Nick Lowles: Why I've spent the last 35 years fighting Nazis
Full Disclosure with James O'Brien
Global
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Nick Lowles is chief executive of HOPE not hate, the UK's largest anti-racism and anti-extremism movement. For the last 35 years, he has tirelessly fought against those who try to exploit frustrations, create divisions and pit groups against each other.
Nick began his involvement with the anti-fascist movement as a student volunteer. He then worked for the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight before founding HOPE not hate in 2004. In his first ever interview about his life, Nick tells James why he's dedicated his life to fighting extremism and what keeps him awake at night.
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| 0:00.0 | Look at him go. |
| 0:01.5 | He's a quality striker. |
| 0:02.8 | No, not him. |
| 0:03.7 | The electrician fixing those lights. |
| 0:05.5 | Wow. |
| 0:06.2 | Is he? |
| 0:06.9 | Yes, he uses QuickBooks to prepare for self-assessment. |
| 0:10.3 | This is truly game-changing. |
| 0:12.9 | Use QuickBooks year-round to ensure your income tax return is shock-free. |
| 0:17.0 | That's how you business differently. |
| 0:18.9 | Into its QuickBooks. |
| 0:19.7 | This episode contains sensitive topic discussions, including racism and violence. |
| 0:25.9 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:29.8 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project conceived exclusively to let me spend more time with interesting people than I would ever be able to do on the radio show. |
| 0:52.1 | This week's guest, Nick Lowell's, the chief executive of Hope Not |
| 0:55.9 | Not Hate, the UK's largest anti-racism and anti-extremism movement. Welcome. Hello. |
| 1:00.9 | It's a weird one this for me, because there's obviously an awful lot of ground to cover. |
| 1:06.0 | A lot of the work that you do hinges upon secrecy, hinges upon covert operations, albeit that you oversee rather |
| 1:13.8 | than conduct them yourself so much. And I don't want to do anything in the course of this |
| 1:20.3 | conversation that kind of exposes you or your organisation too much. Now, I know you're perfectly |
| 1:25.7 | capable of deciding what questions you're perfectly capable of deciding what questions |
| 1:27.7 | you're going to answer and what questions you're not going to answer, but it's called full |
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