Kenan Malik

Thank you

Violent crime is at a low, yet people’s experiences tell a different story | The Observer

“Immigration status becomes significant when you’re a monster but not when you’re a hero.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Photo of two birds flying over the water towards Orkney

Sunday photo

Flying to Orkney (taken from the ferry)

It’s symbolic of a wider set of concerns, particularly of a world over which they seem to have little control. The same, I think is true of violent crime. 2/

I agree with much of this. Polls show, with immigration for example, that there can be a large gap between how people don’t see it as an issue impacting their own life but do see it as a major issue for the nation. 1/

Soul Music - I Say a Little Prayer for You - BBC Sounds Stories about the Burt Bacharach classic.

I had not realised the roots of “I Say a Little Prayer for You” in the Vietnam War: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Violent crime is at a low, yet people’s experiences tell a different story | The Observer

“The debate about crime… has become a lightning rod that, like the immigration debate, captures a wider set of anxieties about a wider set of failures of policymaking and statecraft.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Thanks for putting me in the list

Abstract photo of reflections in the Regents Canal

Thursday photo

Reflections (in the Regents Canal, near King's Cross)

In the mad world in which opposing swastika graffiti makes you a Zionist.

Photo of Manhattan at night

Sunday photo

Manhattan in black and white

Privatisation has made a Dad’s Army of the state The market-oriented approach has left services hollowed out while generating huge profits for private companies

“A system that has generated vast profits for private corporations while undermining the decision-making capacity of the state and leaving unheeded the aspirations of ordinary people.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Expelling legal migrants is a move straight from the Idi ... Katie Lam’s plan for expulsions opens the door to curtailing the rights of us all

“Such is the degradation of political and moral thinking wrought by the immigration debate that the brazen overturning of democratic norms is regarded as ‘sensible’ and critics dismissed as ‘hysterical’.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Kenan Malik Photo credit Tom Trevatt Photography

And now I am off to Sheffield @otsfestival.bsky.social‬ to talk race, class and history (and my book *Not So Black and White*) with Sunjeev Sahota offtheshelf.org.uk/events/not-s...

Without a two-state solution or single state with equal r... Both sides in the conflict are entrenched in their unwillingness to cede ground to the other

“The most intractable problem is that neither of the two main solutions to the conflict – the creation of two states for Jews and Palestinians or a single, secular democratic state for both – is currently viable.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Thanks

Thanks

Photo of a half-buried boat at Talmine, north of Scotland

Sunday photo

Carcass. The skeletal remains of a half-buried boat at Talmine, the Kyle of Tongue, Sutherland

Kenan Malik Photo credit Tom Trevatt Photography

And next Sunday, I’m off to Sheffield ‪@otsfestival.bsky.social‬ in conversation with the wonderful Sunjeev Sahota, talking about race, class and history offtheshelf.org.uk/events/not-s...

It’s not opera that’s elitist but the idea that art is to... The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book

“Hidden here is the assumption that ordinary people are unable to grasp anything challenging... It is a wretchedly patronising claim imposed upon working class people by middle-class gatekeepers who define what is ‘relevant’.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

NOT SO BLACK AND WHITE . Here are details of my new book, Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics, bublished by Hurst and available from the usual places. In Britain: Bookshop,…

Yes, they would. And I tackle that issue at length in my book *Not So Black and White* kenanmalik.com/2022/04/13/n...

Sunday photo

Bird flies into a Rothko
(taken on the Adriatic coast near Dubrovnik)

Liberalism has betrayed the working class, but illiberali... If we fail to uphold equality and democracy, where will our society be?

On the dangers of the critique of liberalism descending into illiberalism: My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Two dead in Manchester synagogue attack, with suspect also believed killed - police The suspect was shot by police, who say his condition cannot be confirmed due to

A terrible, truly sickening act
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Thanks

Thanks

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Funny how suddenly so many on the right now see hurty words as a problem, and how suddenly expansive their notion of incitement has become.

Photo of light from a multi-storey car park at night

Sunday photo

When even a multi-storey car park can look magical (taken on London's Southbank)

THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF RACE AND CLASS This essay, on race and class in contemporary Britain, was my Observer column this week. (The column included also a short piece on the politics of human fossil finds.) It was published on 7 July 2…

Thank you. I've written a lot about the problem with the "white working class" discussion and the failure to see black and Asian people as working class

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A (very) belated thank you