Five Great Reads: on misunderstanding protest songs, chronic illness, the way we spend

Protest songs create ‘a notional place’, writes Nesrine Malik, ‘disembodied from wretched reality, that nurtures solace, bravado and connection between a scattered and uprooted people’.Protest songs create ‘a notional place’, writes Nesrine Malik, ‘disembodied from wretched reality, that nurtures solace, bravado and connection between a scattered and uprooted people’.Good morning. I’m back again with the stories from around the Guardian this week that most got me thinking.

“The passing of this culture into mainstream English language discourse since 7 October has reduced the words within it to literal meanings, projected on to them by observers with little knowledge of their history and nuances,” Malik writes, tracing the collective warping of terms such as “intifada” or the phrase, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”.

“In the light of 7 October, it is understandable that, to some, expressions of Palestinian uprising and claims to land take on a threatening pall. But the story of these terms and chants is much longer than the one condensed and condemned over the past seven months.”“They create a notional place, disembodied from wretched reality, that nurtures solace, bravado and connection between a scattered and uprooted people who aspire to something you and I take for granted: statehood.

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