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
On the assisted dying debate, Pandaemonium, 26 October 2021
Claiming a monopoly on truth and decency is no way to win the assisted dying debate, The Observer, 24 October 2021
On the flaunting of double standards, Pandaemonium, 19 October 2021
Whether freedom of speech or fairness to migrants, some principles are sacred, The Observer, 17 October 2021
Want to raise wages? Rebuild our unions, Pandaemonium, 12 October 2021
Blame the erosion of trade union power, not migrants, for poor wages, The Observer, 10 October 2021
The Anglosphere and the history of liberty, Pandaemonium, 28 September 2021
We should not allow the Anglosphere to distort the history of liberty, The Observer, 26 September 2021
Mortality, inequality and lessons from America, Pandaemonium, 21 September 2021
America's mortality gap should sound a blaring alarm across the Atlantic, The Observer, 19 September 2021
Omar Little and moral complexity, Pandaemonium, 14 September 2021
In an age too given to moral certainty, let's remember The Wire's Omar as a study in complexity, The Observer, 12 September 2021
The magical quality of whiteness, Pandaemonium, 7 September 2021
To be truly British, the country needs to stay largely white. Really, Lionel Shriver? The Observer, 5 September 2021
Creating inequality beyond the pandemic, Pandaemonium, 31 August 2021
The rich nations' take on the world post-pandemic? ‘I'm all right, Jack', The Observer, 29 August 2021
Refugee policy from inside the bunker, Pandaemonium, 24 August 2021
Britain's offer to Afghan refugees is not ‘generous'. It's blindly inhumane, The Observer, 22 August 2021
From the esl to not much better, Pandaemonium, 17 August 2021
It was only yesterday we saved football's soul. We might be losing it again... , The Observer, 15 August 2021
Covid and the myths of East and West, Pandaemonium, 10 August 2021
Can Covid death rates be reduced to a clash of values? It's not so simple, The Observer, 8 August 2021
Levelling up? More like hammerin down, Pandaemonium, 27 July 2021
Levelling up should take many forms. And don't forget London's poorest need it too, The Observer, 25 July 2021
Inequality and the politics of division, Pandaemonium, 20 July 2021
Gross inequality stoked the violence in South Africa. It's a warning to us all, The Observer, 18 July 2021
Cynicism & cruelty dressed up as law, Pandaemonium, 13 July 2021
After Priti Patel has finshed, which refugees will carry a torch for Britain?, The Observer, 11 July 2021
On being a 90-minute Englishman, Pandaemonium, 7 July 2021
Plucked from the web #81, Pandaemonium, 5 July 2021
I love the football team but can't get tribal about England. What's going on? The Observer, 4 July 2021
The power not to be held accountable for one's power, Pandaemonium, 29 June 2021
From Grenfell Tower to the Met police, shirking responsibility has become endemic, The Observer, 27 June 2021
Offence, cruelty and public debate, Pandaemonium, 23 June 2021
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie captures the hypocrisies of too many ‘social justice' zealots, The Observer, 20 June 2021
Sport, poltics and taking the knee, Pandaemonium, 16 June 2021
It's impossible to keep politics out of sport. And that's just as it should be, The Observer, 13 June 2021
The good, the bad and medical data, Pandaemonium, 9 June 2021
The Bigotry of race norming, Pandaemonium, 6 June 2021
‘Race norming' is bigotry that began with good intentions, The Observer, 6 June 2021
Tell me how you'll use my medical data. Only then might I sign up, The Observer, 6 June 2021
A shared future from the river to the sea. Pandaemonium, 25 May 2021
Plucked from the wen #80, Pandaemonium, 23 May 2021
Both left and right practise ‘cancel culture'. Both should stop, The Observer, 23 May 2021
From the river to the sea, Jews and Arabs must forge a shared future, The Observer, 23 May 2021
Free speech and political expediency, Pandaemonium, 18 May 2021
On immigration, Michel Barnier has joined the race to the bottom, The Observer, 16 May 2021
Challenge bigotry by all means, but outlaw it? I'd rather not, The Observer, 16 May 2021
Napoleon, Churchill and horrible histories, Pandaemonium, 12 May 2021
Let's be honest – every national hero is tainted by the values of our time, The Observer, 9 May 2021
The buried truths that say so much about our ancestors, The Observer, 9 May 2021
Grenfall, corruption and the hollowed-out state, Pandaemonium, 4 May 2021
Oriemtalism and ahistoricism, Pandaemonium, 2 May 2021
Grenfell is still giving up its secrets and they retain the power to shock, The Observer, 2 May 2021
Great thinkers make sense of a world racked by contradictions, The Observer, 2 May 2021
Policing inequalites of race and class, Pandaemonium, 24 April 2021
US policing is far less about fighting crime than controlling the poor, The Observer, 25 April 2021
New vaccine success for Oxford is truly remarkable, The Observer, 25 April 2021
Immigration and the race to the bottom, Pandaemonium, 20 April 2021
By demonising asylum seekers, Denmark reflects a panic in social democracy, The Observer, 18 April 2021
Authenicity, identity and Luther, Pandaemonium, 18 April 2021
Is Luther not black enough if he doesn't eat jerk chicken? The Observer, 18 April 2021
Here's to social spaces, Pandaemonium, 13 April 2021
Full pubs are a sign of communities that work. Let's toast their return, The Observer, 11 April 2021
So, what's wromg with the Sewell report? Pandaemonium, 6 April 2021
Yes, we need a more nuanced debate about race. But this flawed report fails to deliver it, The Observer, 4 April 2021
To liove in a plural society, Pandaemonium, 30 March 2021
“Creativity is not fearing the unknown” by Nawal El Saadawi and Kenan Malik, Pandaemonium, 28 March 2021 (video)
To live in a diverse society means to live with debate. Bring it on, The Observer, 28 March 2021
Why the Shrewsbury 24 case is so relevant right now, The Observer, 28 March 2021
Racism, privilege and anti-Asian hostility, Pandaemonium, 23 March 2021
Myths of Asian privilege fuel a brutal and cartoonish bigotry, The Observer, 21 March 2021
Must we wave the flag at every little thing now, good or bad?, The Observer, 21 March 2021
Start the weel talking identity, Pandaemonium, 20 March 2021
Protests & policing after the pandemic, Pandaemonium, 16 March 2021
If you thought the right to protest was inalienable, then think again, The Observer, 14 March 2021
Unlevelling Down is the Tories' new vote-winner, The Observer, 14 March 2021
Translation and identity, Pandaemonium, 9 March 2021
Lost in translation: the dead end of dividing the world on identity lines, The Observer, 7 March 2021
The law is only unbending when we choose it to be, The Observer, 7 March 2021
Inequality and political divides, Pandaemonium, 3 March 2021
Britain has a moral and legal obligation to Shamima Begum, The Observer, 28 February 2021
The left/right divide still exists. But it's struggling to escape the lure of identity politics, The Observer, 28 February 2021
Democracy and the Rohingya Pandaemonium, 24 February 2021
Where were the protesters when the Rohingya were being murdered?, The Observer, 21 February 2021
The woke and the unwoke, Pandaemonium, 16 February 2021
Plucked from the web #79, Pandaemonium, 15 February 2021
Irrational markets and corporate power, Pandaemonium, 3 February 2021
The noble savages of the working class, Pandaemonium, 26 January 2021
Coronavirus vaccines offer the world hope – unless you live in Africa, The Observer, 24 January 2021
Age-old notions of the noble savage haunt views of working-class life, The Observer, 24 January 2021
Free speech, big tech and broken politics' Pandaemonium, 19 January 2021
In Britain and abroad, it's easy to scapegoat poor migrants, The Observer, 17 January 2021
Control Facebook and mend broken societies... If only it were that simple, The Observer, 17 January 2021
Less about money than about priorities, Pandaemonium, 12 January 2021
Lives are falling apart. Enough talk about inequality, it's now time to act, The Observer, 10 January 2021
Do footballers really deserve to jump the queue for the vaccine? The Observer, 10 January 2021
The Red Wall traps ro avoid (and not to avoid), Pandaemonium, 5 January 2021
Is the world waking up to collective action's possibilities? The Observer, 3 January 2021
It's too easy to lapse into stereotypes when we talk about ‘red wall' seats, The Observer, 3 January 2021
Songs of despair and hope, Pandaemonium, 1 January 2021