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Nesrine MalikThe Guardian |
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
In a famous two-frame meme from The Simpsons, Principal Skinner asks himself: “Am I so out of touch?” “No,” he decides, with resolve....
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...
The images of hostages and prisoners being reunited with their families are almost too hopeful to absorb. Even as Israeli authorities explicitly try...
“Hate marchers” who are not interested in Gaza, but in asserting “the primacy by certain groups – particularly Islamists”. This is how...
As the streets fill with ever-increasing numbers of pro-Palestine supporters – and with a large protest planned in central London next weekend –...
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
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...