Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Leading journalist and commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown takes a fresh look at ‘Englishness’. Is it possible to create a new national consensus on ‘Englishness’, one not based on religion but on the shared values of all the different traditions that make up the English population?

Why is it that some children of parents who settled in England by choice or who sought refuge in this country are attracted by the ideology of the so-called Islamic State. And what is the role being played by social media in turning hearts and minds? What will it mean to be English in 20 years?

Alibhai-Brown is one of the UK’s leading commentators on race, multiculturalism and human rights. She is an award-winning journalist who writes for national newspapers and is often seen and heard on television and radio. She won the George Orwell Prize for political journalism in 2002 and the Emma Award for journalism in 2004. Alibhai-Brown is author of Exotic England: The Making of a Curious Nation, No Place Like Home, the acclaimed The Settlers’ Cookbook: A Memoir of Migration, Love and Food and Who Do We Think Are? Imagining the New Britain.

Supported by Ian and Carol Sellars.