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.
“If we're losing, obviously what we're doing is sometimes wrong. On the grooming thing, I get really frustrated because I cannot understand how we got ourselves into that situation.”
Critiquing progressive failures on groomingundated
“Just calling people racist, calling people fascist didn't actually work. You had to understand why people were supporting these groups and talk to them at a level they understood.”
Explaining Hope Not Hate's founding approachundated
“We can no longer rely on our political leaders to take a lead because they are failing of all political colours. There is power in communities, there is power in civil society.”
On civil society organising post-Tommy Robinson marchundated
Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy: “Why the far right keeps winning - and how to stop it | Nick Lowles”
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