Yasmin Alibhai-Brown – Page 5 – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

May 8, 2019

Democrats, your nation needs you

Last week I tweeted: “The nation is ungovernable. A stable old democracy is being demolished by populist politicians. It’s worse than an army coup… What will […]

April 6, 2017

Britain’s Horrible Histories

The Viceroy’s House, a feature film by Gurinder Chadha, director of the joyous Bend it like Beckham, is out on general release in March. It […]

April 6, 2017

White and Black Working Classes

Not a week goes by without some right wing British politician or pundit bewailing the lot of the ‘left behind’ white working classes. Most of […]

April 6, 2017

Emma Watson and Women Today

Having followed the Emma Watson furore, what I would really, really like is to go out on a sisterly date with this amazing young woman […]

April 6, 2017

Lies and Hypocrisy Over Asylum Attack

Witness the rank British duplicity and hypocrisy as various public figures respond to the mob assault on a blameless teenager on a street in Croydon, […]

April 6, 2017

Misrembering Diana

Hear ye all. Kensington Palace has put on an exhibition titled Diana: Her Fashion Story and, ostensibly, tickets are selling out fast. For a mere […]

January 3, 2017

Homeless in ‘Great’ Britain

From my study I can see the common with its tall trees, sweeping seagulls and dog walkers. It looks like a Christmas card, frosty, silvery […]

January 3, 2017

Bloody Britishness

This year Britishness reached its nadir. It turned angry, righteous, hateful, confrontational, inward looking and mean. Brexit was the result and still the rage goes […]

January 3, 2017

Children of the Jungle

Thousands of unaccompanied children and young people will, by the end of this week, lose the perilous, bleak place they have sheltered in for many […]