How the British media made the far right acceptable

6 May 2026, Online, 6:30PM BST

Daniel Trilling, Nesrine Malik

The far right is no longer on the fringes of British politics. In the summer of 2025, Britain witnessed the largest far-right rally in its history, following a wave of racist mob violence targeting mosques and hotels housing asylum seekers. In his urgent new book, If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable, the journalist and author Daniel Trilling traces the political and cultural decisions that brought us to this extraordinary and dangerous moment.

In this online event, Trilling is joined by the award-winning columnist Nesrine Malik to discuss how mainstream institutions enabled the rise of the far right, and what meaningful resistance might look like.

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