How The British Made The Far Right Acceptable / Daniel Trilling

About this episode

Daniel Trilling discusses his book on how the British establishment has made the far right acceptable.

Journalist and author Daniel Trilling returns to This Is Hell! to talk about his new book “If We Tolerate This: How the British establishment made the far right respectable”, published by Pan Macmillan. This is Daniel’s fourth appearance on the show. Daniel was shortlisted for the 2022 and 2023 Orwell Prizes, for his writing focused on homelessness, human rights and politics. His work has also been shortlisted for the Political Book Awards and the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Daniel is also an associate lecturer in journalism at London College of Communication, where he helps with the Refugee Journalism Project, a training and mentoring scheme for exiled media workers in the UK, which you can learn more about at refugeejournalismproject.org. Link to purchase Daniel Trilling's new book https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/daniel-trilling/if-we-tolerate-this/9781037411571 We will have new installments of Rotten History and Hangover Cure. We will also be sharing your answers to this week's Question from Hell! from Patreon. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

People in this episode

Host: This Is Hell!

Guest: Daniel Trilling

Topics covered

• far right
• British establishment
• journalism
• politics
• human rights
• homelessness

Keywords

• far right
• British establishment
• Daniel Trilling
• journalism
• politics
• human rights
• homelessness
• book
• interview

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pan Macmillan, London College of Communication, Refugee Journalism Project

Books & works: If We Tolerate This: How the British establishment made the far right respectable

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