White Riot: Oldham 2001 part three

Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick will tell you that they want to keep the pensions triple lock, but the 'brains' behind Reform tell you what they really want to do.Sign up for our fortnightly Reform Watch newsletter to keep in the loop with what Farage and co are getting up to. Spoiler: it's never good.https://hopenothate.org.uk/reform-watch/Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

Patriot Platform, a self-described “army” of Christian “patriots” led by Danny ‘Tommo’ Thomas , has surged into the public eye after a series of protests in Dover, Portsmouth and outside the Daily Mail offices in London.In many ways, the group truly embodies all the elements of the modern anti-migrant threat: intimidatory groups engaging in vigilante activism, focussed on small boat crossings under the guise of “Christian values”. They spew copious amounts of low-quality AI-generated content, whether it be music, posters or videos of members' faces superimposed onto crusader knights in shining armour. After several summers of anti-migrant rhetoric becoming increasingly emboldened, with local networks developing all over the country, it is unsurprising that a group like PP has come to exist. FULL LIST OF AFFILIATE GROUPS:1066 PatriotsBirmingham PatriotsChertsey PatriotsCoventry PatriotsDarlington PatriotsDerby PatriotsDurham PatriotsEssex PatriotsGreater Manchester PatriotsHertfordshire PatriotsKent PatriotsLeicestershire PatriotsLincolnshire PatriotsNorthamptonshire PatriotsNorthumberland PatriotsPreston PatriotsProtect Our PostcodeSouth East PatriotsSouth London PatriotsSouth Saxon PatriotsSouth West PatriotsStaffordshire PatriotsSt George’s PatriotsSuffolk PatriotsSurrey PatriotsTeesside PatriotsTyneside PatriotsWearside PatriotsYorkshire ArmyVisit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

It’s no secret Reform isn’t very good at vetting – earlier this year, even Nigel Farage admitted it’s been “pisspoor” in the past – but perhaps this isn’t the main scandal. Worse than the fact Reform struggles to detect people with extreme views wanting to stand under its banner, once the party finds out about them, it often happily lets them stay. To drive the point home, here are ten examples of Reform councillors who have been exposed for making racist, far-right and conspiratorial comments online. All of them remain in the party.Sign up to our Reform Watch newsletter here: https://hopenothate.org.uk/reform-watchVisit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

A new report from HOPE not hate reveals that 43% of the British public would be unhappy with a Reform UK government.HOPE not hate finds that anti-Reform voters are a bigger bloc than Reform’s own waning support base. However, they are not a single cohesive group, but rather a coalition of voters with different ideologies and attitudes, united by opposition to the far-right party. Anki Deo from HOPE not hate spoke about the report and how tactical voting could keep Nigel Farage and Reform UK out of Number Ten.Read Anki's full report here:https://hopenothate.org.uk/blocking-the-path/Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

It was late on a Friday night last September and Ant Middleton, the ex-special forces soldier, had an exciting announcement to make. He had launched a cryptocurrency token and fans could now buy in.But after just nine days, without explanation, he stopped promoting the token. The price of ANT Coin plummeted. And Middleton hasn’t mentioned it since.A HOPE not hate analysis has found that Middleton’s token (in which he partnered with a convicted drug trafficker) exhibits signs often seen with so-called “pump and dump” schemes which take advantage of gullible online traders.Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

In part one of this series, I told the first-hand story of how a gang of hardened racist streetfighters helped trigger the violence in Oldham. In part two, I looked at how the BNP pounced on the riots and tried to turn the town’s trauma into political power. Now, in the final part, I tell the story of how we fought back.Subscribe to Nick Lowle's substack for free for more stories from the front line of anti-fascist action.Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

In part one of this series, I told the first-hand story of how a gang of hardened racist streetfighters helped trigger the violence in Oldham. Now we turn to what happened next: how the BNP saw the riots not as a tragedy, but as an opportunity.Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

It is 25 years since the Oldham riots. In the first of a three-part series, Nick Lowles, CEO and founder of HOPE not hate, gives the exclusive first-hand story of how a nazi gang triggered the trouble.On the morning of Saturday, May 26, 2001, a six-feet tall, shaven-headed man walked into The Lark public house in Oldham. David Tickle cut a menacing figure. A pub doorman based twenty miles away in Wigan, he was a hardened veteran of pub brawls. Accompanying him was a local hooligan who knew the area well. The two men checked out the bar: it was almost deserted. Good. They bought drinks and waited for their friends to arrive....Read about Nick's recollections of Oldham 2001 and more about HOPE not hate's work in challenging and exposing the far right by visiting his substackVisit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

HOPE not hate explores the assorted extremists representing the far right at the upcoming elections, including Holocaust deniers, crank conspiracists and Crusader cosplayers7 May will see elections in the Scottish and Welsh parliaments, as well as more than 5,000 council contests across 136 local authorities in England.Reform UK continues to dominate the radical right, anti-immigrant sphere and stands to win hundreds of seats.Nonetheless, as is tradition, a variety of reactionaries, oddballs, fascist microparties and independents are competing for the sliver of support to the right of Reform. While you can find our investigations into Reform’s candidates in key target seats here, this podcast is an overview of the rest of the far right at the local elections. Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.

Restore Britain declared party status at the perfect moment. Between a growing appetite for ethnonationalism on the right and the mainstreaming of remigration narratives, Reform UK is simply too vanilla for many extremists’ political tastes. Restore has instantly filled the gap to the right of Reform that UKIP, Britain First and a dozen microparties have been clawing to occupy for years.HOPE not hate explores the ethnonationalists who have lined up behind Restore Britain. When will leader Rupert Lowe disavow his party’s fascist fanbase?https://hopenothate.org.uk/2026/04/08/the-company-you-keep-the-extremists-flocking-to-restore-britain/Visit the HOPE not hate website to find out more about our work.