The term has skyrocketed in use in recent months among the very online far right, the ecosystem that gave rise to the candidacy of the 31-year-old investment banker and political outsider.

A 21st-century-record number of seats are opening, and races will be raucous and crowded, reflecting both parties’ ideological, stylistic and generational tensions.

Ali Milani, who chairs the Labour Muslim Network: “We are very clear that any definition of Islamophobia must include the element of racialisation and that Islamophobia is a form of racism that ...

It was as if Eid came a month early. Families thronged the streets, voters reconvened with friends in voting centres, snacked on street-side delicacies from the few hawkers who opened shop, proudly ...