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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s column from Monday’s Independent expresses stereotypes that I can only call racist. Ostensibly it is a column about the “eat local food” movement, but Yasmin draws conclusions that she applies to all “indigenous Britons”.

One example of a Yasmin statement: The country can’t stomach any more foreignness and wants old simplicities back again. Applying that sentiment to the whole population is no more acceptable than “all black people are stupid” or “the Irish are a race of bogtrotting terrorists”.

Time to stop, Yasmin.

There’s been a distinct whiff of the final stages of the Book of Revelations around Westminster this week, with the Gord forced to make expensive concessions to ensure the success of the Finance Bill, widespread criticism over the comrades’ campaigning tactics in Crewe and Nantwitch, and an outbreak of bitchslapping between a Cabinet Minister and a newly ennobled Awkward Squad member. In other news, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill continues its interminable Parliamentary progress as “Mad” Nad Dorries accidentally causes a hands-across-the-water alliance between bloggers from the feminist movement, the libertarian right, the museli knitting liberals, and the Labour left. And adding a touch of farce to the proceedings was Caroline Flint who learned - like Jacqui Smith before her, albeit in a different context - that it’s best to keep one’s assets under wraps at all times, and we all got treated to faaaaaaar more information than we ever wanted to about the horizontal jogging antics of the Blairs. That’s right folks, prepare to scrub your mind’s eye. With BLEACH.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s column from Monday’s Independent expresses stereotypes that I can only call racist. Ostensibly it is a column about the “eat local food” movement, but Yasmin draws conclusions that she applies to all “indigenous Britons”.

One example of a Yasmin statement: The country can’t stomach any more foreignness and wants old simplicities back again. Applying that sentiment to the whole population is no more acceptable than “all black people are stupid” or “the Irish are a race of bogtrotting terrorists”.

Time to stop, Yasmin.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s column from Monday’s Independent expresses stereotypes that I can only call racist. Ostensibly it is a column about the “eat local food” movement, but Yasmin draws conclusions that she applies to all “indigenous Britons”.

One example of a Yasmin statement: The country can’t stomach any more foreignness and wants old simplicities back again. Applying that sentiment to the whole population is no more acceptable than “all black people are stupid” or “the Irish are a race of bogtrotting terrorists”.

Time to stop, Yasmin.

This week we have a special “link blog” Senedd Circular, as Matt has been rounding up the daffodils earlier and Miss Wagstaff had a night on the tiles (allegedly). So this is a “Matt” roundup.

This post may well ruin your Saturday breakfast, and it is shocking. The article highlights some of the physical violence used by those working for Mr Mugabe and his friends in their campaign to retain power in Zimbabwe. Not pleasant - but neither is Zanu PF’s campaign.

A cartoon from Indexed.

A cartoon from Indexed.