Woke 2.0, Nesrine Malik and the podcast on race, Gaza and politics

Race is the issue dominating political debate today, according to the introduction to the latest episode of Radical Thinking, the Guardian podcast hosted by Aditya Chakrabortty.¹² The guest is Nesrine Malik, a columnist for the paper, who discusses where the West’s culture wars and the real wars in the Middle East have left people of colour.¹²

What Malik and Chakrabortty talk about

In the introduction, Chakrabortty describes Malik as a voice who was ahead of others in reading how immigrants, their children and their grandchildren are changing not only politics but Western societies.¹² One of the topics is Gaza and the way it has transformed politics in Britain and the United States.¹² Chakrabortty cites a column by Malik from November 2023 and an article of hers on the war and Labour from October 2023.¹² They also discuss “identity politics”, which Chakrabortty describes as a phrase used only against ethnic minorities.¹² Among the host’s recommended reading are Malik’s book We Need New Stories, which in his view is worth rereading, and a more recent piece on the obituaries written for “Woke 1.0”.¹² Left out of the episode is the civil war in Sudan, to which Malik has devoted a long report on the Khartoum she grew up in.¹²

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Footnotes

1. Why Woke 2.0 is taking on Trump and establishment politics | Nesrine Malik | Radical Thinking podcast, Latest news, sport and opinion from the Guardian, 2026-11-07 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

2. Why Woke 2.0 is taking on Trump and establishment politics | Nesrine Malik | Radical Thinking, Latest news, sport and opinion from the Guardian, 2026-11-07 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸