Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Known for her sharp commentary on issues of politics, 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 The Settler's Cookbook: A Memoir of Migration, Love and Food and Who Do We Think We Are? Imagining the New Britain.
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Guns first, then with indecent haste, the deals
It didn't take long for barbarism to crawl out in Libya and here in Europe. As the regime fell, victory turned to vendetta and voyeurism.
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Without boundaries, we run the risk of chaos
Monday, 17 October 2011
Fundamental liberties are to be cherished but too often they are defended spuriously
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: We must defend these laws which protect us all
Monday, 10 October 2011
The new Tories are charming and dangerously likeable. But they are the enemies of a more equal, just, fair and fulfillling society for everyone
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Heaven knows why we're all so miserable now
Monday, 3 October 2011
Maybe we should offer hope transfusions to those indigenous citizens we see lumbering around us, who are drunk on misery, bitter, restless and dissatisfied
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Cameron is mistaken about what really makes us great
Monday, 26 September 2011
It is hard to believe that Cameron was once in public relations. His campaign is feeble, unpersuasive, culturally illiterate, inconsistent and fraudulent
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Mothers who need to keep their problems in perspective
Monday, 19 September 2011
What irks is that the domestic irritations of the privileged have been taken up at a time of global recession, wars, famines, and violence against women
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Is the shadow over Muslims lifting?
Thursday, 8 September 2011
Many British Muslims have come out of denial and now recognise that extremism flourishes in ordinary families
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Women without any rights know all about 'erotic capital'
Monday, 22 August 2011
Hakim attacks feminists for devaluing the sexual currency held by British women. I can only thank them for freeing us from lives endured by millions
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Race played a part, but not as Starkey imagines it
Monday, 15 August 2011
Historian now claims he was talking about the culture of black gangs not race. He blamed black people for causing white anti-social behaviour
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Columnist Comments
• Peter Popham: A cathedral turns its back on the people
This week the people who run St Paul's Cathedral gave us a lesson in what it's not for.
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Guns first, then with indecent haste, the deals
As the regime fell, victory turned to vendetta and voyeurism.
• Mary Ann Sieghart: Cameron picks a fight when he doesn't need to
Let's play a game of fantasy headlines – or rather nightmare headlines.
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1 Editor-At-Large: Seems we'll use any word today except a word of kindness
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3 Robert Fisk: You can't blame Gaddafi for thinking he was one of the good guys
4 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Guns first, then with indecent haste, the deals
5 Peter Popham: A cathedral turns its back on the people
6 Paul Vallely: God knows why Dawkins won't show
8 Letters: The fuss over Gaddafi's killing is rank hypocrisy
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2 Peter Popham: A cathedral turns its back on the people
3 Christina Patterson: Tinker, tailor, ageing Lib Dem councillor with hobbit face, spy...
4 Joan Bakewell: Next we'll be told to hurry up and die
5 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Guns first, then with indecent haste, the deals
6 Leading article: From Russia with cash
7 Owen Jones: Protest without politics will change nothing
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