Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is the award-winning journalist who has spent decades telling Britain uncomfortable truths about itself. Forced out of Uganda in 1972 as a young woman, she became the first regular columnist of colour on a national British newspaper, and the first Muslim woman in that role. She has campaigned against forced marriage and female genital mutilation, challenged what she called the settled orthodoxy of multiculturalism, and defended political correctness.

Her books include Exotic England, In Defence of Political Correctness and Ladies Who Punch, as well as No Place Like Home, her account of life as a twice-displaced immigrant. She won the Orwell Prize for journalism in 2002,  was National Press Awards Columnist of the Year in 2017, and returned her MBE to the Queen in protest against British involvement in the Iraq War.