When I was last in Zanzibar, it was both just as I remembered it as a child and not at all. Today the old spice island […]

I can’t impugn police officers who racially abuse and assault black and Asian citizens. In the last fortnight ten complaints have been brought against the Met […]

  The Equalities and Human Rights Commission( EHRC), set up in 1998, with fulsome backing from the LibDems, is deliberately being weakened by the Tories in […]

Fat is a Female Issue Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Chanteuse Adele says she is not that bothered about being size 14-16. Why would she be?  Blessed with a […]

I went to India and didn’t go to the Taj Mahal, or Rajasthan’s lavish palaces and temples, or to lush Kerala or holy cities. I didn’t […]

Sunday evening. Exhausted after finishing my column for Monday’s independent. What do you mean you didn’t know? How have you lived without my weekly homilies? Such […]

It’s Mothers day and what do I feel? Guilt of course- part of the job description- but for my generation, the conscience is pinched at both […]

Next year it’ll be forty years since I landed here. London is my place, my home, and I feel a slow-growing attachment to England in particular […]

  Freedom of expression in the west is hokum, I say, and hypocrisy dressed up as high virtue. Worse still, it is now used as a […]