Hi John,

I’m excited to share with you our new report, State of HATE 2023: Rhetoric, Racism and Resentment. 

Each year we publish a State of Hate; it is the most comprehensive and analytical guide to the far-right in Britain today. 

It’s a big piece of work and it has taken our team months to pull together original investigations, research and profiles.

Here’s just a few of the headlines:

1. We’ve recorded a 102% rise in far-right anti-migrant activism
2. Our polling found that half of young men have a positive view of extreme misogynist Andrew Tate
3. We’ve uncovered an anti-Muslim group operating at the heart of the British establishment
4. We reveal that 20 far-right activists were convicted of terror offences in 2022 (a new record for one year), and 49% of all arrests up to September 2022 were linked to the extreme-right

This report is important because it lifts the lid on what the far-right are really trying to do.

2022 was a year of political chaos with 3 Prime Ministers, a cost of living crisis and the country still feeling the effects of the pandemic. 73% of people in the UK think that Britain is going in the wrong direction - and John, the far-right want to take advantage of that.

Every weekend the far-right are taking action whether it’s stirring up tensions around migrant accommodation, protesting traffic calming measures or, for some, launching election campaigns.

The far-right remains small. But we shouldn’t judge the far-right threat solely on its size. It is increasingly extreme and is growing in confidence whilst trying to build its numbers on and offline. 

But the far right can’t succeed, not if thousands of us across the country resist.

John, we cannot let the far right win,

Thanks for being part of this movement,

Georgie

Campaigns & Communications Director, HOPE not hate