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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: We've become experts at sex – but losers at love

There's no doubt sex is better for most Western men and women. With love, however, the news is bad

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Oxford should refuse the Iron Lady this honour

Her ideas should be freely taught, but a centre bearing her name would be a sign of undisputed greatness

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown : The talent that lies beyond the 'brightest and best'

The 'foreign' carers who look after my mother-in-law would not win an audition for The Nutcracker

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Those who would murder Rushdie will never learn

Muslims must begin to see that minds need to be liberated if political freedom is to transform their lives

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: We will repeat the past if we don't remember it

My ancestors were set up by the British to be the racially exclusive middle class, a role we then relished

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Honours that show the old order reasserting itself

The nation has turned away from progressive politics. The right owns government, culture and media

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Christianity deserves better worshippers

Too many are like Cameron, part-time Christians of convenience who use religion as a weapon

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The terrible cost of low self-esteem

Magazines and images in the public space make almost all of us despise our bodies

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Men still rule from the bedroom to the boardroom

There is no shortage of sisters defending the hideous status quo

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Don't be fooled. We're not all in this together

Health inequalities today between the richest and poorest are worse than they were in the 1920s

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: A very modern form of menace

We who are stalked and threatened are told it is because we put ourselves out there

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: We should be proud of how far we have come

When David Bond got Blatter to accept he was wrong about racism, he reflected our nation's moral leadership

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Beware the seduction of the charismatic leader

We have Boris, our own loveable rogue. That cheeky chappie look, the unkempt hair, the low cunning

'If their mums and dads can't be together, children want as normal a life as possible in one home, not to be divvied up day by day'

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: In divorce, children's rights trump those of parents

If their mums and dads can't be together, children want as normal a life as possible in one home, not to be divvied up day by day

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: As protest gathers force, so does state oppression

Christianity has shown that it readily compromises its own ideals when it comes to money and power

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