism’s Favorite Podcast Say Goodbyewww.nytimes.com After 12 years, Aaron Lammer, Max Linsky and Evan Ratliff will soon release the final episode of “Longform,” a podcast that unwittingly captured the shifts in the journalism and publishing industries.

Belatedly reading the Andrew O’Hagan New Yorker profile and, as everyone says, it's excellent www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

New from our Middle East team: Israeli military straps injured Palestinian man to the hood of a jeep www.cnn.com/2024/06/23/m...

Israeli military straps injured Palestinian man to hood of jeep | CNNwww.cnn.com The Israeli military strapped an injured Palestinian man to the hood of a military vehicle during an operation on Saturday in the occupied West Bank.

Oddly, the detail I always recall about Sutherland is Joe Wright saying he cast him as the dad in Pride & Prejudice because he reminded Wright of his own father. "And sometimes you just have to go with sentimental reasons".

Ah, this is very sad. What a career. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Actor Donald Sutherland dies aged 88www.bbc.co.uk The star of films including The Hunger Games and Animal House has died after a long illness.

Ah, this is very sad. What a career. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Actor Donald Sutherland dies aged 88www.bbc.co.uk The star of films including The Hunger Games and Animal House has died after a long illness.

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It's much more the lack of sub-editors at all. Copy is going from reporter to newsdesk to site in most cases, and the desk doesn't have time to tell the reporters where they're going wrong. This means that when those reporters move up to the newsdesk, etc, etc...

On an unrelated note, the decline of quality sub-editing in British media leaves me rather glum

They’re so upset about things maybe getting a tiny bit less awful that they can’t spell “free rein” (it’s a horseriding metaphor; nothing to do with monarchy).

At least 39 killed and dozens injured in Israeli airstrike on UN school in Gaza, according to Gaza authorities www.cnn.com/middleeast/l...

Live updates: Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, UN school strike, Lebanon border tensionswww.cnn.com Tensions are ramping up at the Israel-Lebanon border, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning his country is prepared for "intense action" along the frontier. Follow for live updates.

Wildly impressed by + envious of this blockbuster NYT story www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/t...

Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza Warwww.nytimes.com Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effor...

Could there be a shock result in India? Modi is on course for victory but his outright majority is at risk edition.cnn.com/asia/live-ne...

Live updates: India election results 2024, Modi's outright majority at riskedition.cnn.com Early results from election authorities show Prime Minister Narendra Modi may fall short of an outright majority and be reliant on longstanding coalition allies to form a government. Follow for live ...

Lobby reporting really not covering itself in glory today

Unusual story doing the rounds in Asia today - China has accused the UK of recruiting a married couple employed by the Chinese central government to spy for MI6 edition.cnn.com/2024/06/02/c...

China claims married couple working for government spied for UK’s MI6 | CNNedition.cnn.com China on Monday accused Britain of recruiting a married couple employed by the Chinese central government to spy for its MI6 intelligence service, as the two countries trade allegations of espionage.

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There are approximately 15 books about Kafka cluttering up our living room, so please do read @tanjilrashid.bsky.social's essay on the great man in the FT this weekend www.ft.com/content/99ed...

'It is June. I am tired of being brave.' poets.org/poem/truth-d...

"Joseph O’Neill’s transnational new novel is, I’m sure, the first to capture the contemporary reality of football as the predominant cultural pursuit of our globalised age" www.theguardian.com/books/articl...

Godwin by Joseph O’Neill review – mining for goalswww.theguardian.com A comedic hunt for raw footballing talent in Africa explores a new kind of colonialism