Kenan Malik
Writer, Lecturer and Broadcaster at Freelance
New book: Not So Black and White (Hurst). “Unsettles the pieties of contemporary race-talk” - Paul Gilroy. “A magical accomplishment” - Remi Adekoya.
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1 week ago |
observer.co.uk | Kenan Malik
“Since I understood liberalism,” Alasdair MacIntyre once told an interviewer, “I have wanted nothing to do with it.”His death, last month, has robbed us of one of the most important moral philosophers of the past century. Born in Glasgow in 1929, he spent most of his life teaching in America.
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2 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Kenan Malik
For years Netanyahu supported Hamas to destabilise Palestine. Now he lays waste to Gaza in a bid to undo a horror in part of his own making ‘They want Hamas to remain in power,” claimed the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, after European and Canadian government criticisms of Israel’s actions in Gaza.
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3 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Kenan Malik
‘Society? There is no such thing!” Margaret Thatcher famously told Woman’s Own magazine in 1987. “There are individual men and women, and there are families.”Thatcher’s critics viewed her sentiment as expressing a soulless selfishness, her supporters as an assertion of personal responsibility.
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3 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Kenan Malik
The demise of class politics has led to social fragmentation. Starmer is misplacing the blame “Society? There is no such thing!” Margaret Thatcher famously told Woman’s Own magazine in 1987. “There are individual men and women, and there are families.”Thatcher’s critics viewed her sentiment as expressing a soulless selfishness, her supporters as an assertion of personal responsibility.
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1 month ago |
observer.co.uk | Kenan Malik
The UK’s trade deal with India has led Reform to claim that British jobs are at risk, but this is a cynical ploy to exploit fears about immigration ‘Two-Tier Keir betrays British workers.” “Labour’s Tax Break for Indian Workers.” “British workers come last in Starmer’s Britain.” “An open door for further mass uncontrolled immigration of low skilled workers.” “This is not the time to trade away immigration controls.” Quotes and headlines from Nigel Farage, the Daily Mail, Robert Jenrick,...
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When they asked for a fiction list, I'm not sure this is what they meant. But this the path down which media is going, cutting costs, replacing humans with AI.
The Chicago Sun-Times printed a "summer reading list" featuring real authors but mostly made up books, generated by a freelancer using AI. This comes two months after the newspaper cut 20% of its staff. https://t.co/TLMbDxuey0
RT @Taj_Ali1: This is an actual headline https://t.co/gH0ppggOP9
“For fifty years, Israel tolerated, even supported… Hamas as a useful weapon with which to sow discord within Palestinian ranks. Now it has laid Gaza to waste in pursuit of a monster it helped spawn.” My @ObserverUK column: https://t.co/w8oCFSVA9x
