Zia Haider Rahman

Not Another Brexit Jeremiad

The sociological explanation for why I now feel closer to Britain might be that by confronting all Britons with this variety of native British identities, Brexit has created space for other British identities.

The Assault on Reason

Whataboutism is only a deflection. But it succeeds as a political strategy because not everyone grasps the irrelevance; not everyone understands the importance of good reasoning.

The Novelist’s Complicity

Today, reading has strong competition from screens. If novelists are relinquishing the very things that are exclusively the province of the novel, then they are complicit in the demise of the novel.