Dr Swapher

A fast-paced, crazy, funny, rom-com feature film set in India. Written by Basil Hajjar and to be directed by Arun Kumar.

[Oliver @OWS1892]

If Labour wins the next election will we still have to put up with this fat cunt embarrassing us on the world stage?

[Jess Phillips @jessphillips]

My brother was a rough sleeper, unlike Suella Braverman he has dedicated his life in gratitude to the fact he still has it to the service and help of others. He'd be a better home secretary than her but then again a cardboard box would be a better home secretary than her.

[Dr Swapher @DSwapher]

@LizWebsterSBF Idiots

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Great great news from @EmpirePodUK- in September alone we crossed 2,000,000 downloads! (For context, in July we got 1,200,000.) Thank you all for listening, to @CallumHill98 for fabulous production & @tweeter_anita for her patience (and occasionally getting her equipment working! 😉)

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

A conversation with @IndianExpress about ancient Maritime routes linking India and Europe via Egypt and the Red Sea- a route that India has now revived as a major G20 initiave this weekend. Its the subject of the first section of my forthcoming Golden Road to be published by @BloomsburyBooks & @BloomsburyIndia in 2024

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Astonishing news @EmpirePodUK: last week's pair of episodes on the Birth of the Great Game have already been downloaded close on HALF A MILLION times (493,000 by yesterday evening)- a massive, massive increase on anything we've ever had before. So many thanks to all of you, and especially fabulous @tweeter_anita & @CallumHill98.

Tomorrow we drop one of my favourite episodes- the East India Company's ill-fated invasion of Afghanistan of 1839, followed by the 1842 Retreat from Kabul, the subject of my Return of a King.

https://t.co/RJXjGVUiux
@BloomsburyIndia @BloomsburyBooks

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

A day in the absolute joke of a Tory govt we are having to put up with

Gillian Keegan took on persona of a sweary, self righteous XXXX amid disgraceful RAAC crisis in schools
Gavin Williamson forced to apologise to Parliament for bullying cos he didn't get an invitation to the Queen's funeral. He now has to undergo "behavioural training"...
Sunak tried, and failed dismally, to counter the proof he cut back on schools rebuilding budget...
Chris Pincher lost appeal against suspension from House of Commons for groping two men last year.

There will be more but the news programmes can only cope with so much.....

General Election very soon please

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

New @EmpirePodUK drop!!!

The Empress & The General

With her reign in peril in three separate arenas, Catherine begins to turn her attention to a young soldier, Grigory Potemkin. What follows is one of the great partnerships, and love affairs, of history.

https://t.co/RJXjGVUiux

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Job Opportunity for art historians of india!

The wonderful Wallace Collection @WallaceMuseum , where I held my Forgotten Masters show, is looking for an enthusiastic and practically-minded scholar to assist as their Guest Curator and Exhibitions Manager in the development of major loan exhibition Ranjit Singh: Sikh, Warrior, King opening in Spring 2024

https://t.co/0Mbpc9G9Io

[Mirror Politics @MirrorPolitics]

“Britain feels pretty broken at the moment. Don't break it even more.”

@AndyBurnhamGM and Mick Lynch, leader of @RMTunion, discuss the importance of the #SaveTicketOffices campaign.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Jeremy Hunt forgot he owned seven flats, Jacob Rees-Mogg forgot he took a £6m loan, Theresa Villiers forgot she owned £70k-worth of Shell shares and Rishi Sunak forgot his wife owned shares in a childcare company. Bad run of memory lapses right there, guys.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

This how HMRC deals with rich tax evaders, if it bothers to at all.

Nadhim Zahawi has agreed to pay the £3,700,000 tax bill he lied about and hid from HMRC.

He should be sent to jail for fraud.

RT if you want to see him in jail.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Sunak "inadvertently" doesn't talk about ...
Wife's Non-dom status avoiding £20m tax
Green Card status while Chancellor declaring himself "permanent USA resident"
Offshore tax haven beneficiary in BVI and Caymans
Infosys & Russia deals
"Blind trust" so we are blind to his investments
Strong Tata links to his family....given £500m pre by-elections to possibly persuade local voters
Infosys and BP deal weeks before new oil and gas licences granted

What have I missed?
Read @bylinetimes for news you won't find in the Tory papers
https://t.co/ocdGIKBZXl

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The tragedy of Hyderabad : some of the most magnificent built heritage in India, if not the world, and a Philistine government that doesn't understand how such heritage can both beautify the city and bring in crores upon crores of tourist dollars. Someone should send the Chief Minister and his cabinet to Italy to see how well maintained heritage can enrich a country.

[Sanghamitra Malik @Ilovehyderabad]

@Uberseehandel @asifalikhan_1 @YunusLasania @urban_lens @nuts2406 @swachhhyd @DalrympleWill @Vasaamaha @DeccanArchive @hemantsarin @khwajamoinddin We, the members of the public are trying our very best to impress upon the Administration the need to save this city's heritage buildings & monuments of which there are many. They are on a roll demolishing priceless heritage bldgs as though they mean nothing. A very sad situation

[Dr Swapher @DSwapher]

#ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern #Torycrooks

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Remember Tory MP @Siobhan_Baillie who falsely accused me of being an "education snob" in parliament?
Oh the irony..she's had to apologise for wrongly taking credit for creating the Natural History GCSE.
RT

@CarolineLucas @TheGreenParty MP who led the campaign for the new GCSE in Parliament, said there was a “very strong” case for Ms Baillie to correct the record in the House.

She said the Tory MP’s apology was “mealy-mouthed” and called on her to remove the video containing the “gobsmacking” claim that she created the course from her website.

“Constituents ought to be able to expect honesty from their MPs and you can’t go around making stuff up, essentially, which is what this looks like,” she told The Telegraph.

On Ms Baillie’s claims in Parliament, she said: “I think it’s insidious. Once people think they can get away with making claims in the Commons that are wrong - either to do it knowingly or mistakenly - I think there is a very strong argument that the record should be corrected.”

Huge applause for the woman who fought for the new GCSE all the way Mary Colwell @curlewcalls 👏🏼👏🏼
@Telegraph

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Remember Tory MP @Siobhan_Baillie who falsely accused me of being an "education snob" in parliament?
Oh the irony..she's had to apologise for wrongly taking credit for creating the Natural History GCSE.
RT

@CarolineLucas @TheGreenParty MP who led the campaign for the new GCSE in Parliament, said there was a “very strong” case for Ms Baillie to correct the record in the House.

She said the Tory MP’s apology was “mealy-mouthed” and called on her to remove the video containing the “gobsmacking” claim that she created the course from her website.

“Constituents ought to be able to expect honesty from their MPs and you can’t go around making stuff up, essentially, which is what this looks like,” she told The Telegraph.

On Ms Baillie’s claims in Parliament, she said: “I think it’s insidious. Once people think they can get away with making claims in the Commons that are wrong - either to do it knowingly or mistakenly - I think there is a very strong argument that the record should be corrected.”

Huge applause for the woman who fought for the new GCSE all the way Mary Colwell @curlewcalls 👏🏼👏🏼
@Telegraph

[Dr Swapher @DSwapher]

Let’s stop kidding ourselves we’re a rich nation and get real… the UK’s gone bust | Will Hutton https://t.co/zfZgygyVh1

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

In 44 yrs since I first voted, 31 yrs has been a Tory govt where all that we, the population, owned (nationalised) has been sold...electricity production & distribution, phone networks, rail networks, gas distribution, water...what have I missed? Let's do a list together

Headline below is from Telegraph!

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

Guess who?
"I'm passionately committed to giving people who are being tortured and persecuted asylum, and that means not just letting them in, but taking them to our hearts, and feeding and clothing and schooling them."