48 Quotes by Ash Sarkar

Immigration has tremendously changed the fabric of this country. Immigration is what built our NHS, when Britain invited people from the Commonwealth, from nations it had formerly colonized, in order to rebuild this country after the ravages of the Second World War.

I mean, the thing is, is that Britain has got a great tradition of irreverent political satire.

Let me be clear: I recognise the necessity of tackling antisemitism in the Labour party head-on.

International Women's Day, if it is to claim any kind of political relevance, has to reject ladies' Christmas consumerism and lowest-common-denominator universalism. Look beyond the pink beer and pyjamas; as feminists we need to be concerned with payslips and passports.

Ezra Pound was a pioneer of the most exciting aesthetic movement of the 20th century.

The idea of the NHS took root in the political imagination less as an example of social entitlement's victory over private provision, and more as the embodiment of brand Britain.

No one but the ruling class wins in a culture war.

Offering a politician's non-apology that accepts everything but responsibility isn't the same as accountability.

My great-great-aunt was a terrorist. I'm not talking about the sense in which the pacifist Mahatma Gandhi was branded a terrorist by the British parliament in 1932: Pritilata Waddedar was an active participant in armed struggle against the British state. She supplied explosives. She fired a gun. And I'm proud of it.