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.
Why is my gender suddenly in retreat?
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The truth is that all nations would prefer it if women went back indoors again
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: How libel laws silence our democracy
Monday, 16 November 2009
Most journalists have to accept severe limits on what we can say about crucial issues
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Monday, 9 November 2009
A well-known atheist emails me to ask how a good, kind and intelligent woman like myself can be part of such a "disgusting" religion.
Yasmin Alihbai-Brown: Why does self-hatred afflict so many non-white people?
Monday, 2 November 2009
The urge to lighten one's skin colour is a disturbing sign of 'ethnic' psychosis
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: America's racial divide is healing faster than our own
Monday, 26 October 2009
Black Americans can rise to the sky – but the poorest languish forever
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Freedom of speech is fine until the invective is against you
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
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