Riots used to scare me – now I’m angry We do not fear them any more. And never will again August 7, 2024 6:00 am(Updated 6:02 am) We minorities have the power. And most of us are angry as hell (Photo: Andy Barton/Getty) I was there, pregnant, and marching against the National Front in Lewisham inContinue reading “Yasmin’s Eye on …. Riots used to scare me – now I’m angry”
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Yasmin’s Eye on …. Gaza The Unspoken Issue
Electioneering is full on. Campaigns, mess-ups, sharpened messages, and increasingly combative speeches, TV debates, emotive vox pops, leaflets and unending polls. Too much already, you think. But as the main parties flood our minds with words, two issues are purposefully avoided- Brexit and Gaza. Pro-Europeans have raised the former in the media and other publicContinue reading “Yasmin’s Eye on …. Gaza The Unspoken Issue”
Yasmin’s Eye on …. Hedge Fund Politics
Used to be that most elected women and men believed that politics was about serving the people and the nation. After their 2010 victory, pumped-up, brash Tories expunged that notion. They wanted power so they could serve themselves and their clients. Call it hedge-fund governance. It’s changed expectations and led to mass cynicism and apathy.Continue reading “Yasmin’s Eye on …. Hedge Fund Politics “
Yasmin’s Eye on …. Posh Boys Take Over. Again.
I heard the news, like everyone else, with disbelief. David Cameron, oops, Lord Cameron, is now Foreign Secretary. The new Lord was installed, as if by birthright. The appointments commission was bypassed; Lindsay Doyle, speaker of the house of commons, is vexed. Sunak and Cameron must think they’re above all that. Swanky people disdain rulesContinue reading “Yasmin’s Eye on …. Posh Boys Take Over. Again.”
Yasmin’s Eye on …. The BBC is failing the public with its deference to the Royals – Modes of fawning – Sarah Vine – and A conversation I had this week
The BBC is failing the public with its deference to the Royals Yet again we see Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and “non-working Royal”, outshining frontline Royals on the world stage. Outside the UK she is vastly more popular than any of the working Royals, a fact recently underlined by the huge success of her tourContinue reading “Yasmin’s Eye on …. The BBC is failing the public with its deference to the Royals – Modes of fawning – Sarah Vine – and A conversation I had this week”