Kenan Malik
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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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Joined January 2009
“Such is the degradation of political and moral thinking wrought by the immigration debate that the brazen overturning of democratic norms is regarded as ‘sensible’ and critics dismissed as ‘hysterical’.” My @ObserverUK column:
observer.co.uk
Katie Lam’s plan for expulsions opens the door to curtailing the rights of us all
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And now I am off to Sheffield @otsfestival to talk race, class and history (and my book *Not So Black and White*) with Sunjeev Sahota
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“The most intractable problem is that neither of the two main solutions to the conflict – the creation of two states for Jews and Palestinians or a single, secular democratic state for both – is currently viable.” My @ObserverUK column:
observer.co.uk
Both sides in the conflict are entrenched in their unwillingness to cede ground to the other
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Sunday photo Carcass. The skeletal remains of a half-buried boat at Talmine, the Kyle of Tongue, Sutherland
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Have been writing about this recently. A great deal of narrative labour went into privileging 'ordinariness' from the late 80s on. It was a discursive closing of horizons following decades of popular modernism during which uplift and ambition were prized over 'ordinariness'.
“Hidden here is the assumption that ordinary people are unable to grasp anything challenging... It is a wretchedly patronising claim imposed upon working class people by middle-class gatekeepers who define what is ‘relevant’.” My @ObserverUK column:
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And next Sunday, I’m off to Sheffield @otsfestival in conversation with the wonderful Sunjeev Sahota, talking about race, class and history
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“Hidden here is the assumption that ordinary people are unable to grasp anything challenging... It is a wretchedly patronising claim imposed upon working class people by middle-class gatekeepers who define what is ‘relevant’.” My @ObserverUK column:
observer.co.uk
The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book
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Sunday photo Bird flies into a Rothko (taken on the Adriatic near Dubrovnik)
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On the dangers of the critique of liberalism descending into illiberalism: My @ObserverUK column:
observer.co.uk
If we fail to uphold equality and democracy, where will our society be?
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A terrible, sickening act
Police responding to reports of stabbing at synagogue in Manchester, England Follow live:
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I've never heard a single person ever say they want Chinese takeaway owners to go back to China. The Asians people have problems with, lets be honest, are mainly Muslims.
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Except from the 50s onwards, the argument was precisely that "they are sponging off the state". This is just romanticisation of past responses to immigration.
@kenanmalik It was workable, because they worked… not being drawn in for free everything…
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Except that the same kind of people who now claim “immigration was workable in the 80s” at the time thought immigration was unworkable, that Powell was right and that people like me or Ince or Eubank or Bruno came from “alien cultures”, did not belong and should be kicked out.
Aaron is drawing the wrong conclusions. Immigration was more workable in the 80s because there was much less of it, it tended to be more culturally similar, people integrated and the native population wasn't threatened. Now, we pay huge amounts to import medieval alien cultures
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Funny how suddenly so many on the right now see hurty words as a problem, and how suddenly expansive their notion of incitement has become.
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Sunday photo When even a multi-storey car park can look magical (taken on London's Southbank)
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"So right, yer buggers, then! We’ll occupy your lousy leasehold Poetry." RIP Tony Harrison
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“The battle against antisemitism has become as much about policing speech as about protecting Jews.” My @ObserverUK column:
observer.co.uk
The sense of what defines anti-Jewish bigotry has changed radically since the 70s
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“A demonstration of the toxic melding of the inchoateness of popular discontent, the inability of the left to speak to working-class grievances and the venomous malevolence of the far right that shapes so much of politics.” My @ObserverUK column:
observer.co.uk
Under the racist chants at last week’s rally lies a deep sense of political betrayal
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And the response of a prominent conservative advocate of free speech
Bill Maher was canceled from ABC for making an edgy joke after 9/11. His show was literally called Politically Incorrect. None of this is new. If Kimmel is talented like Bill, he’ll get a new show on HBO. Or start a podcast on YouTube - let the people decide if they actually
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