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Yasmin Alibhai-BrownThe Guardian |
There is an exodus of nurses out of the UK. You may not have heard this news because such information would disrupt the dark folktale spun by many...
I was at the Oxford Literary Festival last weekend, speaking as well as listening. I’ve been doing that for many years. This time, the mood in the...
Well, I never! A membership list of the secretive men-only Garrick Club has been published for the first time ever! And guess what? It contains names...
I am in danger of being classed as an extremist and terrorist. As is my friend, Natasha Walter – Jewish, British, writer, redoubtable feminist and...
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What if our Commons had, say, 50 candidates unattached to the major parties? Imagine that. Come with me through this thought experiment. Politicians...
My son was born on 30 January, 1978. On that very day, Margaret Thatcher, then Opposition leader, spoke thus on a Granada TV programme: “People are...
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Here comes yet another poll of the Tory faithful, this one commissioned by Lady McAlpine, an incurable Boris Johnson addict. More than half of the...
At last, a Tory MP I can fulsomely praise: Kate Kniveton. Her voting record would, no doubt, dismay this socialist, but she’s become an unlikely...
Over the years, you will have read me fervently praising the BBC. All children of the old empire carry this faith in their hearts. We are, literally,...
A Syrian refugee and doctor I met in London last week told me, with immense sadness, that Western governments and systems, once widely admired in the...
Betty Boothroyd, who became the first female Speaker of the House of Commons, and later, a Baroness, was going to use her valedictory speech to call...
News impatiently rushes forwards. Producers and consumers get caught up in the currents of now and the near future. But sometimes, one needs to get...
Do you know what “woke” means? Are you with or against those fighting wokeness and cancel culture? Would you vote for an MP just because he/she...
How much more can the NHS suffer before it expires? Should the life-support machine, which is itself getting timeworn, be turned off as an act of...
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The ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office has generated political and social quakes not seen since the 1966 BBC TV play about homelessness, Cathy...
We cross into the new year and try to start afresh, leave all the bad stuff behind. As 2024 begins, such renewal feels foolish and delusional. Brutal...
I don’t feel at all merry, or full of festive cheer. Admittedly, the lead up to Christmas has always felt excessive, noisy, disconnected from its...
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Christmas: the season of joy, peace, laughter, lights and trees, thankfulness, sharing, charitable giving, presents, carols, drinking and eating too...
You may think the row over the Parthenon Sculptures is old news. In fact, it is a canary down the coal mine, a harbinger of what’s to come....
The Windsors find themselves in a mess. Again. When will they learn to observe the environment and avoid these reputational catastrophes? The first...
I know I must be assiduous, fair, rational and irreproachable when writing this column on Gaza and censorship. But the subject is so emotive and...
Recently, at a grand dinner, a feisty British-Asian woman in a black suit bounded up and said: “I always wanted to meet you, such a celebrity.”...
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I heard the news, like everyone else, with disbelief. David Cameron, oops, Lord Cameron, is now Foreign Secretary. The new Lord was installed, as if...
So, you think we live in a free country? That we can speak, write, tweet, repost, at will? That the state cannot control what we think, read, listen...
I travelled across Canada in October, ostensibly for a break, but really for complicated personal, and also political, reasons. The first was to...
Sorry, dear readers, but I feel compelled to write again on the malevolent legacy of Boris Johnson and the fans, champions and patrons who still carry...
I re-entered Britain’s orbit last Thursday after a blissful, media-free holiday in Canada. Along with jetlag, I had to get psyched up as I got back...
I re-entered Britain’s orbit last Thursday after a blissful, media-free holiday in Canada. Along with jetlag, I had to get psyched up as I got back...
Suella Braverman gets attention by starting fires. This week her words spread fierce blazes and blinding smoke around these isles. Again. She is more...
What I saw at Tory conferences made me never want to go again. I had a column in The Independent for 18 years before I joined i in 2016. Ian...
Rishi Sunak may be poised to pull another dead rabbit out of his tatty hat. Last week, he appeared at a Downing Street podium, full of vim. It was an...
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Ever since Brexit, right-wing politicians and their media, academic and think-tank collaborators have been militantly upbeat and, also, brutishly...
Dear oh dear. Those patriotic snowflakes – many still clinging on to Brexit delusions – are triggered again. The Proms, the BBC’s annual season...
When it comes to child sex abuse, too many professionals, local authorities, communities, national institutions and the media look after their own –...
I had read and heard stuff about Andrew Tate. What I knew I abhorred, nebulously and intuitively. He was clearly an egotist/narcissist/sexist/brutal...