Do Your Own Research: How The Far Right Captured British Politics w/ Daniel Trilling

Do Your Own Research: How The Far Right Captured British Politics w/ Daniel Trilling

Author: Novara Media May 2, 2026 Duration: 1:40:13

A decade and a half ago, the British far right was a fringe concern. But since then, the ruling party – whether it be The Conservatives or Labour – has played into their hands over and over again. Whether through appeasement or ineptitude, more than a decade of rightward drift has put Reform within reach of Downing Street.

Can anyone stop them? Is anyone actually in control? Or are the emotional forces that the far right have unleashed in the UK now too powerful for them to rein in?

Daniel Trilling is the author of If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable. He argues that to understand the ever-worsening political state of Britain, we have to look not just to the far right themselves, but to the systems of establishment power that have enabled them.

 

Do Your Own Research is a new show from Novara Media about the systems that make the modern world possible.

Music by Iglooghost.


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