STATE OF HATE 2023 - RHETORIC, RACISM AND RESENTMENT

years on from the start of the pandemic, much of the In the last year he broke out of the confines of fringe energy that once held this loose coalition together has “manosphere” and anti-feminist communities and dissipated, and the protest movement has contracted has been invited onto some of the largest podcasts in significantly as lockdown measures have eased and the world, many of which specifi. [...] Also key is Alan Craig, a Lennon (AKA Tommy Robinson) and the American anti- former leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance (CPA) HOPE not hate | 19 STATE OF HATE 2023 THE LEADERSHIP The core of the NIG is Baroness Cox and Lord Pearson, both controversial members of the upper house who have a long history of collaborating with the far right. [...] This The group has formulated questions to be asked appeared to be a series of action points related to the and run a series of events in the House of Lords, growth of the infant organisation. [...] Religion, “was the Interreligious Advisor for the Hearts of Oak, which has striking similar objectives Church of England’s Diocese of Peterborough and to the organisation proposed by Nielsen, launched was also worked for the Office of the Archbishop of with a protest on Parliament Square demanding Canterbury’s Representative to the European Union as the deportation of Muslim perpetrators of on-str. [...] While the primary aim of the NIG is to advance anti- Muslim politics, the central driving motivation for CONCERNED ABOUT CHRISTIAN CONCERN much of the group’s core members is the defence of The most important Christian group represented Christianity and Christian identity in the UK.