Kenan Malik explains more eloquently than I could have why Oliver Anthony's song Rich Men North of Richland is full of shit.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/20/rich-men-north-of-richmond-oliver-anthony-protest-song-america

#oliveranthony
#richmennorthofrichmond
#kenanmalik

Colonialism by Nigel Biggar review – a flawed defence of empire
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/20/colonialism-a-moral-reckoning-by-nigel-biggar-review-a-flawed-defence-of-empire?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#NigelBiggar
#Colonialism
#KenanMalik

Plenty of us were troubled by the very premise of #Prevent at the start. Twenty years later, we have plenty evidence that it is not the way to go. #KenanMalik #Radicalisation #ShawcrossReview https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/12/prevent-doesnt-stop-radicalisation-and-the-shawcross-plan-will-just-make-it-worse

Debt, bad; work, good: ‘pub bore’ beliefs that seal a miserable fate for the poorest https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/05/debt-bad-work-good-pub-bore-beliefs-that-seal-a-miserable-fate-for-the-poorest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#WorkAsVirtue
#Austerity
#Poverty
#KenanMalik

Hanif Kureishi helped liberate British Asians from their imposed identities https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/22/hanif-kureishi-helped-liberate-british-asians-from-their-imposed-identities?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#HanifKureishi
#KenanMalik

“There is a danger in all this that, as the self-proclaimed titans and saviours tumble, what becomes nurtured is a cynicism about change and innovation. The problem is not having a transformative vision about the future, whether in technology or in politics. It is the shallowness & lack of seriousness of those who today present themselves as messiahs.”
#KenanMalik

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/20/beware-self-made-genius-entrepreneurs-promising-earth-just-look-at-elon-musk