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Nesrine Malik

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Behind Trump’s victory lies a cold reality: liberals have no answers for a modern age in crisis

The most useful lesson of growing up under a dictatorship is that dictatorships are never absolute. Sometimes they are even democracies – ones that...

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One thing I’m sure of: Harris ignored voters’ anger over Gaza, and it cost the Democrats dear

I would be sceptical of post-election analyses in the wake of what is seen as a shock result. For both sides, voting patterns at this point are a sort...

11.11.2024 100

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We’re supposed to ‘put politics aside’ to celebrate Kemi Badenoch – but how can we?

So here we are. Kemi Badenoch is the leader of the Conservative party. That’s another couple of firsts that the Tories have beaten Labour to. So...

04.11.2024 100

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The lesson of Israel’s unfathomably cruel war: ours is still a world where might is right

More than a year into Israel’s war in Gaza, it is hard to talk of “escalation”. Because to isolate single moments of military escalation, such...

28.10.2024 200

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There’s an election looming and the government’s messaging is a shambles. It’s time to SAVE ALBO – from himself

07.10.2024 30

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I wish you could see the living nightmare in Palestine. But how much more must we see before something is done?

I began to write this column last week in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. I started it several times, both on the page and in my head, as I...

07.10.2024 100

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With Gaza in ruins and Lebanon under siege, what defence remains for Israel’s actions?

A common defence of Israel’s belligerence, both within the Palestinian territories and in the wider region, is the claim that it must act in this...

30.09.2024 200

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The cause of anti-racism is turned on its head when we’re debating coconuts in court

What do you think of when you hear the words “racially aggravated public order offence”? Someone being called the N-word or P-word, perhaps? An...

16.09.2024 30

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A Britain proud of its present and realistic about its past is taking shape: with the angry right trailing behind

Once again the gap between politics and media, on one hand, and the general public, on the other, continues to be revealed in its scale. Survey after...

09.09.2024 90

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The right’s obsession with childless women isn’t just about ideology: it’s essential to the capitalist machine

A woman without biological children is running for high political office, and so naturally that quality will at some point be used against her. Kamala...

02.09.2024 300

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‘Brat’ Kamala or ‘dragon mother’ Pelosi? This meme machine is a risky strategy in a high-stakes election

If you’re not across much of popular culture, the US election may require some interpretation. The Democratic National Convention has been an...

26.08.2024 20

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After the riots, Keir Starmer should tell us the truth about our country. This is why he won’t

Far-right thuggery. Marauding mobs. The prime minister’s descriptions of those who brought one of the worst episodes of violence on to the...

19.08.2024 20

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We will all lose our humanity if we let the war in Gaza become the new normal

On Wednesday, Benjamin Netanyahu received a standing ovation after his speech to US Congress. It was a moment that seemed to usher in a new phase of...

29.07.2024 200

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Hidden behind the celebration of Labour’s ‘landslide’ win is a depressing disfranchisement

It’s weird isn’t it, this bit? That period right after a new government has taken over with its all-new faces and fresh starts. The imperative to...

15.07.2024 100

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Pro-Palestine votes aren’t ‘sectarian’. Dismissing them would be a dangerous mistake for Labour

It’s always telling, which votes are considered valid and which aren’t. Which ones are “tactical”, which express “legitimate concerns” and...

08.07.2024 60

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The tragic parable of Rishi Sunak: driven by success at all costs, then undone by his own myth-making

In Nairobi’s industrial South B district stands the Highway secondary school, alma mater of Rishi Sunak’s father. It was established for Asian...

01.07.2024 20

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Will Gaza affect the election? In Ilford, I saw the ways it already has

Last weekend I attended Eid weekend in Ilford, east London, and the festivities were festooned with Palestine insignia. Some children had Palestine...

24.06.2024 60

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The downfall of the Tories may be predictable, but it can still feel promising

With the result by all measures a foregone conclusion, this general election campaign is less a contest and more a long coronation for one party, and...

17.06.2024 10

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There’s a huge, Brexit-shaped hole in this election – that’s why there’s such an air of unreality about it

Remember Brexit? For a topic that dominated several years of British political life after 2016, and the last general election, its near-total absence...

10.06.2024 200

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Starmer v Sunak: who came out top in the first leaders’ debate? Our panel’s verdict

The debate format was poorly thought out. How can anything of substance be said in 45-second answers? On the questions that required longer responses...

05.06.2024 20

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Starmer? Sunak? Millions know they are different but still feel alienated. Ignore that at your peril

Elections come with their own logic, a sort of sports analysis. It’s a time that doesn’t naturally lend itself to discussing events or agendas in...

03.06.2024 60

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In dismissing calls for Netanyahu’s arrest, the west is undermining its own world order

Since its inception, the international criminal court (ICC) has charged 50 people, 47 of whom were African. Its investigations have also been...

27.05.2024 200

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The Black Lives Matter era is over. It taught us the limits of diversity for diversity’s sake

If 2020 was the year that Black Lives Matter went mainstream, 2024 was the year it died. Quietly, without even the customary whimper, the trappings of...

20.05.2024 80

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Cries of defiance are all Palestinians and their supporters have left to keep hope alive

In 1988, the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani, the most celebrated Arab poet of the modern era, wrote The Trilogy of the Children of the Stones. The poem was...

13.05.2024 100

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Don’t let the sound and fury over Gaza protests drown out what the students are saying

On a hot day last week, the pavements outside Columbia University were heaving. About 200 protesters were gathered, making a noise that was bigger...

06.05.2024 100

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Ravaged by austerity, chastened by Brexit: how can Britain have influence abroad when it’s broken at home?

Deciding on what the UK’s place in the world should be has been like watching politicians spin a wheel. Then spinning it again when the option they...

22.04.2024 100

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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 90

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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 50

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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 60

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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 100

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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 200

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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 300

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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 10

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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 100

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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 100

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