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Shapeshifting fascism and the broken promises of social democracy

Letters: Readers respond to Daniel Trilling’s article asking if fascism is making a comeback

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Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel

Commentators have said that the US president’s clownishness and lack of ideology somehow make him less dangerous. They’re wrong, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Ideology and principles clash in Trump’s Iran war

Letters: Lt Col (retd) Rob Symonds and David Flint respond to an article by Nesrine Malik on the motivations driving the conflict between the US and Iran

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Trump’s chaotic war on Iran has dragged into its sixth week because he is fighting an adversary he doesn’t understand

Ignorance and arrogance were his drivers. The idea that the regime plays by different rules, with its own goals, never occurred to him, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Will Trump bring peace, or more bombs? Shady speculators seem to bet right every time

The president may not be benefiting directly from betting markets, but he has encouraged a culture that treats politics like a casino floor, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Trump’s video game war: AI, memes and a simplistic narrative have flattened the conflict in Iran

What was supposed to be a quick win has become a quagmire, so it now must be reduced to a dopamine hit, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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War in Iran, chaos in the Gulf, repression in the west: and the thread that binds them all is Palestine

In the Middle East, the occupation is the original sin. And those who banked on this US-backed ‘stability’ now find it giving way beneath them, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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The war on Iran is already upending the Middle East. Look to the Gulf states to see how

Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE are finding their carefully projected image of stability has been blown away, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Keir Starmer has a unique talent – to alienate absolutely everyone

Who is his constituency now? Not the left or the right – and not the centre any more. That’s why there’s been a nosedive in the polls, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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What links Jeffrey Epstein and Keir Starmer’s government? A thick seam of contempt

We’re often told the PM is a ‘decent’ man. But in appointing Peter Mandelson he chose political convenience over doing right by trafficked women and girls, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Propaganda in cinemas, newsrooms slashed: this is the US media under Trump and his tech barons

The president and his supporters joining forces to decide what audiences read and see seems straight from a fascism playbook, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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What ICE is doing on US streets looks terrifying, but don’t forget: it could happen anywhere

This shocking moment is the outcome of a political, institutional and media environment that is not far off Britain’s, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Trump’s coup in Venezuela didn’t just break the rules – it showed there aren’t any. We’ll all regret that

It’s not just the triumphalism in the White House. Leaders loth to oppose this gangsterism must think how that looks to Putin, Xi and in the UAE, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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We abhor racism in Britain, but refuse to recognise where it comes from

Letters: Paul McGilchrist says we will remain complicit in the rise of racism until we can accept that it emerges from problematic behaviours and attitudes. Plus letters from Dr Peter Purton and Michael Bulley

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Welcome to the twilight zone where Nigel Farage can be accused of racism yet still lead the polls

After weeks of allegations of schoolboy racism, the Reform leader is doubling down. And our political establishment is allowing it, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Look again at the Nuzzi affair. Because when our politics and media are so debased, the joke’s on us

There is a bread and circuses feel to this scandal. A wise public would see red flags; instead it sees entertainment, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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It’s not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon, Israel’s onslaught continues

Broken ceasefires, bombing, ground incursions and mounting deaths: Israeli imperialism is now expanding across the region, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Shabana Mahmood and my surprise at teenagers’ views on immigration

Letters: Rev Dr Michael Fox responds to an article by Nesrine Malik on the home secretary using her ‘story’ to silence criticism of her policies

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Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive

‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Labour has entered its musical chairs era – and we’re sucked into another pointless death spiral

Briefing wars, toxic infighting, paranoid office politics: we’ve seen it all before. And once again, the drama at No 10 has absolutely nothing to do with us, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Zohran Mamdani showed how it’s done: ‘identity politics’ can win elections

New York’s newly elected mayor rooted his campaign in the personal while, ironically, exemplifying the tradition of the American ‘melting pot’, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on

The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Asking immigrants for ‘A-level English’ is absurd

Letters: Pam Marshall, Christine Lehman, Bryn Jones and Peter West react an article by Nesrine Malik on the government’s tougher conditions for immigrants

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A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants

It’s easier for politicians to blame others than to face the truth: Britain has been stripped of the spaces and opportunities that allow for true social integration, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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