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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Known for her sharp commentary on issues of multiculturalism, race and religion, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown won the George Orwell Prize for political journalism in 2002 and the Emma Award for Journalism in 2004. She is also a radio and television broadcaster and author of several books including the acclaimed No Place Like Home and Who Do We Think We Are? Imagining the New Britain.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Don't portray Muslims as victims. We've moved on

Subtle shifts are taking place, and supposed enemies are now friends

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: In a sea of corruption we only catch the small fry

Monday, 7 July 2008

I met Derek Conway recently and there was no tremor of culpability

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Religions should not be allowed to make ghettos

Monday, 30 June 2008

Some ardent Christians, Jews, Hindus and Muslims wish to demolish our secularism

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: When loyalty gets the better of morality

Monday, 23 June 2008

Zimbabwe bleeds, burns and moans as vicious cruelty and political intimidation destroy the democratic process. Thabo Mbeki, the one leader in Southern Africa who could deal with Mugabe, will not do so because this Zebra man, as he's been described, thinks in black and white stripes, trajectories that never can meet or merge. He once tellingly wrote: "Those who, in the interests of their white 'kith and kin', did what they could to deny the people of Zimbabwe their liberty for as long as they could, have become eminent defenders of the democratic rights of the people of Zimbabwe."

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Political labels no longer mean very much

Monday, 16 June 2008

Today the most fanatical holders of prejudices against new migrants are old migrants

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Calling Obama black is an insult to his mother

Monday, 9 June 2008

An honest history would acknowledge the white men and women rubbed out by the label

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: A lament for the death of the left as a political force

Monday, 2 June 2008

Most depressing is the sight of black and Asian Britons following the wind blowing Tories to victory

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: From the right to free expression to a duty to offend

Monday, 26 May 2008

One is required to deride Mary Whitehouse. But if no watch is kept, society ends up depraved

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: This week, I've been ashamed to be a woman

Monday, 19 May 2008

Cherie still defends the war in Iraq. Hillary would go nuke Iran

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Eat only local produce? I don't like the smell of that

Monday, 12 May 2008

The language in this debate is a proxy for anti-immigration sentiments

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: In Kampala, 1968 was a bit more complex...

Monday, 5 May 2008

Obote was rattled: what if the young, educated elites in his country acted up too

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