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Sonia Sodha
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Columnist & broadcaster. Presenting for BBC Radio 4, news reviews for This Morning & Sky News. Highly commended/shortlisted Society of Editors' Commentator of the Year 2023 & 2024.
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Why does Starmer oppose the death penalty on basis mistakes are made, but not assisted dying? Does he really believe vulnerable people won't get sucked into a medically-assisted suicide they shouldn't be able to consent to?

My column @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
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November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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A new wave of politicians are engaged in open race-baiting. But the appetite for hatred is more limited than they imagine

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Drunk on the Kool-Aid of hate
A new wave of politicians are engaged in open race-baiting. But the appetite for hatred is more limited than they imagine
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November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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My column for this week's @thenewworldmag.bsky.social is on what lies behind the rise of racism in politics - some of it is instrumental, but some of it is politicians refracting very online tropes into mainstream discourse.

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Drunk on the Kool-Aid of hate
A new wave of politicians are engaged in open race-baiting. But the appetite for hatred is more limited than they imagine
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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October 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Virginia Giuffre's story is so shocking, yet familiar: the same story of vulnerable girls getting abused again & again by powerful men with the Royal Family far too slow to sanction Andrew Windsor.

My column for this week's
@thenewworldmag.bsky.social

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Prince Andrew and an unforgivable secret
Virginia Giuffre is dead, and a royal is disgraced. But time after time, powerful men keep escaping real justice
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October 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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October 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I said this was a strategic error last week and @sonia-sodha.bsky.social does an excellent job explaining why. www.thenewworld.co.uk/sonia-sodha-...
Starmer has fallen into Farage’s trap
The PM was right to call Reform’s leave to remain policy racist – but he will regret it
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October 9, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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My column in today's Times is about the home secretary's proposals to give police more powers to limit repeat protests. I'm sympathetic, but there are risks... but maybe the biggest issue is there's no legislative fix to rising levels of antisemitism.

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Think twice before giving police more powers
Home secretary wants to restrict hateful Gaza protests but that won’t make us more tolerant
www.thetimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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October 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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If Reform fail in government, Farage could end up being a gateway drug to Tommy Robinson and the far right. My column in this week's @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

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How Tommy Robinson could become PM
Britain’s crises give the far right fertile ground - and when Reform fails too, he will take advantage
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September 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Campaigners are increasingly trying to emotionally blackmail people into using their preferred - inaccurate - euphemisms in debates like assisted dying and gender and sex. It should be resisted because they cover up real social harms.

My column in today's Times

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Beware the euphemisms over assisted suicide
As with trans ideology, we should resist being bullied into using ‘kind’ but misleading language
www.thetimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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My column for this week’s @thenewworldmag.bsky.social is about the chilling prospect of a world with artificial wombs

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The chilling future of pregnancy without women
Stories about a Chinese ‘artificial womb’ seem more science fiction than fact – but reveal uncomfortable truths about the ethics of reproduction
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August 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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It's not just Farage who's borrowed from the populist playbook - on tax, Labour has too, and now it's paying the price. My column in today's Times.

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Labour sold false promises just like Farage
Many of the party’s woes are down to its unrealistic election pledges, which came straight out of the populist playbook
www.thetimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Fully agree. In 2018 I raised concerns about the APPG definition. It was implied I'm an Islamophobe for disagreeing with their definition! What's depressing with Gov's current political attempt is how it will do little to address growing anti-Muslim hatred.

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August 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Adopting expansive definitions of Islamophobia and antisemitism is highly problematic - it risks encouraging institutions to unlawfully curb legitimate speech and distracts from the hard work of actually reducing these forms of bigotry.

My column in today’s Times

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Hate-crime definitions risk making things worse
Trying to codify Islamophobia and antisemitism is well intentioned but it doesn’t solve the problem and can curb debate
www.thetimes.com
August 23, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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My column for the Express on the disgusting witch burning to which NHS Fife has subjected Sandie Peggie to distract from their own unlawful conduct. Yes, people who share racist jokes in private what’s app groups of ppl they holiday with have employment rights too.

www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2089...
'NHS bosses must be held accountable for witch-burning over female spaces'
A chilling message is being sent in what smacks of an arrogant culture war
www.express.co.uk
July 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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A female nurse in Scotland became the focus of a witch hunt that shows how Britain’s institutions have become overcome by an elite ideology

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Sandie Peggie and the dangers of gender groupthink
A female nurse in Scotland became the focus of a witch hunt that shows how Britain’s institutions have become overcome by an elite ideology
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July 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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The erosion of access to trial by jury may well undermine the rule of law even more than the sustained underfunding of the justice system.

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Why justice needs juries
A new proposal to restrict the use of trial by jury could fundamentally undermine the justice system
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July 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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A new cross-party commission has been created to look at the problems of social cohesion in Britain. But can it confront the most controversial issue of them all?

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Is this the answer to the immigration question?
A new cross-party commission has been created to look at the problems of social cohesion in Britain. But can it confront the most controversial issue of them all?
www.thenewworld.co.uk
July 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The government failed to level with the public about the depths of Britain’s problems. It will come back to bite them, writes @sonia-sodha.bsky.social
The high price of Labour’s honesty deficit
The government failed to level with the public about the depths of Britain’s problems. It will come back to bite them
www.thenewworld.co.uk
June 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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The over-reaction to Blair's net zero intervention shows the climate debate risks curdling into net zero as a moral good v populist scapegoating of climate policies. An we need to avoid that.

My column for The New World
@theneweuropean.bsky.social

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Fears are not enough: the hard sell of net zero
A populist pushback is fuelled by voter scepticism that our global leaders can ever crack the climate crisis
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June 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Through a mix of complacency and defensiveness, UK universities have made themselves vulnerable to populist assault. They should get their house in order now. My column in today's @thetimes.com

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UK universities are ripe for a populist assault
Trump v Harvard will set a tone — and British institutions have made themselves vulnerable
www.thetimes.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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As organisations like Unison flout the Supreme Court ruling on sex & gender, leaders can’t continue to hide behind judges and regulators. They need to explain to detractors why protecting women’s rights is so important. Including Keir Starmer

My column in the Times

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Unions and bosses are flouting trans ruling
Implementing the Supreme Court’s judgment that ‘woman’ means female requires Keir Starmer to speak up for the law
www.thetimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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On the way home from recording Question Time. Great show for you this evening - including me getting selfie-shamed for taking this photo by an audience member 😂. Tune in at 1105pm on BBC1!
May 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I wrote this about Labour's electoral problems last November. Voters quite rightly don't like politicians who over-promise & under-deliver. And Labour told them if you vote for us everything will get magically better. It's a breeding ground for populism.

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Voters must learn to accept that Britain’s challenges are too big to solve straight away | Sonia Sodha
Labour has got off to a shaky start in government. It’s time it told the truth about the state we’re in
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May 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM