Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

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

Friday, 12 November 2010

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?

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The Government has declared war on the welfare state

Monday, 8 November 2010

Our country is in the hands of dogmatist free-marketers who came into power when Britons felt lost

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Fry's misogynistic view is of women as evil temptresses

Monday, 1 November 2010

Most of my good gay friends truly like femininity. But I have known some phobic ones too

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: A worse record than Saddam's

Monday, 25 October 2010

It could fuel terrorism, recruitment into jihadi cells, suicide bombers and ugly attitudes towards the West. But keeping the stories hidden was always wrong

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Why must some guilt be collective?

Monday, 18 October 2010

When I hear of a vicious crime, the first thing I think is please don't let it be a Muslim, or a black, Arab, or Asian. Black and Asian Britons provoke extra opprobrium

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The party conferences were as boozy and tense as ever

Monday, 11 October 2010

I love attending not for the big, stage-managed speeches, nor to share the endless gossip, but for the intelligent discussions at small, intense events

The forces of hate are still with us

Monday, 4 October 2010

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The powerful are entirely focused on the white working and workless classes.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: What now for the centre left?

Monday, 27 September 2010

The Big Society cannot be a substitute for a social democratic state which ensures basic standards for all and fights against inequality and unfairness

The selfish search for the self

Monday, 20 September 2010

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: These existential crises are borne of high expectations and emotional greed.

The two faces of modern America

Monday, 13 September 2010

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Even before the 9/11 attacks, millions of Americans despised and blamed Muslims unfairly.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The stench from the blogosphere

Monday, 6 September 2010

Think of them as the worst end of the press, disreputable and increasingly intrusive, and all in the name of what, exactly

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: How power turns virtue into vice

Monday, 30 August 2010

Like Blair with Bush, so Clegg seems to be with David Cameron, too flattered now that he is in the big room with the most powerful people. He no longer seems himself

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Naomi Campbell isn't at fault

Monday, 9 August 2010

State villainy carries on in the world because high-minded leaders can let go of the moral principles when the time, cause or the price is right

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Cameron's megaphone diplomacy

Monday, 2 August 2010

We want India to be our new best friend because of its economic might. And we are now expected to refrain from any criticism of that emerging powerhouse

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Will we never learn about child crime?

Monday, 26 July 2010

I fear the Michael Howard line on the value of prison will have gathered more converts last week. The Bulger case is one of the most emotive in recent criminal history

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: A bunch of mediocre wastrels

Monday, 19 July 2010

The practice is wrong, and the principle is wrong. It binds the British people and their institutions into dependency and voluntary subservience

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The sorrow of the silent witness

Monday, 12 July 2010

My only sister's carers seem nice, but she is retreating further into herself

7/7: the aftermath of tragedy

Wednesday, 7 July 2010

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Five years ago, bombers struck at the heart of British society. But what that terrible day revealed was the depth of our tolerance

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Why are we promoting Islamicism?

Monday, 28 June 2010

We are told to be more vocally pro-British. That would be easier if our political masters were not guilty of duplicitous transactions that undercut the Britishness we admire

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Where has all the love gone?

Monday, 21 June 2010

The burning flame of passionate mutuality is burning out as people obsessively chase ratings in the mating game

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The grip of the imperial imagination

Monday, 14 June 2010

Gove wants to own and whitewash the story of British imperialism

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Scientists don't always know best

Monday, 31 May 2010

Sometimes we are duped by charlatans who make us believe they can relieve or cure illnesses

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: We won't forgive and forget Iraq

Monday, 24 May 2010

Ed Balls and the Miliband duo, and Cameron too, seem to believe their past stains will wash off easily and that they can present themselves to the nation all fresh and pristine

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The new golden age

Wednesday, 19 May 2010

While the pound and euro teeter on the brink, gold is more valuable than ever. But what inspires our lust? It's more than mere money – it speaks to something elemental in all of us