Today’s political conversation is dominated by one topic above all: race. The Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik has been way ahead of the pack in diagnosing how immigrants, their kids and grandkids are reshaping not just politics but western societies. On the latest episode of Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty, Nesrine talks about where never-ending culture wars and real wars in the Middle East have left people of colour
Aditya’s suggested reading list for Nesrine Malik:
In this podcast, Nesrine and I talk about how Gaza has reshaped politics in Britain and America. I quote from this column by her from November 2023 and also cite this prescient piece on Gaza and Labour , from October 2023
We also discuss ‘identity politics’ (a term only ever used against ethnic minorities). Her book We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent is worth revisiting
More recently, she has addressed the obits being written for Woke 1.0
Finally, we didn’t get a chance to discuss Sudan’s civil war, but Nesrine’s Long Read on the Khartoum in which she grew up is very powerful
