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[[Yasmin Alibhai-Brown]] likes to think of herself as ‘plain-speaking’ and controversial’.  She is a writer for [[The Independent]] and the [[Evening Standard]], and is Senior Researcher at the [[Foreign Policy Centre]] (patron [[Tony Blair]]) and was previously Research Fellow with the [[IPPR]] which published her ‘True Colours’ on the role of government on racial attitudes. Tony Blair launched the book in March 1999.<ref>Ref needed</ref> Supposedly she has an ‘analytical eye for systematic abuses of power’ but is closely networked within New Labour circles.<ref>Ref needed</ref>  In the wake of the [[Steven Lawrence]] campaign she served on the [[Home Office Race Forum]].  At the FPC she opposed devolution, seemingly thinking the worst of political culture in Scotland and Wales, which she evidently felt well qualified to comment upon:
 
 
:“Yasmin headed the Centre's Global Britons programme and could be seen across the country instigating debate over the devolution process: a process she opposed as she felt that the establishment of regional governments in Scotland and Wales would unleash a dangerous form of nationalism that would further exclude Britain's ethnic minorities.” [http://people.africadatabase.org/en/profile/14824.html]
 
 
She accepted and MBE in 2001, then, after a process which took two years she gave it back. She is a member of the [[British American Project]]. She is also Vice President of the [[United Nations Association, UK]].  She has the writing ability to tailor her stuff to the buyer. In a Time (below) article she wrote:
 
 
:“The police do have to stop and search our men and boys. It’s deeply upsetting, but this is the fate forced on us by the fanatics. To be honest, I too am nervous on public transport around males who look like members of my family or my close Asian or Arab friends. I accept this discrimination. I have to, in the interests of national security...  I don't believe there is a simple causal connection between the Iraq occupation and the London bombs.”
 
[http://www.time.com/time/europe/html/050815/terror/viewpoint.html]
 
 
Quite a statement for someone with a keen eye for systematic abuses of power.
 
 
She is also part of a similar venture to EI with Bob Geldof's 'Know Comment', part of his Ten Alps business (a PR, Broadcast and Television company, whose 2003 client list included BP, JP Morgan, Ford, The UK Foreign Office and Ministery of Defence, EMI, Disney and David Cameron). [http://www.tenalps.com/shpx_common/src-v0.3.1-tenalps/src/preview.php?id=7268]
 

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whose current client list includes BP, JP Morgan, Ford, The UK Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence, EMI, Disney and David Cameron).

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