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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Don’t despair, Tories: look upon Reform and see your rightful and fitting legacy | Nesrine Malik

If Kemi Badenoch wonders why her party conference looks and feels like a sideshow, perhaps she should reflect on the Conservatives’ 14 years in power, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9d

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

This unapologetic trawl through a doomed campaign reveals a celebrity-obsessed party high on its own supply. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic, says columnist Nesrine Malik

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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you so much!

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16d

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

The British PM and others offered fine words, but after all the horror, many will say too little, too late. Palestinians need unfettered support – and now, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21d

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

Many are questioning whether China’s growing footprint in the Black diaspora is mutually beneficial

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23d

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

Allies indulged the US president on the basis they wouldn’t be bombed or suffer economic damage. So much for that idea, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 24d

Entirely on form for Starmer but still absolutely mind boggling

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24d

Still absolutely nothing to say about far right thugs rioting and attacking the police while a US tech billionaire calls for a violent insurrection on our streets

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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 25d

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.

Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · Jul 22

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.

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The go-between: how Qatar became the global capital of diplomacy

The long read: The tiny, astonishingly wealthy country has become a major player on the world stage, trying to solve some of the most intractable conflicts. What’s driving this project?

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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 25d

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

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UAE said weighing Qatari request to close Emirati embassy in Tel Aviv over Doha strike

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28d

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?

Paul Davies @docdave.bsky.social · 28d

Ouch. I’m talking about a general approach, not a single instance. And I think you’ll find, as a generalisation admittedly, that Labour supporters are anti-racism.

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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · Sep 8

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.

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Reshuffle it how you like, Starmer’s ‘grownup’ Labour has the Tory whiff of spiteful incompetence | Nesrine Malik

Here we are again: constant rebooting, cruel rhetoric and crackdowns. And hurtling towards a Reform-shaped future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · Sep 4

“[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.

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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · Sep 2

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.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · Sep 2

My theory is that there is *one* way to raise birth rates, and it is to normalise hands off French-style parenting. France is the only country in the world where the amount of time parents spend on care has fallen rather than risen, and has the highest fertility rate in Europe

Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · Sep 2

Finland has this and low birth rates! I’m not kidding, it is literally a global phenomenon.

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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you!

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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · Sep 1

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.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 1

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

The facts and the numbers are irrelevant: Donald Trump and Nigel Farage just find new excuses and increase the toxicity, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 1

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

The facts and the numbers are irrelevant: Donald Trump and Nigel Farage just find new excuses and increase the toxicity, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · Aug 25

too generous!

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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · Aug 25

'“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

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The Democrats are in deep trouble in the US – and Labour is on the way to joining them | Nesrine Malik

When millions of once-loyal supporters become disillusioned with a party, there can only be one result: electoral disaster, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Chris McGreal @chrismcgreal.bsky.social · Aug 18

"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...

Gaza’s journalists are talented, professional and dignified. That’s why Israel targets them | Nesrine Malik

Recent killings have dazed the world and provoked condemnation. But little is said about the calibre of Palestinian journalism, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · Aug 4

'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?'

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The real danger in this permacrisis is not the political drama: it’s the risk that nothing changes | Nesrine Malik

It is said the centre cannot hold, but what if it does? That’s a frightening recipe for more stasis and more rage, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · Jul 28

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.

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Protesting over Gaza’s starvation feels like screaming into a void – but we mustn’t stop | Nesrine Malik

Political platitudes and a few trucks of aid won’t save the children dying now. But they show leaders can’t ignore public opinion for ever, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Blackcal @blackcal.bsky.social · Jul 24

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.

Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · Jul 22

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...

The go-between: how Qatar became the global capital of diplomacy

The long read: The tiny, astonishingly wealthy country has become a major player on the world stage, trying to solve some of the most intractable conflicts. What’s driving this project?

www.theguardian.com

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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thank you, and glad you enjoyed!

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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · Jul 22

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...

The go-between: how Qatar became the global capital of diplomacy

The long read: The tiny, astonishingly wealthy country has become a major player on the world stage, trying to solve some of the most intractable conflicts. What’s driving this project?

www.theguardian.com

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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · Jul 22

I think in the short term it's hard to tell, but I think if it's a long term one then interesting things might happen