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Daniel Trilling

Daniel Trilling is the author of Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe and Bloody Nasty People: the Rise of Britain’s Far Right

April 2024

  • An overcrowded boat of migrants in the film Io Capitano (2023)

    The EU’s new migration pact is intended to neutralise the far right – it risks empowering it

    Daniel Trilling
    With a heavy focus on deterrence, the agreement shows how far Europe’s centre has shifted to the right, says author Daniel Trilling

November 2023

  • Supreme Court Rwanda Ruling, London, UK - 15 Nov 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Justin Griffiths-Williams/Shutterstock (14211747a) The Supreme Court rules the UK government's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda unlawful. Supreme Court Rwanda Ruling, London, UK - 15 Nov 2023

    In the defeat of the Rwanda plan, the entire Tory project lies in tatters

    Daniel Trilling
    Not just morally objectionable but stupid, the scheme is representative of years of Conservative rule, says author Daniel Trilling
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    The Audio Long Read
    ‘Incoherence and inconsistency’: the inside story of the Rwanda deportation plan – podcast

    There were so many warnings it would fail. How did it get this far?
  • The Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland.

    Book of the day
    How Migration Really Works by Hein de Haas review – home truths

    A powerful debunking of myths about global migration, and an indictment of the political dishonesty that generates them

October 2023

  • collage illustration depicting the Rwanda deportation plan, featuting: Suella Braverman, Paul Kagame, Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak in front of a podium that reads 'Stop the Boats', Dominic Raab, small boats crossing the Channel, protesters with placards opposing the deportation policy

    The long read
    ‘Incoherence and inconsistency’: the inside story of the Rwanda deportation plan

    The long read: There were so many warnings it would fail. How did it get this far?

September 2023

  • A Golden Dawn rally in Athens in 2014. Photograph: Yannis Kolesidis

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Golden Dawn: the rise and fall of Greece’s neo-Nazis – podcast

    From 2020: A decade ago, violent racists exploited a national crisis and entered mainstream politics in Greece. The party is now crumbling – but its success remains a warning

August 2023

  • People carrying bags walking up the gangway into the Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge, at the quayside at Portland Port in Portland

    Today in Focus
    The Bibby Stockholm saga

    After removing asylum seekers from the Bibby Stockholm barge on Friday, the government says they will be returned ‘as soon as possible’. Daniel Trilling and Sammy Gecsoyler report

May 2023

  • FILE - Migrants arrive with a dinghy accompanied by a Frontex vessel at the village of Skala Sikaminias, on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey, on Feb. 28, 2020. European Union lawmakers approved on Thursday, April 20, 2023 a series of proposals aimed at ending the years-long standoff over how best to manage migration, a conundrum that has provoked one of the bloc's biggest political crises. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas, File)

    One EU policy the Tories are happy to emulate: cracking down on refugees

    Daniel Trilling
    Greece, Bulgaria and Poland have been accused of forcibly turning away migrants – at terrible human cost, says author Daniel Trilling

February 2023

  • Knowsley protest<br>Police outside the Suites Hotel in Knowsley, Merseyside, after protestors demonstrated against asylum seekers staying at the hotel on Friday evening. Officers in Prescot, Knowsley, were dealing with two groups of protesters after a demonstration descended into chaos outside the Suites Hotel in Ribblers Lane. Picture date: Saturday February 11, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLICE Knowsley. Photo credit should read: Peter Powell/PA Wire

    When asylum seekers are attacked, don’t be surprised: the UK system ensures that will happen

    Daniel Trilling
    The violence in Knowsley is symptomatic of a dysfunctional approach that makes vulnerable refugees even more vulnerable, says author Daniel Trilling

November 2022

  • Protesters demonstrate outside the detention centre. (Photo by Martin Pope/Getty Images)

    Today in Focus
    What the scandal at Manston asylum centre reveals about our migration system

    For the last six weeks conditions at a centre housing people who made perilous journeys across the Channel on small boats have been making the headlines. The home secretary, Suella Braverman, has pointed the finger at a ‘broken’ system. But why is the Home Office so often at the centre of a crisis?

August 2022

  • Flooding Situation in Lake Baringo, Nakuru, Kenya - 16 Oct 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by James Wakibia/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock (12543784h) A view of a submerged Roberts Camp after the unprecedented rise of water levels in Lake Baringo. The flooding situation in Rift Valley lakes exacerbated by climate change has led to displacement of thousands of people from their homes and work. There are growing calls for world leaders to put more effort in addressing the effects of climate change. Communities living near the catchment areas in the global south are the most affected. Flooding Situation in Lake Baringo, Nakuru, Kenya - 16 Oct 2021

    Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval review – humanity on the move

    Environmental journalist Gaia Vince presents methods by which we could stave off self-inflicted extinction and come to terms with climate displacement

June 2022

  • Home secretary Priti Patel addresses MPs in the House of Commons, 15 June 2022.

    The Tories may relish a fight over Rwanda deportations, but that doesn’t mean they will win

    Daniel Trilling
    To succeed, the government must not only upset the left but also deter asylum seekers, says author Daniel Trilling

May 2022

  • LAMPEDUSA, ITALY - MAY 24: A woman cries after losing her baby in the water as she sits in a rescue boat from the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) 'Phoenix' vessel on May 24, 2017 off Lampedusa, Italy. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Five myths about the refugee crisis – podcast

    This week, from 2018: The cameras have gone – but the suffering endures. Daniel Trilling deconstructs the beliefs that still shape policy and public opinion

March 2022

  • A protestor in the UK holds up a banner in support of Ukranian refugees.

    The Home Office is incapable of doing the right thing – even when it wants to

    Daniel Trilling
    Anti-immigrant hostility runs through the department, as desperate Ukrainians are now finding out to their cost, says the author Daniel Trilling

January 2022

  • Kill The Bill Protest in London, UK - 17 Jan 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Belinda Jiao/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock (12764701b) Protestors hold placards during the demonstration. A protest was held outside the House of Lords regarding the Policing and Crime Bill (PACE), as it enters voting stage by the Lords. 'Kill the Bill' is a movement in the UK in response to the government's proposal of the Policing and Crime Bill. If passed, the Bill would confer upon the MET police widened power to suppress protests, which could result in a massive curtailing of rights in a democracy, including the freedom of speech, of expression and of protest. To stop the law from being passed through the legislature, numerous protests have been held under the slogan 'Kill the Bill' as a demand for the Bill to be dropped. Kill The Bill Protest in London, UK - 17 Jan 2022

    As the tide of populism recedes, is it taking our civil liberties with it?

    Daniel Trilling
    If Tory legislation is left unchallenged, it won’t just be the right to protest that ordinary Britons will lose, says author Daniel Trilling

December 2021

  • A protest in London against government plans to deport people to Jamaica, February 2020.

    ‘Foreign criminals’ are just an excuse: the Tories are trying to take away rights from all of us

    Daniel Trilling
    The idea that the UK is not deporting enough people is a convenient justification for overhauling the Human Rights Act, says author Daniel Trilling

November 2021

  • A migrants makeshift camp is set up in Calais, northern France, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021. At the makeshift camps outside Calais, migrants are digging in, waiting for the chance to make a dash across the English Channel despite the news that at least 27 people died this week when their boat sank a few miles from the French coast. (AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh)

    Draconian border security doesn’t work and costs lives. Why is Britain pushing it?

    Daniel Trilling
    Our politicians say they want to stop smuggling. What they mean is they want to stop migration, says author Daniel Trilling
  • Actors Andrew Scott, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Ben Aldridge volunteer at a Choose Love shop in London, December 2019.

    Choose Love cutting back Calais funding shows the limits of celebrity philanthropy

    Daniel Trilling
    Blame not the rich and famous for their charity efforts – but governments for refusing to provide basic aid, says writer Daniel Trilling
  • Border guards are seen guarding Afghan refugees at the Polish and Belarusian border, August 2021.

    Dark things are happening on Europe’s borders. Are they a sign of worse to come?

    Daniel Trilling
    With a disregard for people’s lives, countries from the UK to Poland are toughening up, as if in preparation for climate displacement, says author Daniel Trilling

October 2021

  • European lorries parked in Dover, last month.

    Britain is learning the hard way that migration can’t be turned on or off like a tap

    Daniel Trilling
    The Tories assumed that people from less wealthy countries were desperate to come to the UK for work – that wasn’t the case, says author Daniel Trilling
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