The award-winning Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is one of the country’s most famous left wing commentators. She has been working in newspapers and on television for decades and is fearless in expressing her sometimes polarising views. Here she reflects on a period of unprecedented fragmentation in British politics, gives her verdict on Keir Starmer’s Labour government, and discusses international affairs from Trump’s America to Netanyahu’s Israel and beyond. She is in conversation with journalist and national broadcaster, Matthew Stadlen.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a weekly columnist for the I newspaper and has written for the Daily Mirror, Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, Daily Mail, New York Times, Time Magazine and other publications. Her awards include the Orwell prize for political writing, the National Press Awards columnist of the year prize and the Society of Editors award.

Her recent books include Refusing the Veil, Exotic England about England’s infatuation with the east, In Defence of Political Correctness and Ladies Who Punch. She has twice been voted the 10th most influential Asian in Britain.