Yasmin Alibah-Brown she's a strange one. I didn't see Matthew Wright this morning, I did catch YAB on Monday though when not surprisingly she stated that she was not a MT fan, so she's probably cranked her responses up a notch or two since then as the relentless coverage has rolled on. I think she can write wonderfully well and be really even handed, but at times she displays quite racist and sexist opinions. There's a reasonably well known interview she did with Richard Bacon that is on Youtube, when he was standing in for Matthew Wright and she said something along the lines of "I wish all you white middle class men would just disappear and then we could step up" this is not verbatim, but I gather the gist of what she was saying was that she thought there were too many white middle class men in key positions, which of course is undoubtedly true. Nevertheless, the way she voiced that opinion caused Richard Bacon to respond with something like "are you allowed to say that?"
When I see her on Matthew Wright I don't think she comes over well, she goes into sniffy mode all too often and adjusts her cardigan, as if there is a chill wind, when an opinion opposite to the one she holds is expressed. I've read quite a lot of her articles in the Independent and again on occasions she puts forward some chippy points of view, the one that comes to mind is her complaining about the current fashion for nude shoes not matching darker skin tones!
I accept that MT was not everyone's cup of tea but I hate all this "dancing on her grave" attitude, although the coverage is unremitting. I don't think anyone on the left does their cause any good spitting out that sort of vitriol, I thought Ed Milliband's speech was very gracious.
You'll get Gransnet blacklisted....
for me won't you. 
