In 1997, Trevor Phillips invited a wandering vampire in for tea. As Chair of the Runnymede Trust think tank, he popularised (without coining) the term Islamophobia in a report examining hostility towards Islam and Muslims. His intentions were noble and historically, whenever he’s made public interventions on matters of prejudice, he’s striven to be measured and thoughtful, and to get his facts straight.
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Helen Dale won the Miles Franklin Award for The Hand that Signed the Paper and read law at Oxford. Her most recent novel is Kingdom of the Wicked.
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