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Yasmin Alibhai Brown

@yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social
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Left-wing columnist, author, provocateur

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Lisa Gerrish 💙 @gerrishlisa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Macklemore said “What happened to me is bigger than one artist or one stage," he argued and referenced Kraft saying “When the billionaire class can decide which voices are allowed on stage and which ones are too dangerous to hear, everyone should be paying attention." www.aol.com/articles/mac...
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Macklemore announces 'Free Palestine Tour' as he delivers brutal 8-word blow to Ed Sheeran - AOL
Rapper Macklemore announced his upcoming tour dates on social media in the aftermath of getting kicked out of Ed Sheeran's tour due to his controversial comments
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Time to deport all these fighting age men terrorising our patriotic lifeboat volunteers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
RNLI facility had been targeted by activists trying to stop asylum seekers landing in boats from the Channel
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Graeme Tiffany @graemetiffany.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Yasmin Alibhai Brown @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Shortlisted for columnist of the year in the Society of Editor's Freedom award. Won last year. Lefitism lives and fights on.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
£72 million from 2 individuals - both of whom have faced questions about money laundering, both of whom live/d overseas to avoid tax - is not compatible with democracy. I don't care if it's Reform, Labour or whoever. We can't function like this. Not for long. So how do we fix it? My plan:
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Uplifting News @upliftingnews.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A $50 million gift will fund Native student scholarships for the next five years and create a permanent endowment to support Indigenous students for generations.
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A $50 million gift from MacKenzie Scott is being dedicated entirely to Native students, with $10 million funding scholarships over the next five years and $40 million placed in a permanent endowment to support Native students for generations to come.
A $50 million gift from MacKenzie Scott is being dedicated entirely to Native students, with $10 million funding scholarships over the next five years and $40 million placed in a permanent endowment to support Native students for generations to come.
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Andrew Hughes @hughesey143.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm not a public figure Yasmin, but for what it's worth "These people belong in these isles, they are us.". Indeed, many of them are the very best of us.
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Yasmin Alibhai Brown @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Pls read my column in the I Paper today. You will need to pay a small amount to the paper, but it is one of the most important columns I have ever written.
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Graeme Tiffany @graemetiffany.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
UK ICE?
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His Royal Huwness 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐸🇵🇸🇪🇺 @litterygeniarse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've been sharing this a LOT.
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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It is And the response has been pathetic so far
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Yasmin Alibhai Brown @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Blackshirts marching against small boats. And Brits supporting them. What next? Protests against ambulance paramedics helping anyone of colour? (cos they could be 'illegals') And inner city surgeries with diverse patients? The intolerable being normalised.
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Quaker Socialists @quakersocialists.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Come and hear @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social speak at the Grunwick conference at 12 noon, this Saturday morning (Sept 05), at Sands Films, Rotherhithe SE16. Book a place at: www.sandsfilms.co.uk/sands-films-music-room.html
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🔥 Europe is starting to push Palantir out. Things are looking rough for Palantir in Europe… …as they are increasingly seen as a danger to sovereignty with a high risk of structural lock-in and major ethical concerns. Please share.
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Europe is pushing Palantir out.
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Yasmin Alibhai Brown @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
And I love @iandunt.bsky.social . His sharp mind and fearless commentaries.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I love getting to team up with the legendary @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social. The pro-Brexit arguments come across as laughable and archaic in the current context. inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...
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Did Brexit steal our soul, or unleash Britain? What The i Paper experts say
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Ian Dunt, Julie Burchill and Mark Wallace reflect on 10 years since the UK voted to leave the EU
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Yasmin Alibhai Brown @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
My email account unlocked!
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Yasmin Alibhai Brown @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Has anyone out there had their email accounts locked by @virginmedia? They did this 8 days ago. No reason given. Promises made. No change. Panicking.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
BREAKING: Indigenous white people commit riot and arson. Incompetent indigenous white police fire water cannon. Indigenous white politicians who fucked up our economy discuss "legitimate concerns" in lying newspapers owned by indigenous white tax evaders. Immigrants somehow remain the problem.
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John Crowther @john-crowther7bsky.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Hats off to @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social dealing with constant interruptions from the right-wing, male panel members on Iain Dale's Cross Question show this evening @lbc.co.uk , including former GBN presenter Liam Halligan and former UKIP/Tory politician Lord Mackinlay @lbcwatchuk.bsky.social
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A Reform voter tells me: "[Farage] cares about working people. He will make this country great again.” Such devotion, such faith in one so unworthy. It does my head in.” You and so many of us @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social Disgusted by the man and the abject failure to hold him to account iPaper
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My View
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Farage's finances are deeply revealing
Reform UK leader has ushered in a new era of politics
In times to come, British politicians, historians and voters will try to figure out how, in the first quarter of the 21st century, Nigel Farage became one of the most
›powerful operators on these isles.
How did he lure and captivate so many? Why did they not question his fibs and postures?
This chap was born into a wealthy family, attended a private school, was a city trader, wears fine suits,
belongs to the most excuisive of London clubs, and socialises with millionaires and powerful elites.
But Martha, 65, a neighbour who worked for years as a shop assistant, and is a former Tory but now Reform voter, tells me: "He cares about working people. He will make this country great again." Such devotion, such faith in one so unworthy, It does my head in.
Farage gives off the appearance of a spiv - defined in most dictionaries as a flashy, shady dealer. He dresses ostentatiously and plays the political system. His well-practised grins and glasses of ale, his choreographed moments of patriotic fervour and emotionally-charged nationalism, and various
other manipulations have created an avatar. The real Mr Farage is a grubby, shameless distorter of truths, a dissembler who ducks accountability.
As the former Green leader, Caroline Lucas recently wrote about his part in getting the Brexit vote through: "There is a particular kind of audacity required to spend decades dismantling something then point to the rubble and declare it someone else's fault. Nigel Farage has that audacity in spades. He has built an entire political career on it."
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Yasmin Alibhai Brown @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The Epsom rape crime that never happened - but sparked a frenzy anyway - BBC News share.google/7UITEYbkfNEj...
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The Epsom rape crime that never happened - but sparked a frenzy anyway
Misinformation about an alleged rape in Epsom became a real-world storm, but we've been here before.
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Andrew Buncombe @andrewbuncombe.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
'The special relationship is now an abusive marriage': Excellent by @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/opinion/spec...
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The special relationship is now an abusive marriage
It's time to face the truth about Britain and the US
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Yasmin Alibhai Brown @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
We know what privatisation has done to the waterways. Now the Children's Commissioner warns profiteers are milking Children's homes. And failing the most vulnerable. Profiteering is a disease allowed to spread by our politicians. It destroys the body and soul of Britain.
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Yasmin Alibhai Brown @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Hereditary peers gone. But the debased peerage system is left intact. No party wants to change that. They're all in the game. My column inews.co.uk/opinion/i-ne...
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I never thought I'd side with Britain's poshest people, but they're being used
The only thing worse than the House of Lords is what would replace it
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Yasmin Alibhai Brown @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
How to process the demonisation of migrants by MPs of that heritage? Like the mini despot Shabana Mahmood. And Reform's Zia Yusef? Power saves them now. Not forever. My column inews.co.uk/opinion/grim...
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The grim irony of Labour’s anti-immigrant rabble rousers
Shabana Mahmood has morphed from a liberal into a mini-despot
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"They tell us it is to improve race relations and social cohesion, to placate implacable white “patriots” over and over, to create a happy, clappy, multiracial Britain. Say, do, fail, repeat." @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social
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The grim irony of Labour’s anti-immigrant rabble rousers
Shabana Mahmood has morphed from a liberal into a mini-despot
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LetteJ @lettej2205.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Your article "Face it: Britain's political class is corrupt" today in the I is spot on. I would add blood scandal,estate management fees on new housing estates, and flooding to the list of cover-ups.
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Amy @amzomac.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
An absolutely monumental WIN! 😭 Long live the resistance! FREE PALESTINE! ❤️🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
🔥 This is important. Please do have a read.
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Ministers’ Families in the IDF: is that why no prosecutions?
It has long been a scandal that British citizens could fight in a genocidal war machine and face no penalty.…
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Yasmin Alibhai Brown @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Hi Big thanks to all who have read and liked my columns. Please subscribe to I Newspaper. Read some of the best writers in the industry.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Heartbreaking from @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social on the very real damage Farage and Reform are doing to our country and shared future. “Brexit was the first, deep cut into that optimistic, multiracial Britain. What has followed was entirely predictable.” liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/424...
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Reform’s white nationalism will extinguish everything good about Britain
If they gain power people will realise – but far too late
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Graeme Tiffany @graemetiffany.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Maybe it's my age, but there's little I disagree with @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social
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Yasmin Alibhai Brown @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
For their own well-being, Thatcher cultists should avoid reading my opinion piece today on how the iron lady broke Britain. The rest, I hope will consider her legacy. inews.co.uk/opinion/marg...
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Margaret Thatcher: The pitiless PM who sold the country to get-rich predators
She destroyed our railways, water, and housing – and we're still paying for it
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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 23/12/2025
Opinion | As a journalist, I am duty bound to ask whether the conspicuous indifference is the result of Britain’s close links with Israel 🖋 @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social Read more: trib.al/lCADFTY
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Labour's treatment of hunger-striking protesters is a disgrace
British governments still exert illegitimate power to intimidate and subdue people
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Chris McGrath @christy21.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Meanwhile 257,000 British workers have emigrated and the number of medics arriving has halved. Mostly because all parties, except 💚🧡💛 are ramping up the anti-foreigner story. 😰 2/2
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Chris McGrath @christy21.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
A few days old now, but @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social is right. The CofE is almost alone fighting Tommy and his racist disciples with their all white agenda. Tories and Labour are shamefully increasing their anti ‘migrant’ rhetoric to win back voters lost to Reform. 1/2
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Yasmin Alibhai Brown @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Andrew is a useful distraction for the rip off royals who are busy enriching themselves, sacrificing nothing in these hard times my column inews.co.uk/opinion/andr...
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Gem&Molly ⓥ @gemandmoll.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I've now just read your article today in @theipaper.com - By cowering to enemies, BBC dismisses its backers. I bieve appeasement of the right-wing doesn't work. Labour are too timid. You should get another prize for this one!
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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 05/11/2025
Opinion | We are understandably fixated on faithless men, male violence, propaganda disseminated by hard men influencers and on rape and murder statistics. All that is real and disturbing. But it’s only part of the story 🖋 @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social Read more: trib.al/rS9J4uV
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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 22/10/2025
Opinion | White power once again exerts control over brown subjects. To the new colonial representatives, Palestinian lives and voices don’t really matter 🖋 @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social Read more: trib.al/uDQjbVf
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 28/10/2025
Almost time, 4th Nov 25 at 7pm, for the Bylines Network roundtable on "Hope Against Hate". Have you registered? 👇 Don't miss the opportunity of having a live discussion with great guests! @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @nafeez.bsky.social @nicklowles.bsky.social @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social
Bylines Network flyer of its webinar on the 4th November 2025 at 7pm listing the panellists
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Ben Dickenson @benjitoon.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This is going to be important and inspirational. Join @bylinesnetwork.co.uk and... @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @nafeez.bsky.social @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social @nicklowles.bsky.social Hope against authoritarianism. Truth against hate. Citizens for democracy. Book at: bit.ly/BylinesHope
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Select tickets – Hope against hate: how citizens and journalists can reclaim democracy – Zoom
Hope against hate: how citizens and journalists can reclaim democracy – Zoom, Tue 4 Nov 2025 - Book now for this special and important Bylines Network live event.
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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The Starmer Disaster - The recording of our seminar with @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social, Mark Perryman , @profafinlayson.bsky.social and me is now online and in every podcast app: culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/10/13/t....
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The Starmer Disaster
A recording of our online seminar with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Mark Perryman, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert, recorded October 8th 2025 We ask: How has it all gone so wrong for a government electe…
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rak @raksky.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Here's a 2014(!) James O'Brien clip with Farage, discussing Romanian neighbours. 🔗 Full interview, if you can stomach it: youtu.be/Z4Rq7avG234
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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 30/09/2025
Opinion | When Labour gets into power, minority supporters learn bitterly that their votes are useless and their concerns are ignorable 🖋 @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social Read more: trib.al/T8GWfqv
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rak @raksky.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
“You know what the difference is.” Here’s the source for the Farage quote that Yasmin Alibhai Brown @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social mentioned… on why his German wife was different to a hypothetical Romanian neighbour. 🚨 Just a reminder, this was *The Sun* calling out his racism.
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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 26/09/2025
The i Paper has been recognised for its commentators, political journalism and environmental reporting - including @kitty-donaldson.bsky.social @luciemheath.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social and @ianbirrell.bsky.social Read more: trib.al/Fg7Nwn2
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