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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: This is how I stay young

17.12.2024 3

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I keep being asked when I'll show gratitude to this country. Here's my answer

13.12.2024 2

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It has never been so hard to be a liberal Muslim in the UK

11.12.2024 5

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The BBC is complicit in the Gregg Wallace scandal

Oi, Greg Wallace, I am one of those “middle-class women of a certain age” to which you refer. We see right through your dimpled smile, that old...

05.12.2024 10

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Nadine Dorries and I have always disagreed – but now she has my respect

Who would have thought it possible? My heart has gone out to Nadine Dorries. I’m not being sarky or sly. It is the honest truth. The hostilities and...

29.11.2024 8

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Jeremy Clarkson’s greed makes the perfect case for taxes

Gawd, the sound and fury at the farmers’ march against inheritance tax, which according to BBC fact checkers, will affect only around 500 farms with...

27.11.2024 10

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Treatment of carers is next Post Office scandal

Last Friday, in our London neighbourhood, a mum was struggling to get a child’s wheelchair over the entrance to a charity shop. A man and I helped...

18.11.2024 5

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Loved ones of those choosing assisted dying are being unfairly maligned

This is In Conversation with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, a subscriber-only newsletter from i. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every single...

15.11.2024 8

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The monarchy is a cruel and unnecessary affront to the principle of equality

With the House of Windsor in a period of transition since the accession of King Charles III, three i writers consider the future of...

14.11.2024 8

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When will defenders of the Royal Family wake up? Enough is enough

By now the unctuous Dickie Arbiter will be on the airwaves telling us how bloody marvellous the Windsors are, and how blessed their subjects. Piers...

05.11.2024 3

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I have some inconvenient truths for Robert Jenrick about colonialism

This Saturday the next Tory leader will be declared. Robert Jenrick, one of the final two in the race, realises migrant bashing is no longer enough....

01.11.2024 6

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Men, I don’t care if you are a feminist - what are you doing to end rape?

In a restaurant last week, I was seated near a group of thirtysomethings, four women and two men. After some inconsequential tittle-tattle, one of the...

30.10.2024 10

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We need to do more than a bit of gentle soul-searching about Liam Payne

Benjamin Disraeli, the Victorian Tory novelist and statesman, who twice became prime minister, understood the impetus and cost of fame and power:...

21.10.2024 7

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The UK is allowing Gaza to be forgotten

This is In Conversation with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, a subscriber-only newsletter from i. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every single...

18.10.2024 3

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Keir Starmer is too scared to admit it: immigrants are a force for good

The Royal College of Psychiatry has just expressed concern that asylum seekers, who have endured physical and psychological harm, are being...

16.10.2024 10

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Starmer and Reeves have turned their backs on Britain's poorest

Earlier this year, a supermarket security guard accused a young woman of stealing nappies. She was carrying a child, a beautiful little girl with blue...

08.10.2024 8

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The national scandal at the heart of Britain's family courts

Ten years ago this month, Jack, aged 12, and Paul, who was nine, were locked in a house, with all escape routes blocked, and burned to death by their...

04.10.2024 10

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The truth about being a Muslim in Britain today

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has quit the Tory party because, she believes, it has become too right wing and toxic. I know and like Baroness Warsi. She’s...

02.10.2024 10

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I got swept away by Labour optimism - now I feel nauseous at their hypocrisy

I’ve just got back from Sri Lanka, a beautiful country, the people I met mostly serene and smiley. A happy place. Unexpected in a land which was...

24.09.2024 10

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Ethnic and religious loyalty risks leaving us morally bankrupt

On the last day of August I tweeted this: “So will @Keir_Starmer give his full backing to the MP for Ilford South [Jas Athwal], the landlord of...

06.09.2024 4

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British pride was built on false history – now we’ve woken up

Dear oh dear, GB News is apoplectic. As it always is, about deplorable “anti-British” treachery or wokery or whatever. Expect huff and puff from...

03.09.2024 5

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Prince Andrew has become a convenient distraction for the Royal Family

King Charles visited Southport, where three little girls were killed, last week. His compassion and care must have meant a lot to the grieving and...

27.08.2024 4

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Going on holiday is a privilege, not a right

This is In Conversation with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, a subscriber-only newsletter from i. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every single...

23.08.2024 4

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After 14 years of being crushed, low paid workers are fighting back

Google “Gabriela Rodriguez, cleane r” and you get a tidal wave of news reports from the UK media, as well various global outlets including the ...

21.08.2024 7

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Ignore the doom and division: integration is Britain’s biggest success story

Here come the populist excuses for the violent insurrections. Racist and fascist distributors of conspiracies instigated the riots, but the blame, as...

13.08.2024 10

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Unhappy with wealth, the super rich now want to control us

The billionaire owner of X, Elon Musk, is attempting to shape British politics and society. He has been clashing with Sir Keir Starmer and questioning...

09.08.2024 10

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Riots used to scare me - now I’m angry

I was there, pregnant, and marching against the National Front in Lewisham in 1977, and again, in the East End in 1978, after Altab Ali, a textile...

07.08.2024 5

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The BBC is an utter mess but we need it more than ever

I come not to bury the BBC but to praise it. More faintly than ever before, for reasons we will come to. But to me, this long surviving media body...

30.07.2024 4

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Men, this is a national emergency, so get off the sidelines

This is In Conversation with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, a subscriber-only newsletter from i. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every single...

26.07.2024 7

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Keir Starmer has one chance to defeat the virus of populism

In October 2022, then home secretary Suella Braverman disclosed to us her deepest yearning, her aching desire: “I would love to have a front page...

24.07.2024 4

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Trump will never condemn gun culture – to do so would be un-American

Since the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, our politicians, leader writers and commentators have quite lost their heads. The...

15.07.2024 8

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A new wave of independents can save British democracy

This is In Conversation with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, a subscriber-only newsletter from i. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every single...

12.07.2024 20

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It's voters not politicians who are stopping the march of the far right

Andrew Neil, chairman of The Spectator magazine, first (and short-lived) chairman of GB News, and a doubtlessly formidable right-wing thinker, wrote...

10.07.2024 40

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Oh, what a night! We can dream again

Oh, what a night! We went to an election party in a gay club in Vauxhall, London, me in the most shimmery, celebratory top ever, a buoyant, anti-Tory...

05.07.2024 3

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The real truth about immigration is hard for Sunak and Farage to stomach

In a letter published in this paper on Monday, William Blake of Hampshire wrote that he was supporting Reform because of “the overwhelming number of...

02.07.2024 10

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Gaza is the great unspoken subject of this tawdry election campaign

Electioneering is full on. Campaigns, mess-ups, sharpened messages, and increasingly combative speeches, TV debates, emotive vox pops, leaflets and...

01.07.2024 5

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I hope the corrupt Tories collapse. But Starmer, I am watching you

Used to be that most elected women and men believed that politics was about serving the people and the nation. After their 2010 victory, pumped-up,...

28.06.2024 5

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How state schools survived the Tories to become the best in the world

Labour’s plans to impose 20 per cent VAT on private school fees are causing much brouhaha. The Tories, well-heeled parents and heads cry, “It’s...

18.06.2024 10

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The Piano hit all the right notes in today’s kinder, warmer Britain

I’ve only just got to Channel 4’s wonderful series The Piano . After each episode, I learn a little more about the incredible versatility and...

14.06.2024 10

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Nigel Farage is weaponising class to defend his dog whistle prejudice

Oh lord, here I am, sticking up for Rishi Sunak, a politician I despise, because the odious and manipulative Nigel Farage is using the PM’s D-Day...

12.06.2024 9

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Brits are losing their work ethic as migrants work harder than ever

Electioneering politicians are banging on (again) about illegal and legal migrants. Picking on outsiders appeases disgruntled “patriots”. But get...

04.06.2024 10

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Diane Abbott is back and stronger than ever

I got my first proper job as a journalist around the time Diane Abbott, Bernie Grant, Keith Vaz and Paul Boateng became Labour MPs and brought colour...

31.05.2024 10

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Victorians were better informed about politics than we are today

My dad didn’t give me much love or care. But he was gripped by British politics and avidly read newspapers – passions I inherited. For that, and...

29.05.2024 30

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The BBC is failing the public with its deference to the Royals

Yet again we see Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and “non-working Royal”, outshining frontline Royals on the world stage. Outside the UK she is vastly...

21.05.2024 10

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The poverty children in the UK are subjected to is deliberate – never forget that

The Sunday Times Rich List appeared just after the Archbishop of Canterbury called on Labour to scrap the Tory two-child benefit cap and Gordon...

21.05.2024 20

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Rishi Sunak has fallen for David Cameron – the rest of us should be more wary

The Prime Minister delivered a stirring speech on Sunday. The world, he warned, “is in one of the most dangerous periods we’ve ever known”. True...

15.05.2024 30

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London is relentlessly criticised – but this city was right on Brexit and right on Susan Hall

I’ve known Sadiq Khan for a long time. Unlike Susan Hall – his intolerant, blinkered and spiteful Tory adversary – he is sharp, free thinking,...

07.05.2024 30

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The young will never forgive the old over their stance on Gaza

This is In Conversation with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, a subscriber-only newsletter from i. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every single...

03.05.2024 10

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The unprecedented betrayal at the heart of the Rwanda plan

Rishi Sunak applauds his Rwanda asylum act, now passed by Parliament. He believes this “victory” makes him a political champ. A major operation...

01.05.2024 50

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Something about Angela Rayner turns men into jumpy teenage boys

Something about Angela Rayner seems to turn a whole lot of male politicians and commentators into jumpy teenage boys. In the Sunday Times this week,...

23.04.2024 9

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