Radio 43 | Episode 55 | Undercover inside the Basketweavers

“Do I want to be an MP? Do I want to spend every Friday for the next five years in Clacton?” Thus spoke Nigel Farage in an interview with The Times in February 2024, about which the reporter wrote: “His expression suggests not.”Just months later Farage joined Reform UK as leader and decided he did want to be a MP after all - even if he still wasn’t planning on spending much time in the constituency, Clacton-on-Sea, which elected him on 4 July 2024.One year on from his election, Farage’s report card has come in. And it’s not looking good for the Reform UK leader… 

While the involvement of Lords, former MPs and councillors in the Great British PAC might give it a respectable appearance, HOPE not hate analysis shows the pressure group is packed with extremists, with thirteen members of its team having promoted far right views online, including one who shared pro-Hitler and antisemitic content and another who posted racist comments about the IQ of ethnic minorities.You can read the full report as well as our other work in combating extremism by visiting www.hopenothate.org.uk

The Basketweavers could be the most important far-right network you have never heard of. Operating in the shadows, it is an interconnected group of extremists who want to build their own society away from the mainstream.HOPE not hate sent an undercover reporter into the Basketweavers in 2022-2023. This is the report, featuring an eyewitness account from our undercover reporter.To read the full report, as well as learn about our other work opposing the far right, you can visit www.hopenothate.org.uk.

Welcome to Radio 43, the antifascism podcast from HOPE not hate.This episode covers recent developments in the neo-Nazi British Movement and exposes the group’s links to Brogan Stewart, convicted of a terror plot last month. We also take a look at White Vanguard, a tiny but extreme neo-Nazi youth group linked to the BM.📰 Read the full investigation on our site: 👉 https://hopenothate.org.uk/2025/06/06/the-british-movement-dawn-raids-terror-plots-and-nazi-youth-groups/Thanks to you all for listening. Don't forget to subscribe for regular updates. 

Tommy Robinson lied. HOPE not hate set out to prove it, and we did. In this special episode of the podcast, HNH's CEO, Nick Lowles, and Director of Research, Dr Joe Mulhall, sit down to discuss the story of the long battle to prove that Robinson broke a legal injunction that means he now faces prison.When you've finished the episode, check out the long-read here.--♪ Alone (Prod. by Lukrembo) Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLXLhOyo-2w&t=0s

HOPE not hate has today released its annual State of Hate report, titled ‘Pessimism, Decline and a Rising Radical Right’.It is *the* go-to place for analysis of the far right, growing trends, fresh investigations and up-to-date profiles of all the key figures and groups. There’s nothing else out there like it.On this episode of the podcast, Nick and Joe go over the broad takeaways from the report before having an in depth discussion on the topic of the growing Radical Right influence in the Conservative Party. This is an important story which reflects the growing toxicity in mainstream politics. The pair talk about where this group has come from, what it exists to achieve and how big an influence it, and its associated media environment, has on our politics.To close, they touch on two other stories, the first is a new investigation into a member of the Patriotic Alternative splinter group, The Homeland Party, who is Chair of a Community Council near Dundee. The other is a disturbing article into the extremism of a far-right commentator named Steve Laws. Both blogs are linked in the comments, and should be approached with caution.Cheers,X—LINKS:State of Hate 2024Jamie Brown from HomelandThe Extremism of Steve LawsPromoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF

Welcome to the Radio 43 podcast from HOPE not hate, the antifascism show.Nick and Joe sit down for the first episode of 2024 to discuss:HNH’s new investigation into GB News owner Paul Marshall who we’ve caught sharing and liking really extreme stuff from an anonymised Twitter accountHNH’s new investigation into the West Midlands branch of the Patriotic Alternative splinter group, The Homeland Party. It’s full of really extreme charactersA quick-fire round-up of news from across the far-right this yearHOPE not hate’s 2024 edition of our State of Hate report comes out in a few weeks and we have been absolutely slammed with that, so big apologies for not getting an episode out sooner this year.Thanks to you all for listening.— LINKS:Paul Marshall investigationWest Midlands branch of Homeland investigation

On Thursday 23rd November, a 49-year-old Irish citizen, originally from Algeria but who had lived in Ireland for 20 years, committed a heinous knife attack on children at a primary school in Parnell Square East in Dublin.Quickly, far-right and anti-migrant activists and agitators turned to social media, spreading a range of misinformation about the attack, including that the perpetrator was an illegal immigrant.Within hours Dublin was ablaze, as rioters set police cars, buses and a tram alight and looted shops, causing over an estimated €10 million of damage.But how did this happen? Is the Irish far-right larger and stronger than previously thought? And how do antifascists and Irish society more broadly respond to such a violent outburst?To discuss this, and events in Dublin in more detail, we welcome the historian and author, Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc, onto the podcast.N.B. - During the course of the podcast, "The Diggers" are mentioned at one point. This ought to have been "The Levellers".—Pádraig has written several books on the Irish Civil War.- Several are available through Mercier Press.- Pádraig’s forthcoming book on political violence in Ireland (published Feb 2024) will be available through Merrion Press.—SUPPORT HOPE NOT HATE:If you’d like to support HOPE not hate, why not pick up some merch from our online shop?—🔊 "nyoko - Flowing Into The Darkness" is under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0).  Soundcloud:  / redowthered   Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://bit.ly/b-into-darkness 

On Armistice Day, 2000 far right activists and football hooligans descended on London under the guise of "defending" the Cenotaph from pro-Palestine demonstrators. 10 days ago, Britain's hooligan chat groups were filled with the usual discussion of football and beer. But they quickly mobilised as the (now former) Home Secretary Braverman branded  pro-Palestine demonstrations as "hate marches", and as the The Daily Mail and Douglas Murray suggested the Cenotaph was under threat. All this coupled with Tommy Robinson's return to X, and his calls for a new anti-Islam far right street movement.The result: chaos on the streets of London, as far right activists and football hooligans battled police and attempted to confront Pro-Palestine demonstrators.HOPE not hate had teams on the ground and embedded within the far right all day, feeding live information about what exactly was going on and where.HOPE not hate's CEO, Nick Lowles, makes an appearance on Radio 43 to give us the full run-through of the precursors to the carnage, how the itself day panned out, and what the backlash has been for those on the march and for Tommy Robinson himself. With over 100 arrests already and presumably many more to come as police trawl through footage, it's looking as though Saturday will go down as another costly moment for Britain's far right.LINKS:Here's our analysis of how the hooligan chat groups turned to threats of violence.If you value our research and intelligence operations, please consider supporting HOPE not hate.Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate Registered office Suite 1, 7th Floor, 50 Broadway, London SW1H 0BL, United Kingdom.

On this episode, Nick and Joe discuss what is a very fast-moving situation.The far-right are mobilising in London this weekend in opposition to a demonstration calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Near the centre of this is Tommy Robinson, who was allowed back onto X (Twitter) on Monday, and who has mentioned repeatedly that he’s wanted to get the English Defence League (EDL) back together.Home Secretary Braverman’s recent comments calling pro-Palestine demonstrations “hate marches” have contributed to firing up an already hostile, and increasingly energised, mass of the former far-right street movement. Along with worrying rumblings from the underground, the literal Nazis in the National Front look set to make their Remembrance Day march to the Cenotaph as usual, whilst somehow avoiding being labelled a “hate march” by our Home Secretary…It’s a muddied picture, but Joe helps us to get to grips with what we should expect to see.Thanks for listeningXP.s. Apologies for the background chainsaw noise towards the start and the end of the podcast - please do bear with us, it does go away after a short while.