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: Still no hope of common sense in the war against anti-Semitism
These defenders to the end of all Israeli actions knowingly mix politics and race
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: How the British empire is striking back
Monday, 1 February 2010
Like Blair, this inquiry is imperialist. Dusky natives have no voice or representation
The cloak of darkness is no exercise of civil liberties
Monday, 25 January 2010
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Used as a political protest, veils have potency – but the price is too high.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Those who write memoirs know – the truth must be told
Monday, 18 January 2010
Lady Antonia has had her critics. But we tell our stories because we can
Licentiousness breeds extremism
Monday, 11 January 2010
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Collapse of all restraint in society is pushing some Muslims to the edge of reason
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: They are right to ban the burka, even if it is for the wrong reasons
Friday, 8 January 2010
France has never delivered égalité or fraternité to its immigrants. And it often uses liberté to in fact deny those other pillars of its society. There is also a lingering imperial arrogance in that nation that refuses to accept diversity. However it is also true that Muslims in France, in Britain and in other parts of Europe use the argument of equality and liberty to subvert those very qualities and deny them to their own.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Well done, PD James. But will the BBC get the message?
Monday, 4 January 2010
The most prestigious political programmes and documentaries are not open to people like us
London Olympics are failing their racial promises
Monday, 21 December 2009
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Time to make sure the games are what Mandela believed they could be
Christians shouldn't be blaming others
Monday, 14 December 2009
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: It's not PC enforcers who are guilty of neglecting to keep up the spirit of Christmas
Our class-ridden country
Monday, 7 December 2009
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: There is something about the chutzpah and aplomb of the Tory boys
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: I'm beginning to feel some sympathy for Tony Blair
Monday, 30 November 2009
We should have had ordinary Iraqi and British citizens on the inquiry panel
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