November 30
2003
A tame battle
» Posted on November 30, 2003 01:53 AM » Category: General
Sorry to disappoint, but it was a rather tame programme with my dear friend, Yasmin. Anyway, if you should be so minded, here's the link (thanks to 'DC', one of my commenters below).

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Yeah, you were rubbish Stephen. You should have pointed out that YAB should be pleased racism exists in this country otherwise she'd be out of a job. Along with the fatuous, badly-informed, ill-read Gary Younge, she does more to set back the cause of race relations than most with her knackered rhetoric and hazy reasoning. It's a shame too when Monica Ali, Hari Kunzu and Zadie Smith are taking contemporary literature in new, exciting directions, YAB and other commentators seem determined to stay where they started off 20 years ago with the same old arguments. Down with her, I say, and up with Paul Gilroy!

Stated by: suede on December 2, 2003 12:06 PM

I think we should have a Top Ten YAB Moments poll.

My favourite was when a leaked Home Office memo came up with figures saying many British cities will be majority Asian or Black by 2020 or something. YAB's comment in The Observer: "The Empire strikes back!" I'm surprised the BNP didn't put that one up on their web site.

She was wheeled out to run through the memo on the Today programme the following morning for a head-to-head with Normo Tebbs. She walked straight into a Tebbit ambush, as he started out by saying that assimilation, cultural tolerance etc would take care of the race issue, which left YAB purring the "I never thought I'd agree with Lord Tebbit" line that always presages disaster. Sure enough, he piled in by accusing her ilk of doing their best to increase social, cultural divisions etc. He also feigned not to know who she was - a cheap bait that anyone else would have avoided rising to. Not YAB.

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