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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It's not only the old who are getting bullied off the screen

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Very rarely, a fresh face is allowed in; but the culture never shifts, and its arrogant upholders keep their doors and minds closed.

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: He has validated the haters who think it is OK to threaten me

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Nothing I said on the Nicky Campbell show was so outrageous that it should provoke such a response from a man who should know better. If I, as a citizen of this country, cannot even express an opinion about human rights and the moral authority of our politicians, what does that say about how equal we are?

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