June 10, 2020

Priti Patel Pushes the Hostile Environment

When Priti Patel was appointed home secretary, innumerable Britons were scandalized. She’d been sacked by Theresa May for breaking rules of office. She’d been overpromoted just […]
October 19, 2019

The Far Right Threat

Do you know who David Parnham is? You should. He is a white supremacist who sent fake anthrax to the Queen, two Bishops, Theresa May when […]
October 19, 2019

How Six Men Destroyed the UK’s Old Parliamentary System

This week Boris Johnson – our very own Julius Caesar- has really got going. He is in a flurry, in a mad hurry to get out […]
October 19, 2019

Leftie Monarchists

Leftie Monarchists Not our Olivia Colman, not her too. She, who the supercilious High Tory Charles Moore disdains for her ‘distinctly working class face’, she, who […]
May 8, 2019

Democrats, your nation needs you

Last week I tweeted: “The nation is ungovernable. A stable old democracy is being demolished by populist politicians. It’s worse than an army coup… What will […]
April 6, 2017

White and Black Working Classes

  Not a week goes by without some right wing British politician or pundit bewailing the lot of the ‘left behind’ white working classes. Most of […]
June 26, 2016

A Plague On Those Who Brought Us Here

Brexit Win Yasmin Alibhai-Brown   On Wednesday morning a talented young, black musician was beaten up in a park in South London and told to ‘get […]
June 26, 2016

Brexit, White, Black, Shades of Brown

  The EU referendum has ruptured political parties, families and communities, lacerated national cohesion. Black and Asian Britons have gone through the same upheavals and anguish, […]
June 12, 2016

Remain – why are we stuck with such duds?

We may, probably will, leave the EU thanks to jingoists,  xenophobes, clueless millions who think their country was great when it way grey and mingy and the […]