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 Alihbai-Brown: Why does self-hatred afflict so many non-white people?
The urge to lighten one's skin colour is a disturbing sign of 'ethnic' psychosis
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Monday, 26 October 2009
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Monday, 19 October 2009
More freedom is what we must seek, but lack of restraint leads to dehumanisation
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: My journey into the heart of the white middle class
Monday, 12 October 2009
The party conference messages were slick and gratifying – but less so the reality
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: It's time to stand up and fight the new misogyny
Monday, 5 October 2009
Ours is the age of libertine sexism and verbal debauchery
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Don't Israel's nuclear weapons count?
Monday, 28 September 2009
Netanyahu has what he wants to keep up the idea of his plucky, vulnerable little state
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The Right is impotent, the Left is loaded with guilt and shame
Monday, 21 September 2009
Ugly populism is fast food for the disillusioned
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: We abandon history at our peril
Monday, 14 September 2009
Some school children surveyed thought Churchill the first man to walk on the moon
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Britain's barbaric terror strategy
Monday, 31 August 2009
Here we have the three Ds – destitution, detention and, finally, deportation
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: I'm sorry, but I was wrong to support the war in Afghanistan
Monday, 24 August 2009
The myth of Afghanistan as “graveyard of empires” bewitches even British Muslims
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