October 15, 2014

Beadings that Should make Us Muslims Weep

  It is Eid, the second annual Muslim festival. This is when we mark the end of Hajj and remember Abraham, who agreed to kill Isaac, […]
June 30, 2014

British Jihadis- What Do We Know About Them? Not Much

So why do young Muslims become Jihadis? It’s a question I have been asked over and over again, and more urgently than ever this week. The […]
June 30, 2014

Educating White Working Class Kids: The Immigrant Example

White boys and girls from poor or working class families are attaining lower grades in school than are those from immigrant households. Those of Chinese and […]
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 […]