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Admire Rushdie as a writer and a champion – but don’t forget he is a man of flesh and blood

For decades, we have asked the novelist to carry the weight of our anxieties. Can we now just let him be human, asks Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2022

It’s the culture war games – and the last Tory contenders are on the run from reality

Johnson is on his way out but the ‘war on woke’ is here to stay: it’s all they have to talk about as the economy crumbles, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian - UK · Aug 8, 2022

Only a country as complacent as the UK could give up its border privilege so easily

Take it from someone who grew up with a ‘low-ranking’ passport – Brexit has made international travel inherently more chaotic and stressful, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian - UK · Aug 1, 2022

It doesn’t matter if Boris Johnson is a dead man walking as PM. The damage is done

We think he will go one day soon and we’ll avoid disaster. But that’s false comfort: the meltdown is already happening, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian - UK · Jul 4, 2022

Authors at Hay festival weigh the meaning of authenticity

Who can write about whom was a running question, tackled by writers from Rose Tremain to Damon Galgut

The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2022

All wars horrify us, but it seems not equally so

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Nesrine Malik about how the invasion of Ukraine has been viewed differently to other conflicts across the globe

The Guardian - UK · Mar 4, 2022

Let the horror in Ukraine open our eyes to the suffering of war around the world

Too many frame Putin’s assault as an attack on ‘civilisation’, uniquely awful because it happened in Europe. That approach demeans us all, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2022

Scared to be ‘woke’? It’s time for progressives to take a stand in the culture wars

Topics such as empire and racism cannot be reduced to a threadbare concept like ‘wokery’. Labour must campaign for social justice on its own terms, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2022

Johnson’s Starmer slur was just the latest proof of Britain’s rotten political culture

There was more pushback than usual, but the smear didn’t come out of a clear blue sky, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2022

This government has been built on a fantasy. Restoring reality will cost the Tories dear

Boris Johnson’s lies have damaged democracy - but it’s the entire Conservative ecosystem that has let him get away with it, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian - UK · Feb 7, 2022