Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The ways we betray the spirit of the nativity story

Published: 17 December 2007

The fat man with his sack is surely the Antichrist if one considers the life of the great Saviour

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Muslims have much to thank Britain for

Published: 10 December 2007

We have never acknowledged the fact that 'infidels' campaign ceaselessly to guard our rights

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The shadowy role of Labour Friends of Israel

Published: 03 December 2007

Such lobbyists and their back-room influence should make us very uneasy

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: How did the BBC fall into the hands of right-wingers?

Published: 26 November 2007

I don't pay my licence fee in order to be offered programmes that validate race hate

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Why flee immigrants and become one yourself?

Published: 19 November 2007

The revolving door of people entering and leaving the UK causes giddiness, and then nausea

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Our liberty depends on defending Muslims

Published: 12 November 2007

Shami Chakrabarti, firecracker director of Liberty, hosted a "Bonfire of the Liberties" at the Hackney Empire on 5 November, an evening of political comedy with Rory Bremner, Marcus Brigstocke, the hugely talented Iranian new mum, Shappi Khorsandi, and several other sharp young things whose gags made you cackle and hoot, yet with foreboding. We laugh to survive these bleakest of times.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: New-look xenophobia is just as easy to spot

Published: 05 November 2007

Smoke clouds engulf the islands yet again over immigration.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: I do love this country. But I am not a guest

Published: 29 October 2007

Yates of the Yard - what a man! He had to be grilled slowly on a spit by the Select Committee

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: If blacks are fearful for their jobs, they are right to be

Published: 22 October 2007

Last week I was contacted by apprehensive black and Asian staff working across the BBC – from journalists to support staff, including one of those many silent tea ladies. Most were fearful that in the imminent mass sacking, they would be the first ones to be cast out.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: We are failing our children, and we are all culpable

Published: 15 October 2007

The cultural environment is contaminating the lives of young people

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: It's time for civilised and honest engagement

Published: 08 October 2007

Muslim medics are boycotting lectures on alcohol-related and sexually transmitted diseases, because, say the educated idiots, their religion forbids booze and free sex. A few are refusing to treat the opposite sex, so God help me if I am dying and one of them is on call in A&E.; "Can't touch you, sister, no female doctor here tonight. Go to Paradise, better there anyhow."

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Brown's idea of Britishness gives off a nasty smell

Published: 01 October 2007

There is more honesty in tourist adverts for the UK than in the PM's portrayal of Blighty

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Why are we Muslims so self-destructive?

Published: 24 September 2007

Today, dissenting Muslims have to wear virtual body armour in case someone decides to take offence

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: A lecture on post-enlightenment values won't help me

Published: 17 September 2007

What does it mean to be liberal? If I say there is no absolute freedom of expression, do I become a censor?

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Brown's 'big tent' looks like one-party rule

Published: 10 September 2007

The son of the preacher man is a compelling and compulsive proselytiser. His arms open wide and his words reverberate with authentic moral purpose. Unlike the previous pietistic incumbent, there is no stutter of fraudulence in Gordon Brown's voice. Unlike David Cameron, he sounds as if he has lived a life of toil and trouble. So as Brown beckons, bids, charms and induces, they come in, one by one.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: What do these atheists understand of religion?

Published: 03 September 2007

On Sunday, I was on the last ever Heaven and Earth show on the BBC which, for nine years has been a gentle dale in the noisy world of modern television – pleasurable, tranquil, receptive, candid and at times profoundly revealing of the place of religion in today's world.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: You can't absolve William and Harry

Published: 30 August 2007

The calamitous carry-on over Diana's memorial service carries on. The guest list alters daily as blacklisted invitees (close allies of Diana who knew too much) speak out. Camilla was, we were told, going to attend. The obstinate, mulish future king willed it, his sons acquiesced, and his lowly subjects had no choice. Who did they think they were anyway to raise objections to a majestic edict? But they did, and loudly until Camilla belatedly announced her withdrawal, saying it would not be appropriate for her to distract attention away from her beautiful and damned dead rival.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: A stranger back in my homeland

Published: 11 August 2007

Tanzanians will know from my accent and clothes I am no longer one of them

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Whites keep Britain racially tolerant

Published: 06 August 2007

According to an ICM survey of 18- to 34-year-olds for the BBC Asian Network, most white Britons - a whopping 87 per cent - would happily marry out and between 78 and 83 per cent would date people from outside their own race. Depressingly, the same survey shows that only 53 per cent of Asians say they would marry outside their communities and between 44 and 53 per cent would date non-Asians. Despite the popularity of the BNP, the rise in inter-ethnic tensions and pervasive racism, and our own dreadful Asian prejudices, indigenous Brits are becoming more delightfully open when it comes to love and sex.