Sarfraz Manzoor

The James Brown Split YouTube video by Jaffer McCoy

3 minutes and 49 seconds of James Brown doing the splits. You are welcome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke34...

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception Everyone is ok.

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception Everyone is ok. Stay calm, everyone is safe.

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception.

I wonder if a drone has hit Dubai Marina. Or whether it was just
debris from a successful interception.

If only loads of Dubai based accounts, including Isabel Oakeshott's, could tell me.

One of the best things about being a writer is getting the chance to hear from fans who love and appreciate your work.

My plan to make Reform’s racists rethink? Non-white Brits must go on strike Given that potentially over half of Reform UK members want non-white British citizens who, like me, were born abroad forcibly removed from the UK, writes Sarfraz Manzoor, let’s get cabbies, doctors, p...

What would Reform's racists do if they couldn't go for a curry, have a lift home after a night out, nor order any repeat prescriptions, asks @sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/voices/racis...

Good work Onion.

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

what an original idea for a TV show that no one has ever done before.

wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a live performance with a greater disparity between the energy on stage and in the audience youtu.be/_x-ctTWkT3I?...

There is always a tweet.

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.

By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

A Brief History of Crime.

a year is a long time in politics

The tragic deaths of special educational needs children failed by the state

The tragic deaths of special educational needs children failed by the state

the comments below this are worth reading

Maybe it's just me but Springsteen is looking a bit like Conan O'Brien in this photograph.

My nine-year-old son loves Michael Jackson. How do I get him to stop? His son’s adoration for Michael Jackson leads Sarfraz Manzoor to confront the difficult question: how much criminal behaviour had he ignored because an artist’s work was just too good?

When is the right time to let your children know the truth about their tainted idols, asks @sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/voices/micha...

I have no idea of the background or context to this but I fully support it regardless.

All-time great correction on Xan Brooks' review of Melania?

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

Not only is this too relatable I could even name names of those who have said this to me. (I won't because I am still hoping that my time may STILL come.)

That’s definitely one theory but as I wrote in my piece - which I hazard a guess you didn’t read- there could be other explanations that are less to do with my own work and more to do with how students evaluate what is good writing.

There are worse ways to spend a rainy afternoon in London.

My students compared my writing against ChatGPT – and they all preferred the AI A university experiment forced an uncomfortable reckoning with what writing is, says Sarfraz Manzoor (the real version)

I have a piece in the Independent today www.independent.co.uk/voices/ai-wr...

I wonder what song he will sing.

I fear I might die from laughing if this happened.

Mood in minneapolis right now

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

Springsteen's commentary on MINNEAPOLIS.
Powerful song!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

Woody Guthrie is smiling and crying from the ether.

Thank you for your work