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Nesrine Malik

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Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
If you really hate it when music and film stars do politics, here’s the answer: give us politics that works | Nesrine Malik
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If you really hate it when music and film stars do politics, here’s the answer: give us politics that works | Nesrine Malik
The problem is not famous people speaking out, as they always have. It is the feeling that leaders have failed, obliging celebrities to fill the vacuum, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 14/09/2026
Progressive politicians such as Zohran Mamdani offer answers to the bitter post-9/11 legacy of failures at home and abroad, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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The US right still paints Muslims as the ‘enemy’. But they are fighting for a brighter future for Americans | Nesrine Malik
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/09/2026
Israeli ministers keep telling everyone their brutal plans – so why doesn’t the world take them seriously? | Nesrine Malik
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Israeli ministers keep telling everyone their brutal plans – so why doesn’t the world take them seriously? | Nesrine Malik
Schemes to forcibly remove Palestinians from Gaza are not being promoted by fringe voices. But the international community continues to avert its eyes, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The biggest logical flaw of many critiques of Woke 1 is the drawing of an equivalence between social behaviours and state power. This week's column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Here is the news from the US: Woke 1.0 is over. But what did progressives do wrong? | Nesrine Malik
A movement with safety, dignity and equality at its heart has been blamed for the rightwing backlash. But within it were principles worth carrying forwards, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
And also, think of why we talk about blowback against black people like it’s the weather, a natural outcome, rather than the fact that it inherently exposes a default assumption that they are wrong ‘uns/stealing a living. Nothing troubling there, just think of the decent ones.
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I hung out with and around Saint Levant in Qatar, and went to his first public concert in Doha. My latest Guardian long read on the fun, sadness, and censorship of Arab popular culture since 2023. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
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Saint Levant: the pop star from Gaza caught between passionate fandom and bitter disapproval
The long read: His detractors say he shouldn’t be making pop music in times of war and destruction. His millions of fans say he has given them permission to celebrate their culture and their cause
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/05/2026
The result of normalising Reform’s ideas? Neighbour is turned against neighbour | Nesrine Malik
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The result of normalising Reform’s ideas? Neighbour is turned against neighbour | Nesrine Malik
‘Concern’ about immigration has now morphed into policing how ethnic minorities exist in our communities, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/05/2026
The UAE tries hard to keep its reputation spotless. But with the war in Sudan, how can it? | Nesrine Malik
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The UAE tries hard to keep its reputation spotless. But with the war in Sudan, how can it? | Nesrine Malik
Outrage is mounting about the Gulf country’s complicity in Sudan’s catastrophic civil war – and it might be starting to hit them where it hurts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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FairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"the UAE has earned its place among the ranks of the world’s outlaws": @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on how involvement in war crimes in Sudan is eating away at the UAE's reputation www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The UAE tries hard to keep its reputation spotless. But with the war in Sudan, how can it? | Nesrine Malik
Outrage is mounting about the Gulf country’s complicity in Sudan’s catastrophic civil war – and it might be starting to hit them where it hurts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Another reminder for our very timely online event tomorrow, 6 May – with @nesrinemalik.bsky.social talking to @trillingual.bsky.social about how the British media made the far right acceptable, introduced by @shainin.bsky.social. Free to all! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-the-br...
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How the British media made the far right acceptable
Equator’s Nesrine Malik and Daniel Trilling on how the British establishment made the far right respectable – and what we can do about it.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/04/2026
Trump’s chaotic war on Iran has dragged into its sixth week because he is fighting an adversary he doesn’t understand | Nesrine Malik
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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 | Nesrine Malik
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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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/03/2026
Will Trump bring peace, or more bombs? Shady speculators seem to bet right every time | Nesrine Malik
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Will Trump bring peace, or more bombs? Shady speculators seem to bet right every time | Nesrine Malik
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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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/03/2026
Trump’s video game war: AI, memes and a simplistic narrative have flattened the conflict | Nesrine Malik in Iran
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Trump’s video game war: AI, memes and a simplistic narrative have flattened the conflict | Nesrine Malik 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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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Some people on here who deride the importance of “Westminster gossip”: the reality is that the “trivial” changes in Downing Street are why this statement was made and that is a good thing.
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This week’s column on how major Arab powers tried to build a new Middle East over the Palestinians’ heads - and failed.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/03/2026
War in Iran, chaos in the Gulf, repression in the west: and the thread that binds them all is Palestine | 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 | Nesrine Malik
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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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Food for thought from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social well worth watching and listening www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
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Could Trump really end the war in Iran 'very soon'? - The Latest
Donald Trump has held an astonishing press conference in which he said the war in Iran was 'very complete' and could end 'very soon', but also claimed that the US had not 'won enough'. So is the war a...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/03/2026
The war on Iran is already upending the Middle East. Look to the Gulf states to see how | Nesrine Malik
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The war on Iran is already upending the Middle East. Look to the Gulf states to see how | Nesrine Malik
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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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
This is probably as close to correct as The Guardian are going to publish. Only ommission is that you don't just have to look at political cohorts to see who Starmer has alienated. He's had a knack for pissing off extremely specific groups of people who won't ever forget it.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/02/2026
Keir Starmer has a unique talent – to alienate absolutely everyone | Nesrine Malik
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Keir Starmer has a unique talent – to alienate absolutely everyone | Nesrine Malik
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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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/02/2026
What links Jeffrey Epstein and Keir Starmer’s government? A thick seam of contempt | Nesrine Malik
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What links Jeffrey Epstein and Keir Starmer’s government? A thick seam of contempt | Nesrine Malik
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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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/02/2026
Propaganda in cinemas, newsrooms slashed: this is the US media under Trump and his tech barons | Nesrine Malik
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Propaganda in cinemas, newsrooms slashed: this is the US media under Trump and his tech barons | Nesrine Malik
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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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This week’s column is on how it is impossible to talk about the death of the rules based order without tracing its stages of demise, from the war on terror to Gaza.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/01/2026
Even the Davos elites have woken up, but they need more than just speeches to survive the end of the old order | Nesrine Malik
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Even the Davos elites have woken up, but they need more than just speeches to survive the end of the old order | Nesrine Malik
Mark Carney and other custodians of the order are right to contemplate its death, but are they really willing to unpick the the entire system?, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
On passing through the veil into fascism
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/01/2026
What ICE is doing on US streets looks terrifying, but don’t forget: it could happen anywhere | Nesrine Malik
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What ICE is doing on US streets looks terrifying, but don’t forget: it could happen anywhere | Nesrine Malik
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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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Happy new year!!
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
What I find particularly galling about these ‘anti-wokeness limits your career’ takes is how they erase a number of thriving and respected thinkers, writers and academics who have been writing in serious and pioneering ways about identity for a while, and from whom I have benefited hugely.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/12/2025
Welcome to the twilight zone where Nigel Farage can be accused of racism yet still lead the polls | Nesrine Malik
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Welcome to the twilight zone where Nigel Farage can be accused of racism yet still lead the polls | Nesrine Malik
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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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 15/12/2025
As @nesrinemalik.bsky.social states, we know what to do, we choose not to: "He draws his power not from the sheer force of his arguments and personality, but increasingly just how recklessly the immigration issue has been handled by the political establishment" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Welcome to the twilight zone where Nigel Farage can be accused of racism yet still lead the polls | Nesrine Malik
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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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
This week’s column on the rise and normalisation of racism in both social and political discourse, and why that’s not just a right problem. The political establishment (and Labour in particular), is entirely absent or reckless when it comes to tackling racism, and how it is linked to immigration.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/12/2025
Look again at the Nuzzi affair. Because when our politics and media are so debased, the joke’s on us | 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 | Nesrine Malik
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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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/12/2025
It's not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon, Israel's onslaught continues | Nesrine Malik
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It's not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon, Israel's onslaught continues | Nesrine Malik
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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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
My most insufferable trait as someone from an African country is to perform flamboyant shock at how much you have to pay in cities like NY and London and not even a whole garden to kick a ball in!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/11/2025
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
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Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘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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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/11/2025
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
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Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
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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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Thank you to the judges for a nomination for work on Sudan, Gaza, and immigration. Especially pleased to see our Malak A Tantesh nominated for a richly deserved New Journalist of the Year accolade 🙏🏾
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/10/2025
Black History Month is a reflection of the political moment, so how do we revamp it?
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Black History Month is a reflection of the political moment, so how do we revamp it?
The aim is to address systemic and institutional racism but those efforts need the space to expand not shrink
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Honestly feel like Labour on immigration is a political and moral crisis with potentially scary consequences
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/10/2025
A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik
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A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik
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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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/10/2025
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
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While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
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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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Empire empiring, always.
But there are no tribes beyond us, nothing indeed but waves and rocks, and the yet more terrible Romans, from whose oppression escape is vainly sought by obedience and submission. Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. If the enemy be rich, they are rapacious; if he be poor, they lust for dominion; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them. Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace.

Complete Works of Tacitus. Tacitus. Sara Bryant. edited for Perseus. New York. : Random House, Inc. Random House, Inc.
1876. reprinted 1942.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/10/2025
Don’t despair, Tories: look upon Reform and see your rightful and fitting legacy | Nesrine Malik
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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 · 29/09/2025
Kamala Harris’s election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are | Nesrine Malik
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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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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/09/2025
Starmer finally said it: ‘We recognise Palestine.’ But Gaza desperately needs action – where is that? | Nesrine Malik
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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 · 17/09/2025
China is eyeing superpower status via Africa and the Caribbean. But are they partners or pawns?
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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 · 15/09/2025
Trump’s retreat from Nato was priced in. But his humiliation of Qatar and India spells total chaos | Nesrine Malik
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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 · 14/09/2025
Entirely on form for Starmer but still absolutely mind boggling
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