HOME
ABOUT
INTRODUCTION
EVENTS
BOOKS
CONTACT
twitter

Pandaemonium

Main menu

Skip to content

HOME
ABOUT

Tag: london 2012

Show Grid Show List

Post navigation

I AM TRIBAL ABOUT SPORT, NOT PATRIOTIC ABOUT BRITAIN

August 10, 2012 by Kenan Malik

How times change. There I was sitting in the Olympic stadium with my daughter. She had red, white and blue braids in her hair and was enthusiastically waving a Union Jack. When I was her age I would far rather have burned the flag than waved it. The Union Jack was then the property of jingoists and Empire loyalists, on the one hand, and of neo-fascists on the other. If I saw a pub or a housing estate with Union […]

Categories: Britain, Culture & Books, Sport • Tags: britishness, identity politics, london 2012, multiculturalism, nationalism, olympics, patriotism, sports

5

I WILL PUT UP WITH EVEN THIS CIRCUS FOR THAT BOB BEAMON MOMENT

July 26, 2012 by Kenan Malik

As an aspiring teenage middle distance runner I once dreamed of competing at the Olympics. I grew up in the golden age of British middle distance running in the 1970s and 1980s. My hero was Steve Ovett, the bad boy of British athletics, arch rival and arch contrast to Sebastian Coe, the smooth establishment figure, whose destiny it always was to become first a Conservative MP and then the organizer of the 2012 London games. I was never either good enough […]

Categories: Britain, Sport • Tags: bob beamon, london 2012, nadia comaneci, olympics, sports, usain bolt

4

Post navigation

WELCOME TO PANDAEMONIUM

I am a writer, lecturer and broadcaster. My latest book is The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics.

Pandaemonium is a place for my writings, talks and photography. It thrives on debate. So welcome, and do join in.

Kenan Malik

‘A riveting political history… Impeccably researched, brimming with detail, yet razor-sharp in its argument.’
Lisa Appignanesi, Independent

'Few writers have untangled the paradoxes and unintended consequences of political Islam as deftly as Malik does here.'
Maureen Freely,
Washington Post

Buy it!.