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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The Government’s shameful scapegoating of immigrants
04 August 2013 06:29 PM
The Home Office messages subliminally warn all people of colour not to get too comfortable
How money and amenity contend in our cities
28 July 2013 06:34 PM
Buildings are political, a statement of the relationship between power and the people
Only change at the top can mend the BBC’s ills
21 July 2013 06:32 PM
Individuals are appointed without any open competition for key roles. They are almost all men, white, of a certain class and educational background
Olympics legacy: What remains of the 'Isles of Wonder' euphoria?
14 July 2013 07:26 PM
That nation celebrated in the opening ceremony by Danny Boyle is dying. Here we are today allowing the state to neuter trade unionists and worker’s basic rights
Why I cannot rejoice in Morsi’s downfall
07 July 2013 07:58 PM
How naive we all were when this Spring started with the first fall of an Arab dictator
One dark secret to another: Can the Met go any lower?
30 June 2013 07:37 PM
Promises deliver little as institutional racism lives on
The shocking callousness at the top of the NHS
23 June 2013 06:57 PM
For the CQC leaders, the patients seemed to have been an irrelevance. The system had to survive
Today’s young women have betrayed feminism
17 June 2013 12:00 AM
I squarely blame the young with their foolish apathy and criminal self-indulgence
This battle over how Britain's military and colonial history is taught is also a battle for Britain's future
10 June 2013 12:00 AM
From the Mau Mau uprising in 1950s Kenya to the human catastrophe of World War 1, the UK wilfully edits out the dark, unholy, inconvenient parts of the national story
Chime For Change: It takes more than bling to change the world
02 June 2013 07:08 PM
For Gucci and others, the priority seems to be self-aggrandisement and brand enhancement
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- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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