May 12, 2014

All Political Parties are Killing the NHS

  Read all about it! Chronic understaffing is putting lives at risk in the NHS. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence ( NICE) believes […]
May 12, 2014

Open Letter to Nigel Farage

Dear Nigel Farage, This open letter will infuriate you.  I know from personal experience how your temper flares and torches detractors. Do you remember the last […]
May 12, 2014

Thrive by Ariana Huffinton. Book Review

    WH Allen, 2014. Pp 342. £16.99 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown There were no psych-fix or self-improvement books on my shelves. Now there is one: Thrive: The […]
May 12, 2014

Song for Secularism

  Ukip hogs the limelight but the hot issue of the moment is religion in modern Britain. Cameron declared this nation ‘Christian’ and wants believers to […]
February 26, 2014

Planned Poverty in the UK

Poverty made in Britain On Friday evening On Iain Dale’s LBC programme, I was on with the urbane Nadhim Zahawi, Tory MP for Stratford-Upon-Avon, who claimed […]
February 26, 2014

Planet Green

Planet Green Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Biblical floods, submerged habitations, devastated, distraught people who have lost everything. This is turning point for me and, I assume, millions of […]
February 26, 2014

War Mania

War Mania Yasmin Alibhai-Brown My dad Kassam, who looked like Jeremy Thorpe, didn’t eat much, but greedily consumed books on British politics and British wars.  He […]
January 10, 2014

You Love My Food But Hate me Being Here?

I cooked for some people just before Christmas- some mates, some acquaintances, some allies, some foes. One thing they ALL AGREED on was how great the […]
January 10, 2014

Hating the Immigrant: A National Sport

Immigration Hatred Yasmin Alibhai-Brown  I want the BBC’s political editor Nick Robinson to look me in the eye and tell me that it was a big […]