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- Birth nameYasmin Damji
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown was born on December 10, 1949 in Uganda. She is an actress, known for A Lesson, The Sundays (1998) and The Night Motown Sang for Sickle Cell Anaemia (2020). She has been married to Colin Brown since 1990. They have one child. She was previously married to Shiraz Alibhai.
- SpousesColin Brown(1990 - present) (1 child)Shiraz Alibhai(1972 - 1990) (divorced, 1 child)
- She is one of Britain's most prominent left-wing commentators, a Ugandan-born journalist and broadcaster, resident in Britain since 1972. She has contributed to several national newspapers including The Guardian, The New Statesman and The Independent.
- She was awarded an M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 2001 New Year's Honors List for her services to journalism, but returned it as a protest against the new empire in Iraq and a growing republicanism in 2003.
- Ealing, London, England
- David Hockney, whose pictures I absolutely love but whose personality is different.
- [on Boris Johnson] He's an ugly man inside and out.
- [writing in 2006] I was stupid once and allowed myself to accept an MBE, partly to please my mum, who was always afraid that my big mouth would get us deported from here, as we were from Uganda. Then the poet Benjamin Zephaniah shamed me live on Channel 4 news, just as the Iraq war was building up and my republicanism was solidifying. I returned the lovely object and have had to put up with scorn ever since, some deserved. But I now speak with the zeal of a convert. The Honours system sucks and we should start again, devise a fair and independent new method to annually acclaim exceptional citizens for their contribution to the nation, not to overweening political parties or the semi-skilled, dysfunctional Windsors.
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