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Lecture

Trudy Gold and Tanya Gold
The Rise of Extremism in British Politics

Thursday 12.06.2025

How to watch

This lecture starts on 12 June at 7:00pm (UK).

Summary

The reform party according to the pollsters is now by far the most popular political party in the UK. What does reform stand for, who are they, and will the bubble burst? Prize-winning journalist Tanya Gold, who has covered both the hard left and the hard right for two decades, discusses with Trudy Gold.

Trudy Gold

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Trudy Gold was the CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre and a founding member of the British delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Throughout her career she taught modern Jewish history at schools, universities, and to adult groups and ran seminars on Holocaust education in the UK, Eastern Europe, and China. She also led Jewish educational tours all over the world. Trudy was the educational director of the student resources “Understanding the Holocaust” and “Holocaust Explained” and the author of The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization.

Tanya Gold

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Tanya Gold is a freelance journalist. She writes for the Spectator, the New Statesman, Harper’s Magazine, the New York Times, and others. She won feature writer of the year at the 2009 British Press Awards and arts and culture story of the year at the 2015 Foreign Press Association Awards.