The Unelectables: Meet the far-right candidates in the May 2026 elections – HOPE not hate HOPE not hate explores the assorted extremists representing the far right at the upcoming elections, including Holocaust deniers, crank conspiracists and Crusader cosplayers 7 May...

While Reform UK looks to dominate the right wing vote in the local elections in May, there is a variety of oddball reactionaries, fascist microparties, and independents competing for the sliver of support to the right of Reform.

Read all about them here: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/04/21/t...

Steve Laws: Ethnic cleansing extremist claims “daily” contact with Restore Britain top team – HOPE not hate HOPE not hate exposes the links between Restore Britain, the new party led by Rupert Lowe MP, and the fascist figurehead Steve Laws: Since launching...

EXCLUSIVE: HOPE not hate can reveal that fascist figurehead Steve Laws has claimed to have “daily” contact with Rupert Lowe’s closest advisors at Restore Britain.

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Year of the Rat author wins £10k prize for year spent undercover with far-right Harry Shukman wins the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year for his chilling, nail-biting account of a year spent undercover with the far-right, risking his safety to reveal a terrifying world

Immensely proud of @harryshukman.bsky.social for winning the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award!

Very well deserved.

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Nazi-obsessed teenager described herself as 'embodiment of hell' before launching axe attack Alina Burns, 18, has admitted attempted murder after attacking an Iranian Kurd outside a barber's shop in Bristol.

18-year old neo-Nazi Alina Burns has pleaded guilty to attempted murder after launching an axe attack on an Iranian man in Bristol.

She was a member of Patriotic Alternative (PA), the UK's largest neo-Nazi group.

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Aryan Front exposed: The new neo-Nazi cell pushing for “Racial Holy War” – HOPE not hate Warning: this article includes extreme and offensive imagery HOPE not hate exposes Aryan Front, an extreme neo-Nazi cell that split from White Vanguard last month....

🚨 NEW: HOPE not hate blows the lid on Aryan Front, a new neo-Nazi group pushing for “Racial Holy War”.

While tiny, the group is aligned to a militant white supremacist cult and poses a violent threat.

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The rise and fall of White Vanguard: How a neo-Nazi group tore itself apart – HOPE not hate Warning: this article includes extreme and offensive imagery HOPE not hate can reveal that the neo-Nazi group White Vanguard has suffered a major split. A...

🚨 NEW: Neo-Nazi group White Vanguard (WV) has suffered a major split. A series of calamitous errors has cost the group half its membership, forced a change in leadership and left its future uncertain.

Read our report: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/01/07/t...

Congratulations to the winners of Health & Life Sciences Journalism: @theguardian.com and @hopenothate.org.uk teams David Pegg @tomburgis.bsky.social @juliettegarside.bsky.social Jason Wilson @harryshukman.bsky.social @patrikhermansson.bsky.social #BJA2025

REVEALED: The Figures Behind The Far Right’s New Research Unit  – HOPE not hate HOPE not hate shines a light on the figures behind a new far-right research unit that has progressive activists in its sights Warning: This blog...

🚨 NEW: We’ve dug into the people behind the far-right research unit we exposed last month, and the picture is grim.

This follow-up uncovers the extreme histories of the individuals building a database of progressives across the UK.

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Reform council leader accused of racism after alleged remarks about Sadiq Khan Ian Cooper allegedly called Khan ‘narcissistic Pakistani’ and made comments about lawyer Shola Mos-Shogbamimu A Reform UK council leader has been accused of racism after allegedly describing Sadiq Khan as a “narcissistic Pakistani” and saying a black British lawyer should have “F’d off back to Nigeria”. Ian Cooper, the leader of Staffordshire county council, is also said to have attacked the justice secretary, David Lammy, in a social media post that said: “No foreign national or first generation migrant should be allowed to sit in parliament.” Continue reading...

Reform council leader accused of racism after alleged remarks about Sadiq Khan

AI is out of control 😡

🚨 NEW: The rapid spread of Active Clubs, a network of fascist martial arts groups, is among the most concerning trends on the British extreme right.

We can now expose the figures behind AC Midlands - one of the best established chapters in the country.

Perfect

Undercover in The Basketweavers HOPE not hate went undercover to reveal how this secretive network mixes racist ideology, conspiracy theories, and extreme misogyny under the guise of harmless social meetups.

💥 ICYMI: HOPE not hate’s @harryshukman.bsky.social went undercover to expose how the secretive group The Basketweavers hides racism, conspiracy theories, and extreme misogyny behind seemingly harmless social meetups.

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This really does display a woeful understanding of politics. When it comes to sleaze, it’s a politician’s job to avoid anything with even the faintest whiff of it.

Meet the Great British PAC: a far-right pressure group, packed with extremists – HOPE not hate 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...

Meet the Great British PAC 🧵

GB PAC is not a political party, but rather a group modelled on US-style political action groups that receive big sums of money to fund campaigns for or against candidates and issues.

Read our newest blog:

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The Basketweavers: Inside the biggest far-right group you've never heard of With over a thousand members across the UK, US, and beyond, the Basketweavers presents themselves as a harmless social club, but behind closed doors, they push antisemitic conspiracies, violent fantas...

Who are the Basketweavers? Behind the purposefully inconspicuous name is a shadowy far right network with plans to form a new elite, and connections to a swathe of far-right extremists.

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Very exciting new report from @hopenothate.org.uk.

Meet The Basketweavers! This could be the most important far-right network you have never heard of with over a thousand members across the UK, US, and beyond.

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Revealed: New Reform UK director Charlton Edwards promoted conspiracy theory and far right content online – HOPE not hate The problems keep growing for Reform UK and its leader Nigel Farage. HOPE not hate can reveal that Reform’s newly appointed director and secretary Charlton...

NEW 🚨Reform UK’s newly appointed Director and Secretary Charlton Edwards has a history of promoting conspiracy theory and far right content online.
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After 6 months of rapid growth and self-congratulation, fascist Homeland Party’s momentum has stalled. Aggressive recruitment grew membership to 1,200+ and propagandists insisted the party’s success was “inevitable”. But its first real test - local elections - was a total flop.

Homeland Away: Nazi Networks and No Seats – HOPE not hate In the aftermath of the local elections, we survey the recent shifts and rifts within the fascist Homeland Party. In particular, we look at the...

In the aftermath of the local elections, and as online delusions clash against reality, I survey the recent shifts and rifts within the fascist Homeland Party, including the group’s international networking and electoral prospects.

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'No surrender': Lee Anderson's head of office was young Tommy Robinson fan Internal divisions within Reform UK spilled out into the open last Thursday, when the party's chair Zia Yusuf termed new MP Sarah Pochin's parliamentary question about a burqa ban "dumb" and subsequen...

Zia Yusuf’s resignation and u-turn aren’t the only things causing division in Reform UK this week.

We can reveal a key parliamentary staffer has a history as a Tommy Robinson fanboy, directly contradicting his boss’s public stance.

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Though in fairness, i'd probably hide my face if I was previously known for a "homemade-medieval-axe-rampage" affair...

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The irony of Aidan Heaps, aka "Capt Britain", complaining about the burqa - he literally never appears in public without his embarrassing superhero disguise!

Compare the courage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid mission with the inaction and complicity of western governments | Owen Jones The Madleen is no ‘selfie yacht’. It is a symbol of human compassion in a world that has decided to look away, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Greta Thunberg and the Madleen offered a heart in a heartless world.

They reminded us that Israel is deliberately starving an entire people - and the West could stop that at any moment.

New column 👇

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Funny to see Tesla fans responding to the burning Waymos in Calfornia with “Yay less competition for Robotaxi!” rather than “Wow I bet that’ll happen to Robotaxi too”

The British Movement: Dawn Raids, Terror Plots and Nazi Youth Groups HOPE not hate 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,...

He plotted terror attacks on mosques and synagogues.

He and his accomplices stockpiled 200+ weapons.

Now we can reveal Brogan Stewart, jailed last month, was trying to join the British Movement, one of the most extreme neo-Nazi groups in the UK.

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How long do YOU think it would take us to extinct the cat species, if it was a thing we worked towards?

Love to log on to Facebook and see what we’re discussing today.

Low Quantity, Low Quality: A review of the Great British National Strike On Saturday 24 May, “strikers” across dozens of towns and cities, motivated by a right-wing populist agenda, attempted to bring the country to a stand still. Promoted as “apolitical”, the event was qu...

On Saturday, the so-called Great British National Strike attempted to bring the country to a standstill, armed with placards railing against immigration, net-zero and the government.

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