January 3, 2017

Social Care

  My mood darkens every December. Another birthday rolls along too, too fast, bones ache a bit more, the skin feels as thin and fragile as […]
January 3, 2017

White, Middle Class and Mine

  The hoo-hah continues. Talented Mr Jon Holmes,  a comedian loved by many, who appeared on the Now Show on BBC Radio 4 for eighteen years, […]
January 3, 2017

IVF and Feminism

  Sometimes, a few well articulated words can make you question your own settled, sometimes congealed views.  It happened to me on Thursday morning, while I […]
August 30, 2016

Muslim Women and Discrimination

  Muslim women are the most economically disadvantaged group in our society. They are three times more likely than other British women to be unemployed or […]
August 30, 2016

Saudi Arabia

  Practising Muslims have only five fundamental religious obligations: we must commit to monotheism, pray, give to charity, fast during the month of Ramadhan and go […]
August 30, 2016

The New Sex War

  A new sex war rages around the world. Men feel they are losing control within homes, communities and nations. They are the unloved, unwanted, sad […]
June 26, 2016

A Plague On Those Who Brought Us Here

Brexit Win Yasmin Alibhai-Brown   On Wednesday morning a talented young, black musician was beaten up in a park in South London and told to ‘get […]
June 26, 2016

Brexit, White, Black, Shades of Brown

  The EU referendum has ruptured political parties, families and communities, lacerated national cohesion. Black and Asian Britons have gone through the same upheavals and anguish, […]
June 12, 2016

Remain – why are we stuck with such duds?

We may, probably will, leave the EU thanks to jingoists,  xenophobes, clueless millions who think their country was great when it way grey and mingy and the […]