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Yasmin Alibhai-BrownThe Guardian |
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...
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...
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...
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...
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With the House of Windsor in a period of transition since the accession of King Charles III, three i writers consider the future of...
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...
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....
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...
Benjamin Disraeli, the Victorian Tory novelist and statesman, who twice became prime minister, understood the impetus and cost of fame and power:...
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The Royal College of Psychiatry has just expressed concern that asylum seekers, who have endured physical and psychological harm, are being...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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 ...
Here come the populist excuses for the violent insurrections. Racist and fascist distributors of conspiracies instigated the riots, but the blame, as...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
Since the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, our politicians, leader writers and commentators have quite lost their heads. The...
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Andrew Neil, chairman of The Spectator magazine, first (and short-lived) chairman of GB News, and a doubtlessly formidable right-wing thinker, wrote...
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...
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...
Electioneering is full on. Campaigns, mess-ups, sharpened messages, and increasingly combative speeches, TV debates, emotive vox pops, leaflets and...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Electioneering politicians are banging on (again) about illegal and legal migrants. Picking on outsiders appeases disgruntled “patriots”. But get...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I’ve known Sadiq Khan for a long time. Unlike Susan Hall – his intolerant, blinkered and spiteful Tory adversary – he is sharp, free thinking,...
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Rishi Sunak applauds his Rwanda asylum act, now passed by Parliament. He believes this “victory” makes him a political champ. A major operation...
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,...