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Parviz Dabir-Alai @dabir-alai.com · 10/10/2026

I thought I knew how Westminster worked until the book by @iandunt.bsky.social was suggested to me.

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Parviz Dabir-Alai @dabir-alai.com · 08/07/2026

Desiring Greenland was left off of this list.

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Parviz Dabir-Alai @dabir-alai.com · 05/05/2026

A lucky young man sitting next to me on the way home proudly showing these off.

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Parviz Dabir-Alai @dabir-alai.com · 17/03/2026

With his resignation statement Joe Kent has thrown Hegseth, Witkoff, Kushner, Rubio and Netanyahu, not to mention Trump himself, under the bus.

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Parviz Dabir-Alai @dabir-alai.com · 04/03/2026

Just goes to show that, if we wanted to, even some of the worse tragedies can be expressed in a lighthearted manner.

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Parviz Dabir-Alai @dabir-alai.com · 03/03/2026

This is the Rose Garden Palace in Iran, built in 16th Century, renovated in 18th Century, and finally rebuilt in 1865. If I remember correctly, my parents had taken me for visits when I was a child. If the other place is to be believed, it was bombed yesterday by USIS.

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Parviz Dabir-Alai @dabir-alai.com · 22/02/2026

Colour pencil shop in Tehran, Iran. (courtesy of reddit.com)

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Parviz Dabir-Alai @dabir-alai.com · 12/11/2025

7 years ago today in the company of colleagues from St. Teresa's in Kochi, State of Kerala, Southern India.

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Parviz Dabir-Alai @dabir-alai.com · 12/10/2025

Cleaning out my home office today threw up these! One of the best examples of how I used to illustrate price mechanisms governing the sale of branded versus generic products in elementary micro lectures. The best before dates on both cans: February 2006!!

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Parviz Dabir-Alai @dabir-alai.com · 13/06/2025

Apparently, Iran has been in the final stages of making a nuclear bomb since 1984.

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Parviz Dabir-Alai @dabir-alai.com · 22/05/2025

www.inderscience.com/info/inartic...

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Parviz Dabir-Alai @dabir-alai.com · 13/01/2025

A first rate political biography of a failed PM, a semi biographical novel, crucial reflections on the role of hope in wellbeing support, and a wonderfully constructed game-theoretic discussion of how to be happy. All 4 authors are great story tellers. All 4 books enjoyed thoroughly in 2024.

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Parviz Dabir-Alai @dabir-alai.com · 08/12/2024

Return home from the GTech did not go to plan last night. A cherished hat lost to the tracks.

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Parviz Dabir-Alai @dabir-alai.com · 17/10/2024

Hunter's supermoon seen from Suffolk, in the English countryside, tonight.

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Parviz Dabir-Alai @dabir-alai.com · 17/09/2024

Hard to be precise but I think I can spot 5 different shades of green here. Lammas Park, London - earlier today.

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Parviz Dabir-Alai @dabir-alai.com · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,105,534! OK, it took me a while to get here, but delighted with my decision 🙂

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Parviz Dabir-Alai @dabir-alai.com · 14/09/2024

It's been a while since I have been so absorbed by one book. Finished 'Truss at 10' last night. Most of us knew Truss was totally ill suited to the PM role, and I had little solid evidence for my own view. But Seldon offers concrete and irrefutable evidence and lays it out masterfully. A must read.

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Parviz Dabir-Alai @dabir-alai.com · 13/09/2024

South West Portugal, June 2024.

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Parviz Dabir-Alai @dabir-alai.com · 31/08/2024

If Seldon's book on Truss is anything like its billing I expect to be absent from here for a few days.

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