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Review: Tangled in Terror. Uprooting Islamophobia, by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi

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Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan deploys a fierce, uncompromising logic forcing us to confront colonial-based racism infecting every pore of British society. Reading it, I felt as if skeins of a web were tightening around me, challenging many of my assumptions as a non-religious, white Jewish leftie. There was no escape from the piercing gaze of this devout, revolutionary Muslim woman—a poet and activist, writer and educator.

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    Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi

    Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi is the media officer for Jewish Voice for Labour. She was elected to the Labour Party NEC in 2022, then expelled from the party.

    Articles by Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi
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This issue features a collection titled 'The 2024 UK General Election' edited by Ben Jackson, Colm Murphy and Peter Sloman, in which authors including Ross Mckibbin; Will Jennings,  Gerry Stoker, Paula Surridge, Maria Sobolewska, Mathew Lawrence and many more discuss the sources of Labour’s victory and consider how the result will shape the future of British politics. Other articles include a commentary by Deborah Mabbett on Trump's proposal to buy Greenland; 'Centralised by Design: Anglocentric Constitutionalism, Accountability and the Failure of English Devolution' by John Denham and Janice Morphet; 'Broke and Broken: The Crises Facing Local Government in England' by David Jeffery; and 'Biographies of Discontent: The Challenges Facing Labour' by Helen Goodman. A selection of book reviews feature Morgan Jones' thoughts on 'Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis' by Nick Bano, and Lyndsey Jenkins' review of 'Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century' by Laura Beers.

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