The Telegraph
In the climactic scene of Sunjeev Sahota’s fourth novel, The Spoiled Heart, there’s a ferocious argument. Nayan, a leading figure in a Midlands trade union, is facing down his political rival, Megha. The difference between them, Nayan asserts, is that whereas Megha pursues a race-based politics – she defines the interests of workers by their backgrounds – Nayan thinks that such views are an “identity swizz”, and that “class should not be raced”. Sahota, the son of Punjabi immigrant shopkeepers,