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Ash Sarkar

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Ash Sarkar is a senior editor at Novara Media, and lectures in political theory at the Sandberg Instituut

March 2025

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    double quotation markThe left keeps getting identity politics wrong – and the right is benefiting from that

    Ash Sarkar
    Instead of liberation, we’ve ended up with competitive grievance, weaponised victimhood, and a focus on ‘I’ not ‘us’, says author and activist Ash Sarkar

September 2021

  • Keir Starmer

    The panel
    double quotation markThe verdict on Keir Starmer’s vision statement for Labour, The Road Ahead

    William Davies, Rafael Behr, Ash Sarkar and Caroline Molloy
    Our panel of hardworking writers has read the Labour leader’s 14,000-word essay – here’s what they think

March 2021

  • Protesters at an anti-racism demonstration in Portland Place, London, 2017.

    double quotation markJulie Burchill abused me for being Muslim – yet she was cast as the victim

    Ash Sarkar
    The columnist has apologised for her Islamophobic insults, but the issue goes way beyond her, says Ash Sarkar, a senior editor at Novara Media

December 2019

  • Couriers protesting about wages.

    double quotation markIt’s a myth that Labour has lost the working class

    Ash Sarkar
  • Jack Merritt

    double quotation markBoris Johnson’s response to the London Bridge attack is everything the victims wouldn’t want

    Ash Sarkar

November 2019

  • Labour Party General Election Manifesto Launch, Birmingham, UK - 21 Nov 2019<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by James Veysey/REX/Shutterstock (10481792bj) Jeremy Corbyn and members of the shadow cabinet at the launch of the 2019 Labour manifesto. Labour Party General Election Manifesto Launch, Birmingham, UK - 21 Nov 2019

    double quotation markBrexit? This election is about something much bigger than that

    Ash Sarkar
  • Olympic performers and volunteers dressed as NHS nurses.

    double quotation mark‘Broadband communism’? Worse was said about the founding of the NHS

    Ash Sarkar

June 2019

  • Rory Stewart at the launch of his Tory leadership campaign

    double quotation markIf you think Rory Stewart is the grownup choice, think again

    Ash Sarkar
    He may appear to be a centrists’ dream, but take a closer look at his voting record, says the journalist Ash Sarkar

May 2019

  • Jeremy Corbyn

    double quotation markCorbyn could come out fighting with a rebellious remain and reform agenda

    Ash Sarkar
    If a future manifesto comes into conflict with the EU’s rules, Labour should show it’s willing to take it on, says Ash Sarkar of Novara Media

April 2019

  • Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq

    double quotation markWhy we need to pause before claiming cultural appropriation

    Ash Sarkar
    The debate is a difficult one. Yet not every interloper is a colonialist in disguise, says Ash Sarkar, a senior editor at Novara Media

February 2019

  • Angela Smith at a press conference to announce the launch of the Independent Group, February 2019

    double quotation markAngela Smith has left Labour. Who do I complain to about her ‘funny tinge’ comment?

    Ash Sarkar
    The MP’s remark exposes the media’s double standards over racism on the left, says Ash Sarkar, a senior editor at Novara Media

December 2018

  • Gareth Southgate celebrates England's win over Sweden in the 2018 World Cup

    The panel
    double quotation markWhat were the silver linings of 2018?

    Ash Sarkar, Steven Poole, Susanna Rustin, Ammar Kalia, Mary Dejevsky, and Matthew d'Ancona
  • Pro-leave protesters in London

    double quotation markIf the remain campaign makes the same mistakes again, it will lose again

    Ash Sarkar

September 2018

  • A Labour party badge.

    double quotation markThe IHRA definition of antisemitism is a threat to free expression

    Ash Sarkar
    It is vital Labour tackles this crisis head-on – but not at the expense of its members’ solidarity with the Palestinian people, writes Novara Media editor Ash Sarkar

August 2018

  • ANTI NAZI LEAGUE RALLY IN OLDHAM.

    double quotation markThis isn’t just a culture war – we need a radical anti-fascist movement right now

    Ash Sarkar
  • Illustration of a man sitting cross-legged wearing I Love Mussolini T-shirt

    Guardian Weekend: gal-dem takeover
    double quotation markEzra Pound wrote the world’s single greatest poem, but is it wrong to love a fascist?

    Ash Sarkar

July 2018

  • Boris Johnson

    double quotation markThe colonial past is another country. Let’s leave Boris Johnson there

    Ash Sarkar
    The government is well rid of a foreign secretary who peddled grotesque fantasies, says Ash Sarkar, who lectures in political theory at Anglia Ruskin

May 2018

  • Sajid Javid, the new home secretary, leaves No 10 downing street

    double quotation markSajid Javid is not the difference we need at the Tory ministry of racism

    Ash Sarkar
    For all Javid’s identification with Windrush migrants, they can expect his ‘compliant environment’ to be just as hostile as Amber Rudd’s

March 2018

  • A single mother with her daughter in their council estate in Bristol, UK.. Image shot 2003. Exact date unknown.<br>ACDNC8 A single mother with her daughter in their council estate in Bristol, UK.. Image shot 2003. Exact date unknown.

    double quotation markLet's put the politics back into International Women's Day

    Ash Sarkar
    From housing to austerity and the pay gap, this annual event must get out of its depoliticised gender silo, writes Ash Sarkar, a senior editor at Novara Media

February 2018

  • Diane Abbott, right, and Shami Chakrabarti at the Yarl’s Wood centre last week.

    double quotation markBy demeaning refugees, Tories have caused the Yarl’s Wood hunger strike

    Ash Sarkar
    As 120 people protest over their detention and the shadow home secretary speaks out, Brandon Lewis is busy splitting hairs, writes Ash Sarkar, a senior editor at Novara Media
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