Sunak represents a figure for whom it is religious, cultural, or civilisational rather than racial identity that matters. But this identity cannot remain confined to the UK.

It was typical of Gandhi to bring opposites together, by noting that the very experience of hatred had made love possible by allowing Indians to take responsibility for their own actions and so the future.

Ishrat Akhond, a woman in the restaurant, refused even to identify herself as Muslim and court release. She abjured Islam itself as a global identity and mission, and in doing so recovered her particularity as a Muslim.

Is the kind of history written by young scholars like Venkat Dhulipala going to be reduced to waging old wars with equally ageing analytical equipment?

Some of the hostile reaction to 'Poetry of the Taliban' makes it clear that any attempt to humanize the militant is likely to be condemned as a way of “sympathising” with his cause.