August 8, 2013

Ladywood Blues: Where are the dads?

  Ladywood in Birmingham is one of several districts where, according to a new report, seventy per cent of children are raised in households without fathers. […]
August 8, 2013

Home Office Institutionally Racist

  The Home Office is on a mission to intimidate and debase Kipling’s ‘fluttered folk and wild’ abroad and in the UK.  It is proud to […]
July 10, 2013

Stuart Hall: The Sentence

  I wanted to go to Preston Crown Court to witness Stuart Hall finally paying for his crimes against children. Something came up and I couldn’t. […]
July 10, 2013

Race and the Met

Race and the Met Yasmin Alibhai-Brown I hope Met bosses don’t go all defensive about this column or distrust my motives. Some of them have tried […]
July 10, 2013

Young Women have Failed Feminism

  Kate appeared at the Queen’s birthday parade, big with baby, smiling, blooming. She, who wore an ice- cream pink outfit, PINK!, is a perfect icon […]
July 10, 2013

Remembered and Forgotten Histories

  The government has just agreed to pay twenty million pounds to over five thousand Kenyans tortured under British rule during the Mau Mau uprising in […]
May 27, 2013

Beetroot Rosti

Made this for posh guests recently. Its beautiful- a lovely, life affirming red (or a bit like a circle of baked blood said one diner, who […]
May 27, 2013

Muslim Killers in Woolwich

  On Saturday the postman delivered readers’ letters many of them about the Pakistani groomers and the Muslim slaughterers of soldier Lee Rigby. Some had swastikas, […]
May 13, 2013

Ukip: A Malevolent Force

  Cheeky charmer Jamie Oliver adds his bit to spice up the appeal of Ukip. It pleases him that the party is ‘stirring it up’ though […]