1. Is she widely cited by peers or successors? No. She's not cited once in any academic literature, or as an authority on any significant topic in any mainstream publication.
2. Has she originated a significant new concept, theory, or technique? No.
3. Has she created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work? No.
4. Has her work/s: (a) become a significant monument, (b) been a substantial part of a significant exhibition, (c) won significant critical attention, or (d) been represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums. No.
There is no debate to be had.
Wikipedia is not a summary of everything that's ever been published in English print and online media. It's an encyclopedia.
Obvious speedy keep. Suggesting deletion of an obviously significant media figure like Sarkar is so obviously ridiculous that I have to question whether this nomination is made in good faith. The only part of the nomination that is on point is the bit where it says "There is no debate to be had" which is obviously correct but obviously not in the way that the nominator intends. --DanielRigal (talk) 19:34, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: I've fixed the Google links at the top of this page and the results are now as you might expect: 2,420 hits in Google News and so on. Ironically, these hit counts are high, in part, because her enemies just can't stop writing stuff about her. --DanielRigal (talk) 19:47, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep, as anticipated. I don't think there's been a Question Time panellist in the last 20 years who's been non-notable, because the BBC do a good job of making sure that the people who appear represent some major demographic of the UK in some way. Significant role as a journalist. Significant coverage over the Birchill topic, the "literally a communist" remark and lots of bits and pieces elsewhere. Article as it stands shows notability three times over but there's plenty more coverage out there if someone wants to improve it. The nominator has failed to grasp how our notability policies work: WP:BASIC says that People who meet the basic criteria may be considered notable without meeting the additional criteria below, so any failure of WP:AUTHOR would be necessary but not sufficient for non-notability—if the user had actually asked then they would have cleared up this misconception. The nominator, who doesn't appear to have much history editing here, has misjudged the notability standards on Wikipedia for a lot higher than what they are. People accept any number of mistakes if you're polite and try to learn, but to do that you have to accept that you might be wrong. — Bilorv (talk) 20:02, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This isn't a vote. It's a matter of policy. She does not meet the criteria as set out in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people)#Creative_professionals. Either the criteria needs changing, or we just allow a tyranny of a majority (aka "the rabble") to run roughshod over Wikipedia's founding principles and the whole concept of what an online encylopedia is. It is not news. It is not a repository for gossip and scandal and Twitter disputes. If Ash Sarkar is to be included, then millions of journalists and activists around the world out to be included. That's not encyclopedic. TomReagan90 (talk) 20:16, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@TomReagan90: It doesn't matter if she meets those criteria: "People are likely to be notable if they meet any of the following standards. Failure to meet these criteria is not conclusive proof that a subject should not be included". The actual standard she needs to meet is WP:N which she clearly does. Sam Walton (talk) 20:36, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - It's no good just simply typing "The actual standard she needs to meet is WP:N which she clearly does." That is not a meaningful argument. You need to be specific, as WP:N unfortunately isn't. Is it seriously your contention that anyone who is written about in, say, The Times or Teen Vogue meets WP:N? Is that "Significant coverage"? Do you have any idea how many millions of people that would include if our threshold was so low? How on earth is this article encyclopedic. I.e. What is anyone supposed to learn from this Bio entry? She has made no original, significant contribution to political commentary, academic debate, nor has she produced any significant works of art. These kinds of articles reduce Wikipedia to a very Twitter/Tabloid mismash of gossip rag and vanity self-promotion. This person's "notability" derived from an incident on a morning chat show (there'd be millions of those guests to add too) in which she called Piers Morgan an idiot and declared herself a "literal communist". What is encyclopedic about that? WP:SUSTAINED"Brief bursts of news coverage may not sufficiently demonstrate notability. However, sustained coverage is an indicator of notability, as described by notability of events. New organizations and future events might pass WP:GNG, but lack sufficient coverage to satisfy WP:NOTNEWSPAPER, and these must still also satisfy WP:NOTPROMOTION." Why can't you just be specific? Why can't you agree to maintain at least some basic standards of academic rigor? If the Encyclopedia Britannica was expanded to include 5 million articles, ask yourself, do you honestly believe this would or should be one of them? TomReagan90 (talk) 21:39, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion, Wikipedia is not engaged in Scandal mongering, Wikipedia is not a newspaper (WP:EXCESSDETAIL) to be filled with trivial content (such as, where Ash Sarkar went to school), Wikipedia is not a "Who's who. Even when an event is notable, individuals involved in it may not be. Unless news coverage of an individual goes beyond the context of a single event, our coverage of that individual should be limited to the article about that event, in proportion to their importance to the overall topic," and Wikipedia is not a democracy, "Polling is not a substitute for discussion". TomReagan90 (talk) 21:39, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]