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Oct 23, 2018 · Yasmin Alibhai-Brown gave a robust response to LBC listeners who described her as “anti-British” and “anti-white”. The author and columnist said people feel she is not entitled to criticise the country because “I am a brown-skinned woman”.
Apr 19, 2024 · Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: ‘Thirty years after the OJ Simpson case, a rising number of men feel entitled to control, physically intimidate and violate females’ (Photo: Getty Images)
- Doctoring The Past
- Disputes Over Statues
- Subjects Rather Than Citizens
- Stolen Artefacts
- Moving Forward
- A Conversation I Had This Week
- Yasmin’s Pick
In this age of hyper-information, conservatives globally seek to repossess and doctor the past. India, under Modi’s Hindu nationalist ruling party, for example, is cleansing Mughal history from textbooksand trashing precious relics from those centuries. Saudi Arabia, which maniacally insists that Islam has no beginning or end, has been bulldozing i...
The right-wing think tank Policy Exchange (PE) has embarked on a project promoting historical patriotism. It is chaired by Trevor Phillips, who, with his brother Mike, wrote in a poignant book on Windrush: “If our citizenship was to mean more than the paper on which it was written, it would be necessary for the whole country to reassess not only it...
The conservative historian Andrew Roberts and Zareer Masani, a British Indian, previously of BBC Radio 4, are among them. Masani is part of the PE study, too. These multiracial defenders of Britain complain about being gagged, without providing evidence. They accuse the BBC of always bashing white people when telling the story of slavery and ignori...
Unsurprisingly, the propagandists are against the return of any stolen artefacts or full disclosures in museums. Oh and some of their “truth tellers” don’t flinch from positioning “primitive” Africans and indigenous peoples below “civilized” Europeans. Ironically, notes Lester, the best critique of the History Reclaimed project comes from the group...
Please don’t tell me I should feel proud of our British Asian PM and Home Secretary. I find such conversations risible and tedious. Do you really think anti-racists care only about the colour and ethnicity of those who make it to the corridors of power or ivory towers of wealth? If so, then we have either explained the cause very poorly, or you hav...
I was on the Jeremy Vine Show last Tuesday and inevitably got into hot arguments about Prince Harry, his book and interviews. The other panellist was from The Telegraph, a decent, kindly chap, but properly royalist and English. He thought Harry was wrong for talking and writing about his life in the public space. “But so are you, and so am I,” I re...
The one and only Olivia Coleman was on the Graham Norton Show with Black British actor Michael Ward, talking about her new film Empire of Light, directed by Sam Mendes, in which Ward plays her young lover. Both find themselves and a sense of belonging. The storyline reminded me of the feisty radio and TV presenter Venessa Feltz and Ben Ofoedu, a da...
Dec 26, 2022 · Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on how difficult it is to write about Israel’s systemic oppression of Palestinian people. So many people just don’t want to hear it, and the smears will inevitably follow.
Oct 5, 2023 · by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, the i, weekly newletter I won the Orwell Prize for Journalism 21 years ago. The judges praised, in particular, my “courageous” columns on Israel’s misuse of power in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Apr 12, 2015 · YASMIN Alibhai-Brown doesn't feel English. In her book, she quotes Billy Bragg trying to persuade her that she is. "The reason why so many black and Asian people want to come here,"...
Sep 22, 2023 · Our current parliamentarians and much of the mainstream media seem to tacitly disregard Israel’s relentless, punitive actions in those territories, in spite of reports by Amnesty International ...
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