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Nick Lowles

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Nick Lowles is chief executive of Hope not Hate, the UK's largest anti-racism and anti-extremism movement. He was the former editor of anti-fascist magazine Searchlight

September 2025

  • Nick Lowles of Hope Not Hate. Photograph by David Levene 3/9/25

    Today in Focus
    How to defeat Britain’s far right – podcast

    Hope Not Hate founder Nick Lowles has spent decades researching, infiltrating and helping communities to combat far-right groups. But now, he says, ‘they have their sights on our multicultural society’
    Podcast38:00

February 2024

  • Lee Anderson and Liz Truss at a ‘Popular Conservatism’ event in London, 6 February 2024.

    double quotation markThink Tories are Islamophobic? You don’t know the half of it – we have the figures

    Nick Lowles
    We’ve surveyed Conservative members, and it’s clear that the radical right is winning the battle for the party’s soul, say Nick Lowles, chief executive of Hope Not Hate

September 2019

  • Rising seas, river erosion threaten Bangladesh

    double quotation markThe climate crisis isn’t just causing extreme weather. It’s fuelling extreme politics, too

    Nick Lowles
    The far right is exploiting climate breakdown for its own ends. This must be challenged, says Nick Lowles of Hope Not Hate

May 2019

  • Tommy Robinson left the the Central Convention Complex in Manchester on Sunday before the count was announced.

    double quotation markTommy Robinson was humiliated in the EU elections. Here’s how we helped do it

    Nick Lowles
    The far-right activist polled only 2.2%, says Hope Not Hate director Nick Lowles

March 2019

  • Jeremy Corbyn, right, with Keir Starmer, the shadow secretary of state for exiting the European Union

    double quotation markA second Brexit referendum cannot leave no deal off the ballot

    Jon Cruddas and Nick Lowles
    It would enrage the right and further erode trust in the British political system

November 2017

  • Nigel Farage LBC

    double quotation markMy charity’s libel action against Nigel Farage marks a defeat for fake news

    Nick Lowles
    We called out the former Ukip leader, and we will call out others pushing concocted stories, writes Nick Lowles, CEO of Hope Not Hate

December 2016

  • Nigel Farage

    double quotation markNigel Farage has attacked us at Hope not Hate. It’s time to draw a line in the sand

    Nick Lowles
    When my organisation opposed his disgusting attack on Brendan Cox, we met abuse. But this issue is about more than one incident, no matter how shocking

December 2013

  • EDL march in Birmingham

    double quotation markWoolwich trial: The culture of hate that drove Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale to murder

    Nick Lowles

    Nick Lowles: Groups such as the English Defence League and al-Muhajiroun present themselves as opposites, but they both spread fear

April 2012

  • Breivik gestures on day three of trial

    double quotation markAnders Behring Breivik reflects changing face of modern far right

    Nick Lowles
    Nick Lowles: Like many recent far-right activists, Breivik sees Islam as the main enemy and draws inspiration from the Serbian conflict

February 2011

  • UK Border control

    What Britons really think about immigration

  • double quotation markThe EDL marches in Luton today. Hold your breath

    Nick Lowles

September 2009

  • double quotation markDon't be fooled by the BNP

    Nick Lowles

    Nick Lowles: The party may change its membership rules to allow non-white people to join – but its underlying politics won't change

June 2009

  • double quotation markThe myth of the BNP 'protest' vote

    Jon Cruddas and Nick Lowles
    Jon Cruddas and Nick Lowles: Dismissing the BNP's success as protest voting absolves the major parties from addressing their own shortcomings

October 2008

  • double quotation markFar right rising

    Nick Lowles

    Nick Lowles: In order to defeat the BNP, we have to tackle the disillusionment and disaffection the party feeds off

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