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
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
Cynicims, trust and a broken public sphere, Pandaemonium, 29 December 2020
A year of Pandaemonium, 27 December 2020
We want to trust in each other. But it'd be easier if we weren't so isolated, The Observer, 27 December 2020
Inequality, class and the culture wars, Pandaemonium, 22 December 2020
The Tory ‘class agenda' is a culture war stunt that will leave inequality untouched, The Observer, 20 December 2020
Blues & roots & jazz bassists, Pandaemonium, 20 December 2020 (videos)
Respect and tolerance, people and ideas, Pandaemonium, 15 December 2020
The Grenfell inquiry exposes market forces at their deadliest, The Observer, 13 December 2020
Ideas can be tolerated without being respected. The distinction is key, The Observer, 13 December 2020
Plucked from the web #78, Pandaemonium, 12 December 2020
Leveraging cruelty as a social good, Pandaemonium, 8 December 2020
Our leaders can't preach respect and treat the vulnerable with contempt, The Observer, 6 December 2020
From the land of no cinemas, a film worth watching in one, The Observer, 6 December 2020
Natural pathogens and a social affliction, Pandaemonium, 1 December 2020
There's a social pathogen stalking the world that's as deadly as Covid-19, The Observer, 29 November 2020
Maradona, Muhammad Ali and me, Pandaemonium, 29 November 2020
It was Maradona's defiance that most inspired me, The Observer, 29 November 2020
A picture of how power works. Pandaemonium, 24 November 2020
Joe Biden's begging bowl demeans the world's most powerful post, The Observer, 22 November 2020
From Grenfell to PPE, absolute power still corrupts in high places, The Observer, 22 November 2020
Vaccines, hesitancy and trust, Pandaemonium, 17 November 2020
Vaccination hesitancy is about lack of trust- Compulsion is not the answer, The Observer, 15 November 2020
A Chicago story with lessons for libraries everywhere, The Observer, 15 November 2020
Terror, hypocrisy and illiberalism, Pandaemonium, 11 November 2020
Pluckes from the web #77, Pandaemonium, 8 November 2020
Fanatics have no right to censor critics. But neither does Emmanuel Macron, The Observer, 8 November 2020
Look to Poland for a lesson in how popular protest works, The Observer, 8 November 2020
The Putney debates and neglected history, Pandaemonium, 3 November 2020
Compassion, not ‘deterrence', should inform Britain's asylum policy, The Observer, 1 November 2020
It's true, we ignore parts of our history – and not just about our colonial past, The Observer, 1 November 2020
Making empire ethical, Pandaemonium, 31 October 2020
What football tells us about globalisation, Pandaemonium, 27 October 2020
Why can't questions be asked of Facebook's ads? The Observer, 25 October 2020
Money fosters the cosmopolitan joy of our football but also its soullessnes, The Observer, 25 October 2020
On being white and on being working class Pandaemonium, 20 October 2020
Being white won't hold boys back. Being working class just might, The Observer, 18 October 2020
To defend the freedom to offend, Pandaemonium, 17 October 2020
From Peterloo to the Mangrove Nine, Pandaemonium, 13 October 2020
Mangrove isn't simply a ‘black story', but central to our country's history, The Observer, 11 October 2020
On immigration, the public is far more liberal than UK government, The Observer, 11 October 2020
Debating the past, contesting the present, Pandaemonium, 11 October 2020
Welcome to flatland, Pandaemonium, 6 October 2020
Welcome to Flatland, where shallow appeal ousts substance and reason, The Observer, 4 October 2020
Memo to the Home Office: a little humanity goes a long way, The Observer, 4 October 2020
Retreating from liberties, Pandaemonium, 29 September 2020
Where is the voice of the left as 'libertarians' annex the Covid-19 debate?The Observer, 27 September 2020
Amy Coney Barrett should be judged on her ability, not her faith, The Observer, 27 September 2020
Plucked from the web #76, Pandaemonium, 27 September 2020
Worthy both of celebration and condemnation, Pandaemonium, 22 September 2020
David Hume was a complex man. Erasing his name is too simplistic a gesture, The Observer, 20 September 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legacy will survive the bitter battle over her successor, The Observer, 20 September 2020
We miss you, Jimi Hendrix. You were greater than 'God', The Observer, 20 September 2020
Turning inhumanity into policy, Pandaemonium, September 15 2020
Moria's only success has been to turn inhumanity into policy, The Observer, 13 September 2020
Salute Toots Hibbert – a reggae pioneer to rival Bob Marley, The Observer, 13 September 2020
When Monuments Fall, The New York Review of Books, 9 September 2020
Handing out sweeties in the comedy wars, Pandaemonium, September 8 2020
Our culture has lost its appetite for risk and making people feel uncomfortable, The Observer, 6 September 2020
Persuasion, not coercion, should be the goal of BLM and Extinction Rebellion, The Observer, 6 September 2020
Race, class and white privilege: A response, Pandaemonium, 30 August 2020
Fairness is a political judgment, not a thing itself, Pandaemonium, 25 August 2020
The cruel exams algorithm has laid bare the unfairness at the heart of our schools, The Observer, 23 August 2020
Plucked from the web #75, Pandaemonium, 23 August 2020
Migrant invasions and culture wars,
Pandaemonium, 18 August 2020
Inventing a 'migrant invasion' is part of a toxic rhetorical ploy, The Observer, 16 August 2020
Can we have a conversation about Kamala Harris's ideas? The Observer, 16 August 2020
From racism to white privilege, Pandaemonium, 15 August 2020
Hiroshima and the morality of victors, Pandaemonium, 11 August 2020
Don't let the victors define morality – Hiroshima was always indefensible, The Observer, 9 August 2020
Illuminating and obscuring -- a review of Pankaj Mishra’s Bland Fanatics, Pandaemonium, 8 August 2020
Blaming the poor, Pandaemonium, 4 August 2020
Illness, obesity, racism; who gets blamed for our crises? The poor of course, The Observer, 2 August 2020
Plucked from the nweb #74, Pandaemonium, 1 August 2020
Back to BAME, Pandaemonium, 28 July 2020
Pay tribute to Paulette Wilson by ending the UK's cruel immigration policies, The Observer, 26 July 2020
Don't call me BAME. We need a new political language, The Observer, 25 July 2020
Censorship and the voice of privilege. Pandaemonium, 21 July 2020
It's the powerless who suffer when free speech is threatened, The Observer, 19 July 2020
Britain can no longer shirk its responsibility for Shamima Begum, The Observer, 19 July 2020
From anti-racism to psychobabble, Pandaemonium, 14 July 2020
The rise of white identity politics, Prospect, 13 July 2020
Enough of the psychobabble. Racism is not something to fix with therapy, The Observer, 12 July 2020
Plucked from the web #74, Pandaemonium, 12 July 2020
Hagia Sophia is too complex for Erdogan's cleansing, The Observer, 12 July 2020
Politicians, voters and the values gap, Pandaemonium, 7 July 2020
What are politicians for if they can't change public opinion? The Observer, 5 July 2020
The need to transform the immigration mindset, Pandaemonium, 30 June 2020
That Clayton Barnes is still not a citizen shows the ongoing cruelty of ‘hostile environment', The Observer, 28 June 2020
The Epic of American Civilization, Pandaemonium, 27 June 2020
Plucked from the web #73, Pandaemonium, 21 June 2020
Culture wars risk blinding us to just how liberal we've become in the past decades, The Observer, 21 June 2020
Racism is a problem, white people are not, Pandaemonium, 16 June 2020
'White privilege' is a distraction, leaving racism and power untouched, The Observer, 14 June 2020
Identity politics: The interview, Pandaemonium, 13 June 2020 (video)
A human necessity not a profit-making machibe, Pandaemonium, 9 June 2020
If drug firms take public funds they must make their finds available to all, The Observer, 7 June 2020
Publish and debate, NYT, but don't be in denial, The Observer, 7 June 2020
Laundering state action, politicising fact checking, Pandaemonium, 2 June 2020
In a polarised world, even checking facts on Twitter becomes politicised, The Observer, 31 May 2020
Boris Johnson is a picture of ignorance on immigration, The Observer, 31 May 2020
The ignorance and the cruelty, Pandaemonium, 30 May 2020
Viktor Frankl's search for meaning, Pandaemonium, 26 May 2020
Plucked from the web #72, Pandaemonium, 24 May 2020
What the lessons from Auschwitz teach us about the choices we make, The Observer, 24 May 2020
Artificial intelligence and human judgment, Pandaemonium, 19 May 2020
For all its sophistication, AI isn't fit to make life-or-death decisions, The Observer, 16 May 2020
The privilege of romanticising nature, Pandaemonium, 12 May 2020
Let's stop romanticising nature. So much of our life depends on defying it, The Observer, 10 May 2020
Plucked from the web #71, Pandaemonium, 9 May 2020
Fascism has never thrived in Britain but it haunts its mainstream politics, The Observer, 3 May 2020
Let's not put working-class writers in a limiting ghetto, The Observer, 3 May 2020
The globalization of clinical trials, Pandaemonium, 28 April 2020
Heroism and the quality of being human, Pandaemonium, 26 April 2020
We're desperate for a coronavirus cure, but at what cost to the human guinea pigs? The Observer, 26 April 2020
Heroism is the most human of qualities, The Observer, 26 April 2020
The most important of the least important things, Pandaemonium, 21 April 2020
It's not just the spectacle we crave. Sport also offers identity, pride, hope, The Observer, 19 April 2020
The history and politics of white identity, Pandaemonium, 18 April 2020 (video)
Policing the new normal, Pandaemonium, 14 April 2020
Yes, expect more surveillance during a crisis, but beware it once the danger has passed, The Observer, 12 April 2020
Plucked from the web #70, Pandaemonium, 11 April 2020
A virus does not discriminate but societies do, Pandaemonium, 7 April 2020
Whether in the UK or the developing world, we're not all in coronavirus together, The Observer, 5 April 2020
Our basic decency is clear. But a good society needs more than decency, The Observer, 29 March 2020
We're making a right mess of our right to free expression, The Observer, 29 March 2020
Why does itn requirena pandemic for... Pandaemonium, 24 March 2020
Coronavirus exposes society's fragility. Let's find solutions that endure once it's over, The Observer, 22 March 2020
Plucked from the web #69, Pandaemonium, 21 March 2020
Minding the metaphors, Pandaemonium, 17 March 2020
Will we finally discover the truth about Lockerbie?, The Observer, 15 March 2020
Like a moth to a flame, we're drawn to metaphors to explain ourselves, The Observer, 15 March 2020
A decade of light infusion, Pandaemonium, 14 March 2020 (photography)
What we mean when we ask, 'but what else can we do?', Pandaemonium, 10 March 2020
Detention, torture and killing … how the EU outsourced migration policy, The Observer, 8 March 2020
Censoring ‘dangerous' ideas is itself dangerous, The Observer, 8 March 2020
The real McCoys, Pandaemonium, 7 March 2020 (music videos)
This was not a riot, Pandaemonium, 2 March 2020
The violence in Delhi is not a ‘riot’. It is targeted anti-Muslim brutality, The Observer, 1 March 2020
Listen with Mantel... you won't be disappointed, The Observer, 1 March 2020
Plucled from the web #68, Pandaemonium, 29 February 2020
Far-right terror and mainstream politics, Pandaemonium, 24 February 2020
Beware the politics of identity. They help legitimise the toxic far right, The Observer, 23 February 2020
Charity clearly doesn’t begin at home for Jeff Bezos, The Observer, 23 February 2020
When citizens are not all made equal, Pandaemonium, 17 February 2020
Deportations to Jamaica, the Shamima Begum case and Windrush betray a woeful regard for the notion of citizenship, The Observer, 16 February 2020
Science is ever evolving, just like the human race, The Observer, 16 February 2020
American dirt, identity and imagination, Pandaemonium, 10 February 2020
Britain has a moral duty to bring back Shamima Begum, The Observer, 9 February 2020
American Dirt may be bad fiction, but its author wasn't wrong to write it, The Observer, 9 February 2020
Pandemics threaten more than our health, Pandaemonium, 3 February 2020
Bonnie Greer and Laurence Fox’s chat over coffee is what used to pass for normal conduct, The Observer, 2 February 2020
Locked-down Wuhan will be a breeding ground for fear and stigma, The Observer, 2 February 2020
Sunderland to London: The geography of social division, Pandaemonium, 27 January 2020
No history, no languages… the end of humanities only deepens divides, The Observer, 26 January 2020
Depriving poor nations of drugs is a dangerous false economy, The Observer, 26 January 2020
Plucled from the web #66, Pandaemonium, 25 Jsnuary 2020
The uncomfortable truths about Roger Scruton’s conservatism, The Observer, 18 January 2020
Indian lessons for global struggles, Pandaemonium, 14 January 2020
Left and right should learn to take a joke, not censor them, The Observer, 12 January 2020
It's tempting to see India as a place apart. But it offers lessons for us all, The Observer, 11 January 2020
20 books for 2020, Pandaemonium, 11 January 2020
Whiteness, class and the white working class, Pandaemonium, 6 January 2020