Daniel Trilling

One of the most striking images in Resistance, Steve McQueen’s survey of protest photography in 20th-century Britain (at Modern Two in Edinburgh until 4 January), is a blurry, black and white shot of Christabel Pankhurst, Flora Drummond and Emmeline Pankhurst in the dock at Bow Street Magistrates’ Court in 1908. The three suffragettes, on trial for incitement to disorder for a...

One​ way of thinking about fascism is to see it as historically specific: a reactionary mass movement produced by the economic and social chaos that engulfed Europe after the First World War. Fascism promised national rebirth through the violent cleansing of enemies at home and conquest abroad; to achieve this required public consent to the undoing of democracy. Where fascism took root, it...

Irecently came across​ a Labour Party pamphlet from 2010. ‘Every one of us needs to roll up our sleeves and get to work to build strong and tolerant communities,’ it reads, ‘arguing the case for the politics of solidarity and hope, as opposed to the politics of division and defeat.’ It was among the papers I’d gathered while working on a book about the British...

Andy Seaman​ felt out of place when, on 26 May 2022, he walked into the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith. Andy has little connection to Ireland; he’s from East London and his family’s roots are in Dominica. But earlier that day he had heard on the radio that the centre was hosting an event run by the organisation Troubles, Tragedy and Trauma. He told me that he felt...