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The paperback version of Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance is out now! It includes the amazing stories from the hardback but with a new afterword detailing how the far right shut down its promotional events last year. Need some hope in these difficult times? Order here: geni.us/RebelSoundsP...

‘Greedy and ruthless’ businessman fined over a man’s death among Reform UK’s latest donors. New from @hopenothate.org.uk hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/24/g...

"Without the knowledge and without the critical thinking skills instilled by print, many of the citizens of modern democracies find themselves as helpless and as credulous as medieval peasants." Thoughts on the post-literate society by James Marriott. jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

The paperback version of Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance with a new afterword is out this Thursday! The same day as @richardosman1.bsky.social new Thursday Murder Club book. Sure its a close race in the charts so help me out! 😂 geni.us/RebelSoundsP...

The paperback version of Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance is out on 25 September for the very reasonable price of £10.99. It includes a new afterword and is available for preorder from all bookshops now!

🚨 Yesterday we saw Britain’s largest ever far-right protest with police estimating 110,000 people in attendance for Tommy Robinson's “Unite the Kingdom” rally. Read our analysis of the day with all the details of just how extreme it really was. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/13/b...

The paperback version of Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance is out on 25 September for the very reasonable price of £10.99. It includes a new afterword and is available for preorder from all bookshops now!

Is it fair to call the Unite The Kingdom march far right? 🎥 @joemulhall.bsky.social, HOPE not Hate's Director of Research spoke to the BBC on why it's important to monitor who is at the event and what is being said.

Today saw Britain’s largest ever far-right protest with police estimating 110,000 people in attendance for Tommy Robinson's “Unite the Kingdom” rally. Read @hopenothate.org.uk's analysis of the day with all the details of just how extreme it really was! hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/13/b...

Tommy Robinson and his friends at Rebel News couldn’t resist a final grift before his big rally on September 13th. 50 of his most ‘devoted’ followers are paying up to £4,099 for what looks like the worst school trip ever, complete with museums and allocated leisure time.

More from Reform UK's recent conference. The homophobic aristocrat on Reform’s main stage. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/10/r...

So @hopenothate.org.uk got inside Reform's conference and found a party riven by internal divisions, extreme views, and, perhaps most notably of all, a swirl of conspiracy theories. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/10/i...

Tommy Robinson and Rebel Media have turned grifting into an art form. Rebel News is charging its most ‘devoted’ followers up to £4,099 to attend the demonstration this weekend. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/12/i...

🚨Last weekend, Reform UK held their party conference in Birmingham, and as expected, it was a magnet to a range of conspiracy theories and wild, fringe ideas. 🧲 hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/10/i...

Reform and X are not Britain, as John Curtice shows, though this loud minority voice thinks it is Migration bad for economy? 32% of public - but 73% of Reform Bad for our culture? 31% of public - 81% of Reform Rights for ethnic minorities have gone too far? 18% of public - but 49% of Reform

Lots of media coverage about the huge number of anti-migrant protests happening this weekend. It's obviously worrying but perspective is important. Across all the demos that happened today there were probably fewer than 1000 protestors combined. It's not a national outpouring.

Union Jacks and St George’s crosses are going up on lampposts across the UK. The Daily Mail called those behind it an “army of patriots.” But the truth is very different. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/22/o...

New from @hopenothate.org.uk. ‘Operation Raise the Colours’ Organised by Well-Known Far-Right Extremists. While many instances of flags being raised are being carried out by ordinary people, many of the key organisers are well known far right activists. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/22/o...

💥NEW: Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf promised “an embarrassment of talent.” So far, the embarrassment is showing. The talent? Still missing. 🔎 hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/21/r...

I was lucky enough to write an article about The Resistible Rise of the Reform UK for the new edited volume, The Starmer Symptom put together for @plutopress.bsky.social. Out now! www.plutobooks.com/978074535109...

HOPE not hate can reveal that Lee Twamley, photographed at the front of Britain First’s “March for Remigration” in Manchester this month, has served prison time for trying to smuggle Vietnamese migrants into the UK. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/19/e...

The British Movement’s North West Nazi Network Exposed. @hopenothate.org.uk reveals their core activists! hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/06/t...

Meet the MAGA misogynist speaker at Britain First rallies. BF's decision to ignore Mannarino’s disgusting statements about women are indicative of a broader willingness to ignore any sexism which can’t contribute to a racist narrative. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/07/b...

Tommy Robinson has been clear, he didn’t go on the run. But has Konstantin Kisin revealed that to be a lie? hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/11/h...

🚨NEW: Tommy Robinson has been clear, he didn’t go on the run. But has Konstantin Kisin revealed that to be a lie? hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/11/h...

🚨NEW: Britain First says it wants to defend women and children. So why do they keep handing the mic to Joey Mannarino, a MAGA troll who says rape victims lie and liberal women “beg to be raped?” hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/07/b...

🚨 Earlier this year, the leaders of neo-Nazi group Patriotic Alternative made an “explosive” announcement. Mark Collett, the self-described “Nazi sympathiser”, and his deputy Laura Towler described a ruse they had apparently pulled over the Electoral Commission. But it was a lie.

🚨 HOPE not hate can name the activists reviving the UK’s most openly neo-Nazi group and bringing dangerous new tactics to the streets. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/06/t...

These new images of the total obliteration of whole areas in Gaza are beyond words. You can see why Israel has prevented international journalists entering Gaza to report on these indefensible scenes. www.itv.com/news/2025-08...

Tommy Robinson arrested over alleged assault at London station. “He was arrested on suspicion of GBH (Grievous Bodily Harm) and will now be taken to custody for questioning.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

New from me and @harryshukman.bsky.social: The leaders of the neo-Nazi group Patriotic Alternative have been caught lying yet again. We expose the incredible lengths they went to in order to NOT get registered as a political party: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/04/r...

This week we’re reflecting on the 2024 riots — the horrific murders of three young children, the grief that followed, the lies that led to days of violence, and the lessons we need to learn to move forward. 🔗 Explore the series: hopenothate.org.uk/riots-one-year

Worryingly, one year on, the conditions that led to the riots remain. The anger and prejudice, the polarised and struggling communities, the energised and active far right, are all still in place. hopenothate.org.uk/seven-days-r...

Thread: The Online Safety Act is far from perfect but much of the current debate is clearly driven by people who either haven't read it or don't understand it. The Act DOES NOT include a general duty for platforms to remove or mitigate LEGAL content for adults. (1)

When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups

Buzzing to get the chance to write this article for Songlines Magazine about some of my favourite records I wrote about in my book Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance.

I’ve been monitoring protests outside asylum seeker accommodation all weekend. Of the 11 announced protests only Epping, Norwich, Leeds and Canary Wharf got more than a handful of people and all combined was probably little over 1000 ppl. Still worrying but important not to frame as a mass uprising!

Was on the @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social show on @lbc.co.uk discussing the protests in Epping last week. Made the point that while known far-right activists are involved, we need to look at the role of mainstream politicians and media to understand where anti-asylum seeker prejudice is coming from.

Don't forget to book your bus from Hull to the Tommy Robinson demonstration in London for the bargain price of just £60. Thats a mere £45 more expensive than National Express or Megabus. 😂

Gaza: ‘We have 6,000 trucks of aid we can’t bring in’ says UNRWA www.channel4.com/news/gaza-we...

If you're interested in details about far-right involvement in the disturbances in Epping then check out this briefing by the @hopenothate.org.uk team. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/07/21/b...

Fascinating visit to the Resistance and Deportation History Centre in Lyon to learn more about the resistance to and collaboration with fascism in France as well as the deportation of Jews and the later trial of Klaus Barbie, head of the Gestapo in Lyon.

🚨The Great British National Protest is back in the public eye again with an event this weekend at Dover Beach. The man behind the movement is Richard Donaldson. So, who is he and what does he want?👇 hopenothate.org.uk/2025/07/17/m...

Very excited to get the chance to write about 10 amazing resistance songs for Songlines Magazine. Hard copies are in shops from tomorrow with an amazing free CD www.songlines.co.uk/features/reb...

If you want more proof that Reform is all talk and posturing read this. For all their big talk about opposing green energy projects in Lincolnshire they didn't even turn up to their own meeting about solar panels. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/07/16/r...

🚨NEW: Paul Nuttall is now Reform UK’s vice chair. Over the years, claims under his name included: – Tranmere Rovers footballer ❌ – Doctorate in History ❌ – Charity board member ❌ Most didn’t stand up to scrutiny. We dig in 👇 hopenothate.org.uk/2025/07/03/w...

🚨NEW: Paul Nuttall is now Reform UK’s vice chair. Over the years, claims under his name included: – Tranmere Rovers footballer ❌ – Doctorate in History ❌ – Charity board member ❌ Most didn’t stand up to scrutiny. We dig in. #paulnuttallfacts