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 Alibhai-Brown: Muslims must confront the truth about Mumbai

There must be Muslims in India who are supporting the unsupportable

Recently by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Where is the media outrage over Gaza?

Monday, 24 November 2008

Four cheers for the feisty Lauren Booth, sister-in-law of our special Middle East envoy, Tony Blair. But what exactly is he doing? Desperately searching for his legacy I suppose, like the weapons of mass destruction hidden in the sands somewhere, waiting to be unearthed.

State panders to parents, but not all families are safe

Monday, 17 November 2008

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The only people in the country who can still be lawfully hit are children

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: You can't force patriotism on a people

Monday, 10 November 2008

After spending millions, Brown is giving up trying to fix a national identity

Why do Home Secretaries turn into such monsters?

Monday, 3 November 2008

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: It ain't over. ID cards are coming

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Could Britain elect a black premier? Not any time soon

Monday, 27 October 2008

The number of non-white local councillors has actually fallen

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: It must be right to let people decide if they want to die

Monday, 20 October 2008

Those who assist in circumstances like Daniel James's cannot be criminals

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: We may share a language, but that's it ...

Monday, 13 October 2008

The UK is mesmerised by the American presidential election. The result will affect all our futures. But is it too much already? Vast resources go into the coverage, leading to a fabricated, even forced, identification with the hyper-power; a euphoric mood is daily whipped up by fervently Atlanticist pundits. Question the United States and you are slammed for "anti-Americanism". There are no equivalent sneers for those who, for example, criticise Russia or India. It is as if this country is an extension of the US. It is defiantly, patently not. In fact, the more this drama unfolds, the more intensely aware we become of how different we are. The ocean between us is physical and cultural.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: We are going to pay dearly for the loss of Sir Ian Blair

Monday, 6 October 2008

The erstwhile head of the Met championed race and religious equality measures

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: We Muslims who despair of terrorism

Monday, 22 September 2008

Armageddon is on its way.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Middle-class self pity, it's the angst of our age

Monday, 15 September 2008

Watch out. Middle-class self-pity is at an all-time high as recession is anticipated by the "hardworking" folk who own nice homes and dependable, large cars and holiday many times a year. All too soon, such well-earned luxuries have turned to essential entitlements. Those now accustomed to these extras are restive, expecting the worst, almost as panicky as those across the Atlantic awaiting hurricanes. And of course when this downturn hits, some will have to decide to sell up that abode in Andalusia and go sometimes to Asda, instead of M&S or Waitrose.

More yasmin alibhai-brown: