Patrik Hermansson
@patrikhermansson.bsky.social
Senior researcher at @hopenothate.org.uk
My “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism,” the first comprehensive overview of Nazi-Satanism, is finally out! Runs from the 1970s alliances b/t the Church of Satan & neo-Nazi groups thru today’s Order of Nine Angles and NVE. Link for PDF download. (captcha req) escholarship.org/uc/item/1f57...
One of the closest aides to Jordan Bardella - the man that might become France’s next Prime Minister - met with prominent US anti-abortion rights campaigners in 2025 and took part in an anti-abortion march in April 2026. Read our joint investigation with @lesjours.fr: lesjours.fr/obsessions/r...
Les convictions anti-avortement du collaborateur parlementaire de Jordan Bardella
Info « Les Jours » x Hope not hate (1/2). Manifestation anti-IVG, réseau « pro-vie » aux États-Unis : voici Étienne Duhazé, assistant du président du RN au Parlement européen.
lesjours.fr
🔴 Info Les Jours X HOPE not hate Nous avons surpris l’assistant parlementaire de Jordan Bardella en train de participer tranquillement à une manifestation contre l’avortement à Bruxelles en avril 2026. Le RN n’a définitivement pas changé.
Les convictions anti-avortement du collaborateur parlementaire de Jordan Bardella
Info « Les Jours » x Hope not hate (1/2). Manifestation anti-IVG, réseau « pro-vie » aux États-Unis : voici Étienne Duhazé, assistant du président du RN au Parlement européen.
lesjours.fr
Ben Delo, the crypto billionaire pardoned by Trump, has given £36m to Reform UK. In March we exposed Delo as the funder of The Sanctuary, a hub for right wing activity in Westminster. investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/the-sanctuary/
The Sanctuary | HOPE not hate
Funded by a crypto billionaire, this Westminster base supports some of the most controversial figures in politics — including Restore Britain
investigations.hopenothate.org.uk
GRANSKNING: Gjorde propaganda för Orbán – nu vinminglar KD-tjänstemannen i Sagerska.
2017 var hon anonymiserad som ”Elena” på en statligt finansierad påverkansoperationsresa till Ryssland. I dag är hon politiskt sakkunnig i KU och sambo till en av Tidöavtalets huvudarkitekter. Enligt säkerhetsexperter är omständigheterna att betrakta som en säkerhetsrisk – men SD vägrar svara.
Den okända sekreteraren ”Elena”
Hon var 2017 anonymiserad som SD-sekreteraren ”Elena” på en statligt finansierad påverkansoperationsresa till Ryssland. I dag är hon politiskt sakkunnig i konstitutionsutskottet och sambo till en av T...
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💥 NEW: Before Reform suspended Tim Montgomerie, he warned that the party’s “number one problem” is tactical voting against it. Our research shows why: 43% would be unhappy with a Reform government. We surveyed 8,617 of them to understand who they are and what could make tactical voting work.
Blocking the path: The anti-Reform voters standing between Farage and No. 10
Our new study of 8,617 of these anti-Reform voters is one of the most detailed investigations into this coalition to date. Anti-Reform voters are not a coherent bloc, but a coalition united by suspici...
hopenothate.org.uk
NEW: We analysed more than 300,000 posts on X during the 2026 World Cup. What we found was shocking. More than 5,500 explicitly racist posts, targeting black England players. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
World Cup 2026: Racism suffered by England players on X amplified by algorithms - new report
Racist abuse aimed at England footballers on social media was amplified during the World Cup by algorithms designed to maximise engagement and profit, according to new research.
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What is CPAC Great Britain? Headed by Liz Truss, Prime Minister turned YouTuber, this conference marks the latest American attempt to export paranoid and socially regressive MAGA policies to the UK. Here’s all you need to know. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/07/16/e...
Everything you need to know about Liz Truss’s CPAC Great Britain – HOPE not hate
While most former prime ministers set up foundations or lecture at Ivy League universities, Liz Truss has launched a YouTube channel. Upon this soapbox, with...
hopenothate.org.uk
"Remigration" is a clean word for an ugly idea: ethnic cleansing. Last month several hundred of Europe's far right gathered in a hotel near Porto, Portugal, to turn it into policy. We went inside. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/06/11/r...
Remigration Summit 2026: Europe’s far right looks to ICE for inspiration – HOPE not hate
by HOPE not hate Europe Team At a hotel complex around an hour and a half drive south of Porto, several hundred people gathered for...
hopenothate.org.uk
In the months before the Hungarian election, the Danube Institute, a government-funded think-tank, distributed hundreds of thousands of dollars in an attempt to build an international echo chamber and amplify Orban. @atlatszo.hu has some of the contracts english.atlatszo.hu/2026/05/14/j...
Just before the election, the Orbán regime distributed a fortune among its foreign cheerleaders – English
We looked into the contracts of the Danube Institute, through which the previous gorvernment payments millions to the European right-wing populist movement and
english.atlatszo.hu
“Nigel Farage’s party is tapping into rising anger with the political establishment - but it’s also tapped into a rich seam of political funding.” Democracy for Sale on Ben Delo, the Trump-pardoned crypto billionaire who’s given £4m to Reform: https://bit.ly/3QAiV7J
Reform's £4m donor "thumbed his nose at the law", US prosecutors said
Ben Delo has called his US conviction a "non-crime". Prosecutors said the Farage-backing crypto billionaire was a “leader of a criminal enterprise”.
democracyforsale.substack.com
Knäckebrödsfascisten är död men hans metoder lever. Om Carl Lundström, Bergström-paret och Google-grundaren Sergey Brin - och varför de riktigt rika alltid väljer egennyttan framför demokratin. Min nya text i Dagens ETC: www.etc.se/kronika/supe...
Miljardärerna är okej med att sprida konspirationsteorier – så länge kontot växer
Den ekonomiska eliten finansierar ytterhögern under parollen ”frihet”.
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Det här hade varit ett lysande exempel att ta med också, om jag hade hittat det innan jag skickade iväg texten: bsky.app/profile/patr...
Patrik Hermansson@patrikhermansson.bsky.social · 7mo agoNew story from us! Ben Delo, a crypto billionaire convicted of breaking an US banking law and pardoned by Trump, is running an office overlooking Westminster Abbey. Providing both free services and direct funding to a range of extreme projects. investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/the-sanctuary/
New story from us! Ben Delo, a crypto billionaire convicted of breaking an US banking law and pardoned by Trump, is running an office overlooking Westminster Abbey. Providing both free services and direct funding to a range of extreme projects. investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/the-sanctuary/
The Sanctuary | HOPE not hate
Funded by a crypto billionaire, this Westminster base supports some of the most controversial figures in politics — including Restore Britain
investigations.hopenothate.org.uk
We won!
Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 10mo agoCongratulations to the winners of Health & Life Sciences Journalism: @theguardian.com and @hopenothate.org.uk teams David Pegg @tomburgis.bsky.social @juliettegarside.bsky.social Jason Wilson @harryshukman.bsky.social @patrikhermansson.bsky.social #BJA2025
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
politico.com
In June, Tory leader hopeful Robert Jenrick, who recently complained about not seeing white faces in a Birmingham suburb, declared he is an Anglofuturist. We got inside a secret Anglofuturist Discord server to find out what that really means 👇 🔗 hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/08/r...
Robert Jenrick says he’s an Anglofuturist. What does that mean? – HOPE not hate
In late June, the shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick took the stand at a conference. Addressing the crowd of Tories and radical-right political figures, he made an unusual statement. “I am what c...
hopenothate.org.uk
Robert Jenrick calls himself an “Anglofuturist.” We got inside one of the movement's key Discord groups. Behind the AI-generated images of Union Jack-emblazoned moon bases, we found a community steeped in far-right ideas of mass deportation and anti-muslim hatred. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/08/r...
Robert Jenrick says he’s an Anglofuturist. What does that mean? – HOPE not hate
In late June, the shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick took the stand at a conference. Addressing the crowd of Tories and radical-right political figures, he made an unusual statement. “I am what c...
hopenothate.org.uk
Farage advisor said U.K. would be better off if it had not fought in WW2
Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2
Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may ‘regain’ former colonies in future and suggests end to support for Ukraine
theguardian.com
‘If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza
‘If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza
Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera reporter, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night. This is the message he had prepared for his family, and his call for the world not to forget Gaza
theguardian.com
🚨 NEW from me: Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump's immigration crackdown, has a financial stake of up to a quarter million dollars in Palantir, a key ICE contractor. Experts cite conflict of interest concerns Read it @pogo.org: www.pogo.org/investigatio...
Stephen Miller’s Financial Stake in ICE Contractor Palantir
Over a dozen Trump appointees in the White House and Department of Homeland Security have owned stock in the controversial company raising privacy concerns across the political spectrum.
pogo.org
Read our latest report on the Basketweavers. A large far-right network that’s flown under the radar for years. Until @harryshukman.bsky.social went inside. hopenothate.org.uk/the-basketwe...
The Basketweavers: Inside the biggest far-right group you've never heard of
With over a thousand members across the UK, US, and beyond, the Basketweavers presents themselves as a harmless social club, but behind closed doors, they push antisemitic conspiracies, violent fantas...
hopenothate.org.uk
Who are the Basketweavers? Behind the purposefully inconspicuous name is a shadowy far right network with plans to form a new elite, and connections to a swathe of far-right extremists. hopenothate.org.uk/the-basketwe...
The Basketweavers: Inside the biggest far-right group you've never heard of
With over a thousand members across the UK, US, and beyond, the Basketweavers presents themselves as a harmless social club, but behind closed doors, they push antisemitic conspiracies, violent fantas...
hopenothate.org.uk
We've updated our story on the alleged Minnesota shooter to include details from anti-abortion and anti-trans sermons he gave in 2023.
Brian Barrett@brbarrett.bsky.social · last yr.The alleged Minnesota shooter runs a security company and has links to an evangelical mission; the website of his ministry says he once "sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel." www.wired.com/story/shooti...
Aporia's status as a race science outlets is well established by now. By lending his Harvard credentials to it, Pinker contributes to widening its audience.
“By lending his Harvard credentials to Aporia, Pinker contributes to the normalisation and spread of dangerous, discredited ideas.”
He plotted terror attacks on mosques and synagogues. He and his accomplices stockpiled 200+ weapons. Now we can reveal Brogan Stewart, jailed last month, was trying to join the British Movement, one of the most extreme neo-Nazi groups in the UK. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/06/06/t...
The British Movement: Dawn Raids, Terror Plots and Nazi Youth Groups
HOPE not hate covers recent developments in the neo-Nazi British Movement and exposes the group’s links to Brogan Stewart, convicted of a terror plot last month. We also take a look at White Vanguard,...
hopenothate.org.uk
NEW: "Remigration"—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department. And it may already be happening in the US.
The Trump Administration Wants to Create an 'Office of Remigration' to Kick Immigrants Out of the Country
"Remigration"—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department...
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