The Convener
The room, the network and the deal, brings the right people together.
Nick Lowles reads as The Convener because he understands that coalitions run on credibility, and credibility demands consistency. Across three decades of counter-extremism work, he has condemned his own side's failures on grooming gangs and Islamist extremism as readily as his opponents' worst instincts.
“You know, the most extreme Nazi Satanist group anywhere in the world. But for much of this period, they were fringe people. They were considered political cranks. They were considered weirdos.”
“Of the group's founder, David Myatt. You know, he joined other religions and becomes a Taoist and a Buddhist and later converts to Islam. If you look at Christos Beast, Richard Malt, David Mayat's successor, he joins a Christian group in the early 2000s and becomes a kind of born-again Christian.”
“One of the people raided was Garrenhelm, who will be well known to readers of the Hope Not Hate blog, a hardline neo-Nazi had been imprisoned for sending anti-Semitic images and comments to Luciana Berger. Garen Helm was raided and later acquitted, but he was raided on potential membership of national action.”
“People who never would have come across it before come across it now and the volume of their material online is quite unbelievable. But also if you're drawn into it, you want to make a name for yourself.”
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