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Yasmin alibhai-brown

@y_alibhai

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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
1 year
#questiontime What a night. Was so pumped up with adrenaline and rage sitting next to the misleading @RobertJenrick that I was up till 4 am. Thank you to all who have sent warm messages
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@y_alibhai
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3 years
How small and mean our country feels today, led by @BorisJohnson a chancer who has never understood democracy or responsibility. And has never made a memorable, weighty speech.
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@y_alibhai
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2 months
74% of Rochdale is white you numpties crying about ' the Muslim vote'.
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4 years
#PritiPatel Defend her, they say, she's one of us, a Ugandan Asian. Go hang your head in shame, say I. For she's one of them - a right wing fanatic & appalling human being.
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@y_alibhai
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3 years
My sister's funeral today. Could only watch online. Covid killed her but mental illness took her away first- beauty, her love of the arts, her spirit, all went. Been grieving a long time. She's at peace now. Still feel bereft.
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@y_alibhai
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2 years
France, a Republic, gets ten times more tourists than the UK. Check out World Bank data.
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1 year
Sarah Vine @WestminsterWAG writes @BorisJohnson was an agile cat yesterday. Go to @Specsavers ma'am. The rest of us saw a lumbering, aging warthog.
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@y_alibhai
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10 months
Here's my verdict. @BorisJohnson was a chancer, narcissistic and unworthy. That Truss woman was a crazed capitalist. @RishiSunak is the worst: a billionaire egoist, & extremist right winger only interested in power and the powerful.
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@y_alibhai
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1 year
400 plus public swimming pools closed in the last decade. A good number on the most deprived areas. Meanwhile power grid is upgraded to heat the private swimming pool in the Yorkshire home of @RishiSunak . A tale of two nations.
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
4 months
So the US and UK punish Yemen to protect goods on ships, but do NOTHING to protect Palestinian civilians. This is their moral universe.
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
6 years
I, a progressive Muslim, do not care for veils but totally mistrust @BorisJohnson . Tough call. Spent the last many hours explaining my complicated position. And realized this political conman has now incapacitated reformists like myself. Loathsome, self-serving creep.
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@y_alibhai
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2 years
Last night I spent time with lifelong, traditional Tories in Salisbury. Almost all of them feel shame and anger about the state of their party today &despise the political conman @BorisJohnson
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
9 months
God forgive me. I truly hate @SuellaBraverman , @RobertJenrick and @OliverDowden .
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
1 year
I am indebted to Britain for taking me in 50 years ago, migrants today deserve the same chance
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
5 years
#BorisJohnson for he's a jolly good liar, he's a jolly good liar, he's a jolly good liar, so say most of us.
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@y_alibhai
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4 months
Tonight I can't, even briefly turn away from Israel's brutality in Gaza. One in ten Palestinian children have lost their legs. People marching across the globe. Western leaders like the three monkeys- won't see the evil, don't hear the cries, say nothing.
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5 years
A man just pushed me so I fell in Shaftsbury ave then ran off. Injured my wrist and knee. What is happening to our capital and country. Can't stop crying
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
4 years
#standwithjkrowling back off you hyenas. Misogyny dressed up as righteousness stinks. No Body Shop products henceforth for me either.
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
4 years
I will not 'celebrate' our exit from the EU. Our country is shattered. It's their party and I'll cry if I want to. My column
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3 months
Brits of all ages, races,ethnicities, faiths and no faith have gathered and called for a ceasefire in Gaza. Few law breakers among them. Mps and the Speaker call them 'Islamicists' and 'terrorists'. Despicable.
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@y_alibhai
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5 years
#sajidjavid there aren't many things more self-humiliating than a son of a migrant trying too hard to show he is a tough 'patriot' who will keep out desperate incomers. Michael Howard tried it too. And all to become leader of a fast rotting party.
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3 years
I married him thirty years ago today, my blue eyed Englishman who looks a bit like Sean Bean. Am wearing the pearls and bangles he bought me. Love still burns bright.
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@y_alibhai
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1 year
Resist the spin. @RishiSunak is a fundamentalist Brexiter, opressor of the poor and defender of the rich and powerful.
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1 year
In 2020 @RobertJenrickMP admitted he broke the law and helped a billionaire avoid paying £40 mill local taxes. Today he accuses wretched asylum seekers of 'breaking the law'. Repulsive and dishonest.
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
1 year
#BBCQuestionTime Please remember I pointed out Stanley Johnson’s wifebeating in response to Ken Clarke who chummily portrayed Johnson as a good chap. Why are viewers criticising Fiona Bruce not Clarke? Is that not sexism?
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
6 years
@NadineDorries Gee Nadine thanks for being SO nice and telling me to be NICE and grateful to GB and not express views you don't like. Shall I smile like a picaninny too while being nice and grateful?
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
1 year
We remainers will no longer be bullied. We told them. They didn't listen. Perhaps they'll listen now. My column
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
5 months
Oh look William, Kate and their kids are wearing denim in their Xmas pic. See? They're just like us. Down with the people.
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1 year
#PaulOGradyRIP was a ferocious fighter for those excluded and punished by Tory governments. He was a proud leftie. Funny how right wing hacks focus on his love of animals and not his lifelong support people failed by the ruling classes.
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@y_alibhai
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3 years
My only sister, mentally ill, died of Covid on Sunday. Hadn't seen her for months.Guilt, sorrow, loss of the last person in my birth family, gratitude too. Her carers at Beechland care home, Loughton, were incredible. She loved fags and hugs. So many of us are greiving.
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2 years
Last week @AllegraStratton said on radio she is still fond of @BorisJohnson . Today we read she is in line for a peerage. How did the @guardian , BBC et al who employed her think she was an honourable journo?
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
5 years
I want @CarolineLucas to be PM. No other politician has her calmness, clarity, intelligence, commitment, charm and principles. Outside mainstream party politics, she could bring some cohesion to this ruptured nation.
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
6 months
Just been harangued on the tube by an extremist Zionist accusing me of being soft on Hamas. Was minding my own business. Now am both furious and nervous.
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
6 months
#RoyalFamily Never mind the legal threats and royalist outrage. Was concern expressed by anyone in the family about Archie's skin colour? Who? Why can't we know? We pay for this lot. But are prevented from knowing truths about them. That should outrage Brits.
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
3 years
On this day at Bristol Temple Mead railway station a young man who looked a bit like Paul McCartney came up and asked if we could share a cab. Thirty three years and one daughter later, still in love.
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
4 years
#Goodchildhood report find UK kids are the unhappiest in Europe. Ah but we are world beating. Altogether now Land of Hope and Glory.
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
5 months
People accused of antisemitism & sacked for expressing horror over Israel's murder of over 18,000 Palestinians and other war crimes. No condemnation for individuals & nations who back Israel's actions. We're in moral hell.
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@y_alibhai
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1 year
Remainers still scorned and called names- 'remainiacs', ' remoaners'. So how about 'brexshitters' for brexiter bullshitters? Fair play or totally out of order?
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
5 years
What if those aggressive thugs verbally abusing @annasoubrymp or @OwenJones84 were black? Asian? Muslim? Would Met officers stand by idly and let it go on?
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
6 years
Listen bigots. I will not be a grateful little brown migrant. I am a citizen and taxpayer. So will express my views freely as a columnist. If you find that hard it's not my problem.
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1 year
#partygate our money is paying for top lawyers to enable @BorisJohnson wriggle out of the partygate scandals. They may get him completely exonerated. Shame and scandals never stick when it comes to elites. This is 'Great' Britain.
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
1 year
#CamillaParkerBowles says writers should be free to write what they want. Does she apply this noble principle to Harry? Can one of her good journo mates ask her?
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
9 months
The Tory war on wretched asylum seekers to gain votes is not working. The polls have them tumbling. British people are ki der than they calculate. My column
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
5 months
33 years married today. He, wearing a black jumper, gave me a box of Milk Tray. Perfect.
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
6 years
#Eugeniewedding She has no public duties, her dad's raking it in, and we pay £2 million for her 'royal' wedding? This is one of the richest families in the UK, which lives off the state. Grow up royalists. See the light, Stop hanging on to childhood fairy tales.
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
6 years
Is it safe to be back on twitter? Have people- including royal wedding journalist junkies- run out of breath yet? Proof again that GB is an infantalized, escapist nation.
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
5 years
Muslim parents in a Birmingham school dont want their kids to learn about gay love and sex. When are British Muslims going to talk about and deal with the embedded homophobia in our families and communities?
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1 year
Such a relief these Tories have not turned all Brits into snarling bulldogs.Many care about boat people. A policy based on hate knocked back by human kindness. Hallelujah
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1 year
The govt admits 200 asylum seeking kids have disappeared while in state care. Imagine the public response if 200 Battersea dogs ran away because they were left unprotected.
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
4 years
Is anyone else having a can't-bear-this-any more down day? Effing trolls need not respond.
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
3 years
Track and Trace handed to profit greedy Tory cronies. Shambles. Vaccination handed to the NHS. Speedy and excellent. Who does it best? You decide.
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
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NI peace. Mo Molam did the hard work by connecting with all sides. Tony Blair took all the credit. Sill does. Last week said 'I chose Mo because she was completely different' etc. See how women have their true stories subsumed by ambitious men?
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
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'Abhorrent' says @Keir_Starmer about racist words used by Tory donor about @HackneyAbbott . As abhorrent is that the Labour leader keeps her out of the plp and uses her as a political tool.
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
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#LeicesterCityFC listen to how they mourn for a man who was a foreigner, cosmopolitan, 'person of nowhere' in Theresa May's words. What do your white natvist influencers have to say about that??
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1 year
Brexit is dead. Brexiteers are like grieving relatives who are hanging on to the body as it rots.
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1 year
#rishisunak Know the man. Now he receives the neo Fascist Italian leader as if she is a kindred spirit. This is how far right this PM and his Tories now are.
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
5 months
London last night. Top city. Thank you @SadiqKhan and all City Hall. Don't heed grumps or racists. Millions are with you.
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@y_alibhai
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4 years
How much are Sir Richard (Branson) Sir Phillip (Green), and other fat cat knights of the realm donating for this crisis? Oh and how much does the nation get from the millionaire Royals?
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
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How did we get from the sacrifices of Jesus Christ to a fat, beardy man who feeds greed and the Queen with a vast, state provided fortune? Devout Christians, please explain.
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4 years
Scumbags really came for me today like angry wasps after I was on @skytv with @adamboultonSKY and @IainDale . I go on doing what I do. And they get more frantic. This is what happens to women of colour who dare to have and express views.
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Just bought a trolly load from @sainsburys . It's not where I usually shop. They stood up to racist bullies. Showed there's some honour in the business world So it's a big thank you.
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1 year
Men rape women. All men are not rapists. Teenage asylum seekers allegedly rape a schoolgirl. All asylum seekers are rapists. The world viewed through Nigel Farage's grubby windows.
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
5 years
#SteveBannon Dear @BBCr4today by giving a self described racist and friend of fascists a prime slot, you have abandoned all values and judgement. Disgraceful. Your editor needs to explain why to licence fee payers.
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#antiwokemadness once again they rage against Cadbury for not having the word Easter on ALL their choc eggs. Tell me, did Christ ask for a creme egg when he rose on the third day? No. So how is this an insult to Christianity?
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3 years
There they go casting Diana as a mentally fragile woman. She wanted that interview. She wanted to tell the world about faithless Charles & the cold Windsors.The BBC's unethical means do not change that. Charles had spoken out on TV before this. Royalwash
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
1 year
Spitting image mocked the queen, Philip and Charles. No-one said that meant they have lost support.nSouth Park does what South Park does, mocks and laughs at Harry and Meghan and it is proof of universal rejection of the pair. Sick.
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@y_alibhai
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6 years
So now Brexit bullies are hounding the journalist @carolecadwalla . Bullies and bastards on the rampage. Defend this brave journalist- she is getting to them.
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@y_alibhai
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4 years
Dear fellow Asains, including @pritipatel , now is not the time to claim 'we too' or 'me too'. We must stand with black people in the west who suffer more violent racism than any of us. Say it loud. We're with you all the way, brothers and sisters.
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Those getting v cross about me not respecting 'their' St George. He was half Turkish and Half Palestinian. Hi Guys I hear you. Hopefully will see you at the pro-Palestinian marches.
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1 year
The election campaign has started. Blame the strangers on our shores was the prelude. The budget is mostly spin. After 13 years they know what gets voters excited. Complaceny is unwise. These cads could return to power.
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@y_alibhai
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4 years
Sitting in Kings College Chapel Cambridge. Praying for strength to get through the coming times. Remembering too how fraught the history of this nation is.
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4 years
@scatatkins @metpoliceuk This is sickening, unforgivable. A black man racially slandering a Jewish dad and child. Using Christianity. Hope he is found and charged. So upset for his victims
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@y_alibhai
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5 months
2024. My prayers. Please stop the suffering in Gaza. Let the hostages be freed. Don't let this lead to the next world war. Get the Tories out. And let Labour find moral courage and its political principles. Wish you all well.
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6 years
How many Brexshitters went or are going skiing in Europe? How many own second homes there? What EU wines do they drink? We must be told.
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
4 years
Had a surgical procedure yesterday. Want to thank the NHS doctor, nurses, receptionists, every single person at Queen Charlottes Hospital. They know what it means to be human.
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So they come for me sicko right wingers & others who want to bully us into following their orders on what one is allowed to say about anti-Semitism. Like I care. Whinge on. Trash me. I WILL think & speak freely. Because I am told we have these freedoms.
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
4 years
#PEERAGES how degraded &corrupt British democracy becomes. Election fraud, illegalties in the Brexit ref, politicizationof the civil service , selling off the nhs, cronyism these peers - genocide denier, oligarch, collaborators...a bit of me dies.
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
6 years
#LabourAntisemitism nothing will placate the enemies of Corbyn. Only his head on a plate. Really depressing.
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
8 months
Nominated again this year for columnist of the year, Society of Editors Media Freedom Awards. At my age. Surprised and elated.
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
8 months
#Peckham shop incident. I don't know exactly what happened. But many Asians ARE racially prejudiced against black people. It's not OK for Asian shopkeepers to be demonised by black Britons, but we must examine our antiblack prejudices. Remember Uganda
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
4 years
#colstonstatue don't remember such outrage when Lenin statues were pulled down in the old Soviet Union or when Saddam Hussein's statue was triumphantly razed. Those were reel bad guys I guess. Unlike an English enslaver.
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
4 years
Tubs of @benandjerrysUK were bought last night. Then shared with rough sleepers. You could do the same.
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Dear @Keir_Starmer you say your cause and role is to stop 'antisemitism sneaking back into the Labour party undercover,'. I get the first part. But does 'undercover' mean any support for the collectively punished Palestinains?, Asking for many friends.
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
1 year
Far away from the madding, supplicant crowds. Just read republicans peacefully protesting have been rounded up. ANOTHER FREEDOM SNATCHED.
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Tripped over. Fell. Hurt my knee badly. Went to the local small injuries emergency service. Got seen, treated by efficient staff. In one and a half hours. God Bless the NHS.
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4 years
Right. Buying several tubs of @benandjerrysUK icrecreams today.
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5 years
I feel so low, so pessimistic, so cold. Clutching a hot water bottle dreading the election and future.
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8 years
Deeply immoral, those Labour Mps who did not vote to condemn Saudi Arabia in Yemen. Just to punish @jeremycorbyn .Go hang your heads in shame
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@y_alibhai
Yasmin alibhai-brown
4 years
Cooked fish pie tonight. Sent some to a lovely young English/Spanish couple who have just moved into a flat upstairs. They, in turn gave us some Spanish tapas. Lockdown bonds.
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Yasmin alibhai-brown
4 years
#thejohnsons Stanley is getting French citizenship so his clan can get EU rights. The rest of us lower beings must just get on with it. Is @BorisJohnson party to the escape plot? Brexiters does this not make you mad?
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#PeoplesVoteMarch Let's walk buddies, and shout and wave and chant and hug and rally. Just to show Brexiters who scorn, mock, diss and warn us. The human spirit must remain strong and defiant. We are right and they are wrong.
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6 years
To the man who gave me a note on the tube then fled. This' bloody Paki' is going nowhere. Your hands were so grubby they left a stain on the paper. Those are stains on your heart too.
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6 years
I hated my blue passport. The first one identified me as a colonial subject and with the rest I always had scary interviews at airports. Never happened with the EU ppt.
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Those who want to understand privilege the Johnsons are the perfect case study. Slide into jobs and power without effort. No stress. Doors flung open.
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