Daniel Trilling is one of the UK’s leading experts on the politics of the Right. He is the author of Bloody Nasty People: The Rise of Britain’s Far Right, Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe, and If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable.

June 04, 2026

• Daniel Trilling

The British Right Is Weaponizing Henry Nowak’s Killing

After white 18-year-old university student Henry Nowak was stabbed and then arrested as he lay dying, the UK’s far right seized on the case. Jacobin spoke to chronicler of the British right Daniel Trilling about what it reveals.