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Nesrine Malik

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For a full year, the bodies have piled up in Sudan – and still the world looks away

One year ago today, Sudan descended into war. The toll so far is catastrophic. Thousands are dead, and millions are displaced, with hunger and disease...

15.04.2024 40

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Six months in, the war in Gaza has dramatically shifted – and Israel is running out of road

In Gaza, the six-month milestone has arrived, and with it a perceptible shift. Whatever amnesty the Israeli government was given in the wake of the...

07.04.2024 7

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Conspiracy, monetisation and weirdness: social media has become ungovernable

On TikTok, there is a short clip of what an AI voiceover claims is a supposed “ring glitch” in the video in which Princess of Wales reveals her...

01.04.2024 50

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As brutal war rages and famine looms, look at pictures of Gaza and keep saying: ‘this is not normal’

Cast your mind back to early 2022, more than two years ago now. Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was such a shock, such a break with decades of...

25.03.2024 100

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A faultline has opened in Keir Starmer’s pragmatic politics – and this time none of the usual fixes will work

Amid the fallout from last week’s chaos in the Commons, one question has gone largely unexplored: is Labour out of the woods on Gaza? Despite all...

26.02.2024 60

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When your food comes via a delivery app, the exploitation is baked right in

The working life of a delivery app rider is dictated by the tyranny of time. Time between deliveries, the time it takes to make a delivery, the time...

19.02.2024 90

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Israel’s assault on Gaza is exposing the holes in everything liberal politicians claim to believe

Something odd is happening. A sort of glitch or malfunction. Liberal politicians who refuse to call for a ceasefire in Gaza or halt support for...

12.02.2024 200

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In Gaza, there’s a war on women. Will the west really ignore it because they’re ‘not like us’?

Sometimes a disaster is so large that it obscures its own details. Behind the number of dead and displaced in Gaza, for women and girls the conflict...

05.02.2024 400

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An essentially conservative country? It’s a powerful myth that warps English politics

No matter what profound changes come about in England, one thing always seems to remain the same: the unshakable belief that it is simply a...

22.01.2024 50

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It’s not only Israel on trial. South Africa is testing the west’s claim to moral superiority

It was only a little over six hours of legal argument, but the genocide case brought by South Africa against Israel at the international court of...

15.01.2024 400

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Fears are rising of ‘regional escalation’ in the Middle East. But that wider war is already here

It may be a small detail, but it tells a big, clarifying story: the Biden administration did not appoint an ambassador to Cairo until March of last...

08.01.2024 40

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After a year of failed politics, we know we can’t rely on leaders. Luckily, we have ourselves

A new year column brings with it the unspoken obligation to strike some note of optimism and renewal. It’s a tradition, like a pagan ritual,...

01.01.2024 80

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What does it mean to erase a people – a nation, culture, identity? In Gaza, we are beginning to find out

I will start this column with a question for you, dear reader. What connects you with your country, and makes you feel it is yours? What gives you a...

18.12.2023 3

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Is TikTok brainwashing the kids? No, this is just an old moral panic in a new form

In a famous two-frame meme from The Simpsons, Principal Skinner asks himself: “Am I so out of touch?” “No,” he decides, with resolve....

11.12.2023 70

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First Dog on the Moon Cop28! No prizes for guessing how it is turning out

04.12.2023 80

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Neglect, deflect, then scapegoat those you’ve exploited: that’s what passes for UK immigration policy

The headline, now increasing in pitch, capital letters and exclamation marks, is that net migration is off the charts. It is soaring. It is at an...

04.12.2023 200

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The war in Gaza has been an intense lesson in western hypocrisy. It won’t be forgotten

The images of hostages and prisoners being reunited with their families are almost too hopeful to absorb. Even as Israeli authorities explicitly try...

27.11.2023 8

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Suella Braverman has proved that Islamophobia is never far from the surface in Britain

“Hate marchers” who are not interested in Gaza, but in asserting “the primacy by certain groups – particularly Islamists”. This is how...

13.11.2023 40

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Pro-Palestine rallies aren’t ‘hate marches’ – they’re an expression of solidarity, helplessness and frustration

As the streets fill with ever-increasing numbers of pro-Palestine supporters – and with a large protest planned in central London next weekend –...

06.11.2023 300

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Labour losing voters over Gaza matters – whether it hurts electorally or not

Cathy had voted Labour all her life. Then she heard an LBC interview with Keir Starmer. In it, he was asked if it was “appropriate” that Israel...

30.10.2023 100

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Guardian Opinion cartoon Ben Jennings on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza – cartoon

23.10.2023 50

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As Gaza is bombed and starved, the Arab world is watching – and it’s angry

A few years after the end of Lebanon’s civil war, when the country seemed like one that had buried its past of conflict for ever, I heard an...

22.10.2023 6

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Is this Labour party progressive at heart, or Tory lite? We’ll find out this week

T he cost of living crisis has been happening for so long now, it can no longer really be classed as a “crisis”. Crisis implies urgency,...

08.10.2023 3

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In one vulgar swoop, Suella Braverman has humiliated every single migrant in the UK

E ven by this government’s standards, last week was bleak and this one, as the Tory conference gets under way, promises to be no less dispiriting....

02.10.2023 200

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Are you single or in a ‘hard-working family’? Your answer counts for a lot

B eing single today is less a description of your relationship status and more an economic state. Of course, being single was never easy: couples can...

25.09.2023 5

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It’s the ‘great noticing’, as rightwingers accept that ‘Britain is broken’. But their fixes won’t make it any better

G irl Who Boys Can’t Hear was a recurring character who featured on The Fast Show. She is a woman in the company of men who raises an intelligent...

17.09.2023 2

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Megacities in the desert: the human cost of Egypt and Saudi Arabia’s bold new projects

S pread over an area almost 7km (4 miles) long, Cairo’s Necropolis is a sprawling district of tombs, mausoleums, mosques and courtyards. Also known...

11.09.2023 10

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