Fifteen years ago, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi famously declared that Islamophobia had passed the “dinner-table test”.
For Policy Exchange, a right-wing think-tank that is notoriously opaque about its funders, contempt for Muslims has been on the menu for considerably longer than that.
Last month, Policy Exchange released two reports on a new phenomenon that it is calling “Islamopopulism”, and whose supposed rise can be seen in the recent local election results.
I could spend considerable time dissecting the more than 100 pages of repetitive, meandering, and largely vacuous material contained in these reports. I will not, because that would be a waste of everyone’s time, including my own.
What I will say is this: I made the mistake of searching those pages for an actual definition of “Islamopopulism”.
