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'

For almost four decades Nick Lowles has been trying to push back against the far right. First with the research magazine Searchlight and later with the campaigning organisation Hope Not Hate that has helped foil bomb and murder plots, as well as working in communities to combat far-right propaganda.

He tells Helen Pidd about growing up in the 1970s with the National Front on the rise and how in the 1980s he helped infiltrate organisations such as the BNP and Combat 18. More recently Hope Not Hate's work helped lead to Tommy Robinson being jailed. Through it all Lowles has had death threats and abuse.