Aasmah Mir

Feb 9, 2025 | theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com | Aasmah Mir

If you enjoy the work I do here on The Shift , please consider becoming a paid annual or monthly subscriber. It really makes a difference. And if you already are, thank you. SCROLLING• The most powerful men in the world want you to shut up. • Whether or not you’re a parent, I’m pretty sure most people will identify with ’s piece on stepping away from the job she loved. • I love Jamie Lee Curtis. That is all. (Gift link)• Journalist Charlotte Raven has died aged 53.

Dec 2, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Aasmah Mir

Aasmah Mir appeared on Celebrity MasterChef in 2017 In 2017, my daughter was 18 months old, hardly sleeping and I was only working two short days a week. Yes, it was on a job I loved – Radio 4 – and I was ridiculously lucky to have become a mother at the age of 43, but I was going crazy. So when my agent suggested Celebrity MasterChef, I jumped at the chance. But on the first day on set, I had a nasty shock. I placed my first dish down in front of Gregg Wallace and John Torode and the...

Jul 20, 2024 | thetimes.com | Aasmah Mir

I had no idea until this week that just 5 per cent of women in their early forties get pregnant from IVF. I learnt this in an interview with the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority on Times Radio. Its latest report makes pretty depressing reading if you want to have kids but haven’t got there yet. If I had known, I doubt I would have tried. But I did try, and after two rounds of IVF I became pregnant in 2014 at the age of 43. I fully acknowledge my insane good luck.

Jun 22, 2024 | thetimes.com | Aasmah Mir

Ahhh, the Euros. Every four years — OK, not absolutely every four years, but we’ll come to that — I am reminded how supporting Scotland requires you to take on multiple personalities. You must be deluded but self-deprecating; you must be optimistic but bitter; you must get very drunk while at the same time sheltering an old German man with a Zimmer frame from the rain with an umbrella, as seen in Cologne last week. You must belt out Flower of Scotland while getting tonked 5-1 by Germany.

May 25, 2024 | thetimes.co.uk | Aasmah Mir

I have written before about the full blood transfusion I had to have when I was born in Glasgow in 1971. My mum had to remind me when I was writing my memoir. Even after writing about it here, I failed to make the connection between the infected blood inquiry, which began in 2018, and my own blood transfusion. More than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis C after being given contaminated blood products.