If We Tolerate This

by Daniel Trilling, Unknown Author

The language of the far right is now in the mouths of our mainstream political leaders, from Labour to the Conservatives.

In 2025 we saw the biggest far right march in Britain's history, after a summer of flag-waving protest. The year before, racist mobs tried to attack mosques and hotels housing asylum-seekers.

Something incredibly dangerous has been unleashed and yet our political class seems at best indifferent and at worst to welcome it.

In this short, urgent and brilliantly illuminating book Daniel Trilling explains how we arrived at this extraordinary moment and what we can do to change course before it's too late.

Praise for Daniel

'Racism and the rise of the far-right in Britain are often discussed but rarely understood. Daniel Trilling is an exception . . . his voice must be heard' – Owen Jones, author of The Demonization of the Working Class

'Combining forensic enquiry with moral passion, Daniel Trilling has emerged as one of our most intrepid and resourceful reporters' – Pankaj Mishra, Windham-Campbell Prize-winning author of The World After Gaza

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Audiobook

Hardcover

About the author

Daniel Trilling is the Editor of New Humanist magazine and has reported extensively on refugees in Europe. His work has been published in the London Review of Books, Guardian, New York Times and others, and won a 2017 Migration Media Award. His first book, Bloody Nasty People: The Rise of Britian’s Far Right, was longlisted for the 2013 Orwell Prize. He lives in London.

Reviews

[Andy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Important reading to understand the current space of the UK, it’s politics, and how we got here. On the surface it is all information already in the public domain, but it is the workings, the detail and the consequences which are very well laid out here.

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read and share if only for the section linking the current state of uk immigration problems directly to the austerity inflicted on the UK by the George Osbourne. Get out and vote. Division is not the answer. Also, if a party is not receptive to one group of people then they’ll do it again to another. There’s always another scapegoat

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars
An insightful, informative, and well written look into the current UK political climate and how far right ideologies are seeping into the mainstream.

[Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very insightful and informative book.

[Wainepat · Rating 3 out of 5]

An important book that covers how some of the arguments of what was/ is the far right is now semi mainstream and adopted by both Labour and Conservative MPs. The book is very good at outlining the process of how this came about and again is short on solutions. There is a need to inspire hope into the challenges of the fascist movement. Working people need to see confidence being injected into left arguments against the far right. We need to mobilise to defeat the fascists as we did in the past or a dark future is before us.The book fails in that area. I remember Tony Benn used say that socialists needed to keep two flames burning. The flames of Anger and hope. Anger against injustice and the flame of hope that we can build a better world.

[Sheila · Rating 5 out of 5]

Succinct, easy to understand, important book.

[Fleur Currie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such an important well researched book presented in such an engaging way.

[Matthew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good recap or primer on how we got to the current political moment in the UK