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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

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Let's call Farage's deportation policy what it really is

22.09.2025 2

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Racism towards Diane Abbott is worse when it comes from her own party

17.09.2025 6

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I have recoiled from flags all my life – false patriotism is all around us

10.09.2025 9

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Keir Starmer, let me tell you why we can't vote for you any more

03.09.2025 6

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I appeared on Any Questions - and it revealed the truth about immigration protests

26.08.2025 4

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Ignore the narratives about hateful Britain - I've never been prouder to be British

20.08.2025 9

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Means test the state pension - pensioners today have become too selfish

29.07.2025 10

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Why I refuse to 'understand' the mobs outside asylum hotels

28.07.2025 8

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The mood is shifting on Gaza – but spineless UK is being left behind

22.07.2025 3

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From ‘The Salt Path’ to my fake columns, we can't recognise truth anymore

15.07.2025 10

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Bob Vylan and Kneecap row shows the right's hypocrisy on free speech

30.06.2025 30

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Support for Israel is fading away - but our leaders haven't caught up

25.06.2025 4

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The questions the BBC must answer on impartiality

18.06.2025 4

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The one thing Starmer can never say again to pensioners like me 

10.06.2025 7

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I never thought I’d say this, but I actually feel sorry for Sarah Vine

03.06.2025 7

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Starmer won’t fix child poverty because it doesn’t help him win an election

28.05.2025 20

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We think our society is free - it isn’t

21.05.2025 3

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Pity Farage and Starmer, the real 'strangers' on this inclusive island

14.05.2025 10

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Blind allegiance to Nigel Farage will backfire on his supporters

06.05.2025 30

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Virginia Giuffre’s plight has a parallel here in the UK

29.04.2025 5

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Gary Lineker is bravely speaking truth to power on Israel

25.04.2025 10

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I often despair at England - but here I got a second chance

22.04.2025 10

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Now the rest of you see the ugly face of America

15.04.2025 4

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Our empathy is at an all time low - and it's down to identity politics

11.04.2025 3

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Right-wingers demanding Lucy Connolly's release don't care about women in prison

08.04.2025 10

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The political and cultural cowardice of Trump and Starmer

03.04.2025 30

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Boys are the victims of an epidemic of fatherlessness

25.03.2025 7

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Trump's frenzied attacks on 'wokeism' are infecting the UK

21.03.2025 9

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Blind faith that Labour will do the right thing is unforgivably naive

18.03.2025 4

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The conversation about trans rights is cooling – we are embracing kindness again

11.03.2025 7

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Am I 'woke' for seeing Picasso's art through the lens of his misogyny?

07.03.2025 4

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I despair at the decision to remove ‘Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone’ from the BBC

05.03.2025 10

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I actually burned my bra in the 70s - but young women today have lost the meaning of feminism

25.02.2025 20

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I may spoil my ballot in the next election for the first time ever - this is why

21.02.2025 6

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There is a new, deadly threat to democracy - and it's bigger than Trump

19.02.2025 4

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A stranger invited me for lunch. I'm so glad I went

12.02.2025 10

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The outrage that has brought Jeremy Corbyn and Nigel Farage together

07.02.2025 10

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I am filled with fear and fury at the ballooning hatred of immigrants like me

04.02.2025 7

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Palestinians returning home will find nothing but dust and stones

28.01.2025 9

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The fightback against Donald Trump is already beginning

24.01.2025 3

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I've been speaking to British-Pakistanis – this is what they think of the grooming scandal

22.01.2025 6

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The special relationship with America has always been abusive

13.01.2025 10

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Darkness is coming in 2025 - it's up to us not to look away

10.01.2025 30

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Groomers, their protectors, and right wing extremists have one thing in common

I am triply sickened by the British-Pakistani grooming scandal. Firstly, by the men who objectified and used young white girls and their families,...

08.01.2025 6

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Labour must expose Farage for what he is

Farage, Farage everywhere; not a drop of doubt from pollsters, pundits or political insiders. His time, they say, is coming. Thanks to our...

30.12.2024 4

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Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs have only improved Christmas

Christmas was not celebrated in our household before 1989. My ex-husband and I, both Shia Muslims, loved the street decorations. Our son had small...

24.12.2024 9

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: This is how I stay young

It was my birthday on 10 December. I find it impossibly hard to type the number, so will just say that I could have officially retired 15 years...

17.12.2024 4

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

On Question Time in Lincoln last week, a white, middle-aged man in the audience said this: “Migrants, illegal or legal, weren’t responsible for...

13.12.2024 6

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

An acquaintance of mine who has been taking care of her severely disabled partner, is, herself, now becoming incapacitated. They’ve sold their big...

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 8

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