Kenan Malik is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster. He is Senior Visiting Fellow at the Department of Political, International and Policy Studies at the University of Surrey. He is a presenter of Analysis, BBC Radio 4's flagship current affairs programme and a panelist on the Moral Maze. His books include The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics (2014), From Fatwa to Jihad (2009), Strange Fruit (2008), Man, Beast and Zombie (2000), and The Meaning of Race (1996).
Malik was born in India, brought up in Manchester and now lives in London. He studied neurobiology (at the University of Sussex) and history and philosophy of science (at Imperial College, London). He was for a number of years a research psychologist at the Centre for Research into Perception and Cognition (CRPC) at the University of Sussex, working on problems of the mental representation of spatial relations. For the past decade, he has been an independent writer, lecturer, researcher and broadcaster.
Lontoon vuodet (1983-2000), TL:n muistoja, 10.10.2019
Maahanmuutto ja ihmisten etninen karsinoiminen, 29.1.2014
Kenan Malik, Strange fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate. Oneworld 2008.
Celebrating diversity or equality? by Marek Kohn, Eagle Street, June 1997
Diane Abbott draws Finns into British race debate, Eagle Street, March 1997
Worship the rich, neglect the poor? Adam Smith's words still capture how power works, The Observer, 24 July 2022
Give me a pale male PM with great policies over a ‘diverse' one reinforcing inequality, The Observer, 17 July 2022
Long gone, but speaking clearly to our age – Shelley, the poet of moral and political corruption, The Observer, 10 July 2022
It's not just the far right that should worry us. It's their ideas seeping into the mainstream, The Observer, 3 July 2022
Enemy within? Hardly... most people see why we need unions prepared to strike, The Observer, 26 June 2022
Forget sentience… the worry is that AI copies human bias, The Observer, 19 June 2022
Film bans are less about offence, more ‘community leaders' showing who's boss, The Observer, 12 June 2022
The ubderisation of Britain, Pandaemonium, 4 May 2022
In the name of job flexibility, ‘Uberisation' is spreading its tentacles across society, The Observer, 1 May 2022
In this new age of empire, the west has no need to conquer. Money and coercion do the job, The Observer, 24 April 2022
Not so black and white, Pandaemonium, 13 April 2022
Sex, Gender and sport, Pandaemonium, 6 April 2022
From pool to track: disputes over trans athletes mustn't make everyone a loser, The Observer, 3 April 2022
Sovereignty not just when it is politically convenient, Pandaemonium, 30 March 2022
As the imperial ties are being cast aside, a royal tour was always going to be a farce, The Observer, 27 March 2022
Solidarity, identity and "people like us", Pandaemonium, 9 March 2022
he people of Ukraine need our solidarity. But not just because they're ‘like us', The Observer, 6 March 2022
Covid and freedom: trivialised and tribalised, Pandaemonium, 2 March 2022
‘Freedom day' was no leap into the light. For that we must set aside tribalism, The Observer, 27 February 2022
Not just a black and white issue, Pandaemonium, 9 February 2022
Whoopi Goldberg's Holocaust remarks drew on a misguided idea of racism, The Observer, 6 February 2022
Forgetting the lessons of free speech struggles, Pandaemonium, 2 February 2022
Freedom of speech was too hard won to be cavalier now about censorship, The Observer, 30 January 2022
The poverty of moralism, Pandaemonium, 26 January 2022