Kenan Malik
@kenanmalik
Writer & Observer columnist. Latest book: Not So Black and White (Hurst). “Unsettles the pieties of contemporary race-talk” - Paul Gilroy. “A work of immense scholarship” – Jon Bloomfield. Website:
Sunday photo Sun, storm clouds and the London skyline in silhouette (taken from Shooters Hill)
Sunday photo The interior of Gaudi’s Sagrada Família, which is ne more step towards completion, its new tower receiving a Papal blessing this week.
This is a letter from ministers in the May government, promising bereaved families that “the [public] inquiry will not delay the conclusion of the Police inquiry”. Nine years on, it will still be another couple of months before the Met passes evidence files to the CPS.
Sunday photo Detail from Diego Rivera's "Detroit Industry Mural" at the Detroit Institute of Art. (Worth travelling to Detroit just to see this; it's astonishing.)
Unfortunate (but predictable) that the focus of the debate about @NickKristof article has become mostly about “dog rape” rather than broader questions of Israeli treatment of Palestinian prisoners. On that, two recent reports from www.btselem.org/sites/defaul... www.btselem.org/sites/defaul...
Sunday photo Parliament building in Budapest at night reflected in the moat outside (and entirely random choice today 😂)
So, if America’s war does not go the way it wants, the excuses are already in. The problem is the Iranian people.
Sunday photo A southern double-collared sunbird in mid-song (taken in the Botanical Gardens, Cape Town)
Dropped into the Scottish National Portrait Gallery while in Edinburgh, which I’d never visited before. It’s tremendous, both the building and the collection. This is Alexander Moffat’s painting, the “Poet’s Pub”.
The argument now seems to be “It’s your fault if you are shot dead attempting to hold a coercive state body to account”.
Sunday photo Memorial to the Holocaust on Grosse Hamburger Strasse, Berlin
Guess it shouldn’t surprise us that the richest man in the world should agree that apartheid and white minority rule represent “high civilization”.