Kamala Harris’s election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are | Nesrine Malik

Starmer finally said it: ‘We recognise Palestine.’ But Gaza desperately needs action – where is that? | Nesrine Malik

China is eyeing superpower status via Africa and the Caribbean. But are they partners or pawns?

Trump’s retreat from Nato was priced in. But his humiliation of Qatar and India spells total chaos | Nesrine Malik

Entirely on form for Starmer but still absolutely mind boggling

My longform investigation on Qatar's global centrality from last month ends on the note of Qatar's unspent power. Doha coming under attack from both Iran and Israel now edging Qatar further in the direction of deploying what it can to protect itself.

This stuff may well be for show, but nonetheless over the past 4 days there has been a remarkable realignment in the Gulf after the Doha strike www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

The Labour government's response to a summer of open racism, including physical attacks and the demonisation of some of its own Cabinet, has been to hide. 'Anti-racism' is something you actually have to do, not something you are. Seriously, why can't people like this hear themselves?

This week's column on Labour's rapid implosion resembling the Tories' slower one, and ending up in the same place of government by bullshit and crackdown. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“[Sudan] has been used as a tool to prove that concern for genocide elsewhere is motivated by…nefarious actors.” Sudanese journalist and author @nesrinemalik.bsky.social responds to Western media using the Sudanese civil war to deflect from Gaza. Watch the full panel: zeteo.com/p/genocide-i...

As an extension of this my theory is that the fracture of the extended family over the last 50 years or so has made what is only manageable as a group care and financial pooling effort become a solo endeavour and so the only component that can be adjusted now is how much you decide to put in.

This week's column is on how nothing will ever be enough to take the sting out of immigration, and that's because political and media elites have an interest in radicalising the issue, constantly moving it along to the next stage of crackdown.

Voting for Brexit, stopping the small boats – none of it will ever appease those who wage war on immigration | Nesrine Malik

'“Elections are won from the centre” goes the old adage, but increasingly the centre itself has changed as the world becomes not a place of wide-tent compromise, but of irreconcilable differences.' This week's column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Al Jazeera told me that he was sent a warning by Israeli intelligence and told to stop reporting." Chapter and verse from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social‬ on Israel's campaign of murder of Palestinian journalists. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'What if the problem isn’t that the centre cannot hold, but that it *can*, and in doing so brings about a new, volatile, miserable status quo of escalating rage and impotent government?' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

All that is not action is noise. This week's column on Gaza as politicians rinse and repeat statements of concern without meaningful pressure on Israel. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fascinating read about a country I know little about. Enjoy reading @nesrinemalik.bsky.social opinion pieces in The Guardian, but often feel they are too short. This long read is really well written, great work.

The go-between. My long read on how Qatar has become the diplomatic capital of the world, and the power it has accumulated in the process. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

🇶🇦 Especially for those of us who mindlessly change planes there in the middle of the night, here's a fascinating long read about how Qatar overtook Geneva, Oslo and the UN to become the diplomacy capital and mediator of the modern world, by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social

The go-between. My long read on how Qatar has become the diplomatic capital of the world, and the power it has accumulated in the process. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

This week’s column is on people losing their minds, and insulting the public’s intelligence, over Mamdani. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik

Make sure to read this by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the clumsy curelty of the gov's ILR changes "Every bad day at work becomes... a worry that your whole life in the UK may be over. Long-term sickness becomes not just a health calamity, but an existential one" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The turning point that wasn't: the way the world talks about Israel's war has changed. Nothing else has | Nesrine Malik

It will never be enough.

Appalling speech by Starmer. Dishonest, inhumane and most of all, cowardly.

This week’s column is on what increasingly defines western democracy, being held hostage by centrist governments with threats of a worse alternative www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Really hard hard read. But please do read it.

This week’s column is on AI slop and the aestheticisation of fascism. Happy Easter! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dump, diversify, divest from America. This week’s column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘The demand is that to be safe from persecution, you must pluck out your eyes. Instead of ejecting Gaza from domestic politics, Israel’s allies have brought the war home.’ This week’s column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'What occurred in Khartoum is the biggest looting of an African city, if not any capital city, in modern history. From cultural heritage to the belongings of its people, nothing escaped.' This week's very sad column as accounts of a liberated Khartoum emerge www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Must read from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social: "First, [the repressive techniques] are used against those who are seen as inferior; then, they are deployed even against those citizens with full rights and privileges if they dare to question authority." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Has a respectfully appropriate period elapsed now that we can say Severance S2 is not good.

This week's column is on how clinging on and hoping for a Labour surge either in terms of popularity or well formulated policy is now for the birds www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Ceasefire’ is a hollow word for Palestinians – the killings, displacements and denial of aid continue | Nesrine Malik

A wonderful week in NY receiving the Silvers-Dudley prize for journalism alongside Gary Younge, which vastly multiplies the honour!

There is a clear Trump doctrine. Those who can’t see it won't have a say in reshaping the world | Nesrine Malik

Trump’s plan for Gaza leaves Arab nations facing an impossible choice | Nesrine Malik

A nice surprise to be shortlisted for broadsheet columnist of the year alongside so many great colleagues 🙏🏾 www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...

Donald Trump is remaking the world. But he really won’t like the result | Nesrine Malik

It's very rare to see any mention of America's shameful The Hague Invasion Act of 2002, but here's an article that does: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social

Trump 2.0 is exposing American exceptionalism for what it is – and has always been | Nesrine Malik

‘We owe it to the thousands of children who have been killed to pause and open ourselves up to the fullness of the little lives that were snatched away.’ Goodbye to the slain children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As some Gaza residents return to the wreckage of northern Gaza, and on a day when we say Never Again, this is a very sad very powerful piece from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social

Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik

We ignore Sudan at our peril. This campaign of mass murder and rape will have global consequences | Nesrine Malik

The United States has declared that a genocide took place in Sudan, drawing fresh attention to the scale of atrocities in Africa’s largest war www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/w...