Articles tagged Yasmin Alibhai-Brown:
Edinburgh Fringe Diary: Sunday
- 5 Aug 2019
This was one of those days when (almost) everything went right and I can go to bed happy. Mind you, it didn't start off that way. I got up earlier than I would have liked to record this week's For the Many podcast with Jacqui Smith. We recorded about 80 minutes before I...
My Ideal Dinner Party Guests
- 12 Feb 2019
I was talking to someone the other day about the demise of the dinner party. And it set me thinking. If I held a dinner party for sixteen people in politics who I know, who would I invite to guarantee the sparkiest conversation? Anyway, this is the list I came up with... ...
Six Weeks in the Autumn - My Very Personal Diary From 2002
- 21 Sep 2018
I was trying to find a database file on my laptop earlier, and stumbled across a Word file called ‘Diary’ from November 2002. I opened it out of curiosity and found 7,000 words from a diary I clearly kept over six weeks from the autumn of that year. Suffice to say, it brought ...
Iain 1 Yasmin 1
- 17 Jan 2010
I know how you all love it when I mention Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, so here goes. On the BBC News Channel paper review last night she talked about Jenni Russell's article in the Sunday Times on class. Here's how the exchange went... YAB: "We had a funny kind of statement fro...
Message to Yasmin: Demonising Families Is Not the Answer
- 17 Nov 2008
This lunchtime I had the anguish pleasure of listening to Yasmin Alibhai-Brown tell Jeremy Vine that in the field of child protection, it is families who are the problem rather than the solution. Even for Yasmin, that was a corker. In her opinion families just can't be trusted...
Is Yasmin Right? Does Blogging Impoverish Democracy?
- 2 Feb 2007
I don't mind admitting I enjoyed myself yesterday on Sunday AM. The only other time I have been on the programme I did a paper review with Polly Toynbee and was extremely nervous. I remember locking swords with her on the Iraq war and her looking shocked that I should dare to ...