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
Recently by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
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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Where unions have defied the trend and grown has been where they're seen to be defending the workforce
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