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Strategic communications and branding. Author and former journalist.

Jan 29, 2020, 26 tweets

⚡️ Proud to launch the BRAND NEW edition of @hopenothate magazine today!

Packed with analysis, reportage, interviews and comment, it's all about overcoming 💔 division 🤝

Get yours now ⤵️

➡️ £25/year
➡️ THIS ISSUE hopenothate.org.uk/in-search-of-h…
➡️ MAG HUB hopenothate.org.uk/magazine

You can also get a FREE copy of the magazine – 68 pages rammed with information, investigations and analysis – if you join the @hopenothate HOPE Action Fund.

✨ Just £5 a month+

donate.hopenothate.org.uk/page/content/H…

We've got brilliant contributions in this issue, notably from @lowles_nick, who speaks to @butwhatifitsall about the life of his son @JackmerrittJack, taken from us at London Bridge but whose legacy lives on.

"Extinguish hatred with his kindness" 😌
hopenothate.org.uk/extinguish-hat…

Nick also brings his focus to bear on the challenges ahead, as we look at the divisions of the last few years and peer at the horizon – can progressives like @hopenothate forge better alliances?

➡️ POLLING: 60% think next decade will be worse

hopenothate.org.uk/nick-lowles-on…

Forging better alliances to tackle the major issues of the day – like the #ClimateCrisis – is why we relaunched our last magazine with a climate special, looking at sceptics, deniers, people movement & more 🔥🌊
hopenothate.org.uk/research/clima…

We've lots of new polling in the new @hopenothate magazine this time, too – @Rosiecarte delves into the mood of the nation, revealing that we're an ever-more tolerant place (despite the gloomy predictions) but remain divided, especially young/old, Leave/Remain, etc.

👆 that's a brilliant shot 📸 by Andrew Testa (of @panospictures), btw – we've got a small selection of his images in the mag – for a full suite of Andrew's 'State of the Union' Brexit Britain 🇬🇧 photo essay, visit 👇
nytimes.com/2019/12/11/wor…

MAGAZINE POLLING 🗳️

➡️ 76%: we should make lifestyle sacrifices to stop global warming ⚡️🔥

➡️ 63%: wide variety of backgrounds & cultures is part of British culture

➡️ 64%: immigration as a whole is good for the country

🚨 BUT 🚨

➡️ 70%: say British values are in decline 😕

POLLING (cont'd)

➡️ Leave voters continue to be more optimistic (59%) than Remain voters (32%)

➡️ Half of us (54%) remain pessimistic about the future

➡️ 75% of Conservative voters expect Boris Johnson to keep his campaign promises 🤔

➡️ 73% feel no affiliation to any party

Sadly anti-Muslim prejudice remains high 🧕

➡️ Over a third (35%) think Islam is a threat to the British way of life

➡️ Over half who voted Conservative in 2019 (53%) see Islam as a threat

➡️ 38% think there are sharia law ‘no-go’ zones for non-Muslims in the UK

GENERAL ELECTION #GE2019

Here's how the nation 🗳️ voted, according to a story we've run in @hopenothate mag based on @IpsosMORI data ⤵️

hopenothate.org.uk/how-britain-vo…

🔍 READ MORE on 'State of the Nation' analysis from @Rosiecarte by subscribing here:

hopenothate.org.uk/magazine

For more on @hopenothate's polling/integration work:

hopenothate.org.uk/strongercommun…

And see the new 'HOPEFUL TOWNS' project:

charity.hopenothate.org.uk/why-we-need-ho…

And there's more ...

The Brexit Party crashed and burned with zero seats at the General Election – @lowles_nick explains why ⤵️

hopenothate.org.uk/zero-seats/

+ @mcgregormt profiles our general election campaign, with over 3m people seeing one or more of our social media ads (😵)

NEW FEATURE

From the Brexit frontlines, I report from two Leave-voting towns, #Dagenham and #Mansfield, where @UKLabour has struggled for votes and lives have been blighted by deprivation ... Better times ahead? #longreads

Subscribe to read (£7/£25):
⚡️ hopenothate.org.uk/magazine

I also spoke to politicians Caroline Spelman, @jessphillips @ManduReid and @margarethodge to understand how women in politics have been coping with often-horrendous abuse – and what should be done about it ⚠️
hopenothate.org.uk/the-freedom-to…

Also in the mag: @sunny_hundal looks at attempts by Hindu nationalist activists to sway votes in the UK general election campaign; while @ElisabethPop13 makes an impassioned plea for a coalition to battle the government’s (harmful) imposition of voter ID.
hopenothate.org.uk/hindu-national…

.@miqdaad makes the case, as forcefully as ever, for a proper inquiry into #Islamophobia in @Conservatives, while @lowles_nick pulls apart the thorny issue of how @UKLabour found itself in such difficulties over #antisemitism ⤵️
hopenothate.org.uk/we-must-listen…

We’ve got contributions from @sundersays over the Government’s coming immigration challenge & its promise for an ‘Australian-style points system’, while Boris Johnson appears to be reneging on commitments to EU citizens in the UK, warns @alexandrabulat

(Subscribe to read)

We joined @HNHeducation in Nottinghamshire to witness the brilliant work of @owenmbjones in opening young minds to understanding prejudice and discrimination.

💡 If you're a teacher and concerned about far-right radicalisation, see our new 🎥
charity.hopenothate.org.uk/radicalisation…

Thanks also to @Imi_Ahmed of @CCDHate for detailing how we can disrupt digital hate, and explaining the #DontFeedTheTrolls campaign ⬇️⬇️

We have reviews by @ryanscribe and @Nick_Spooner1 of ‘Seducing & Killing Nazis’ by @SophiePolderman and ‘We Fight Fascists’ by @dansonabend, who also did a brill podcast with @hopenothate recently.

👂buzzsprout.com/170425/2524426…

📚 ‘Harry Potter was a refugee…’

For true inspiration, read @safyark’s interview with @OnjaliRauf, bestselling children’s author and champion for vulnerable women & refugees, on her amazing journey and inspirations (it looks even better in the mag!)

hopenothate.org.uk/harry-potter-w…

🐘 And remember ... 🐘

You can get a FREE copy of @hopenothate magazine if you join @hopenothate's HOPE Action Fund. From just £5 a month 🤩 to start battling fascism, racism & prejudice.

donate.hopenothate.org.uk/page/content/H…

@hopenothate And again, here's the hub for this edition of the @hopenothate magazine, which I edited along with @lowles_nick

As the name suggests, it's all about "HOPE" ...
hopenothate.org.uk/in-search-of-h…

@hopenothate @lowles_nick The last two magazines have both been good (imo) and build on a long tradition of fantastic anti-fascist reporting by many, many others.

Hopefully we're remaining true to the 'spirit' of @hopenothate ... all a credit to @lowles_nick vision 👏

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