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Klaus Slob's avatar

You managed to hang on long enough to the point where now you have a huge chunk of the public behind you. It doesn’t have the same sting it would have had in 2017 for example. HopeNotHate are fucking losers and it’s becoming mainstream to hate them.

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Thomas Cook's avatar

I was about to say the same. HnH hit piece in 2025 is basically like getting your hollywood star, it's not like back in the Iconoclast days

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Klaus Slob's avatar

HnH, the ADL and the SPLC are a great resource for finding good content. Also if you look at their homeoage they've got Nigel Farage on it. They are kind of mainstreaming you if they put you on the same footing as the most famous opposition politician in the country.

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English Plantsman's avatar

"named after the source of all evil in Tolkien's works" lol they've really got nothing haven't they.

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Jack Dobsen's avatar

Writing "Wright has adopted a bleak worldview" in an undoubtedly State-orchestrated hit piece is pretty rich, too.

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Ian's avatar

Morgoth's intro for Hate-reading The Guardian...

Now THAT'S how it's done!

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Dan O'Connor's avatar

I've had a few experiences that are straight out of Franz Kafka's " The Trial " novel.

I was confronted and informed that " there has been a meeting " , and told I had offended someone and asked if I had used " the N word ".

I said very sternly that this accusation was a lie and inquired as to who had claimed this.

The reply I received was that I had no right to know. You see ? That's how they work---self inflated little hipster Kommissars. I told them that they can take their Spanish Inquistion fucking witch hunt and stick it up their 1984 arseholes.

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DW's avatar

I guess you knew it'd happen one day, but I bet it still stings. I hope this hasn't been too stressful for you and those around you.

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Morgoth's avatar

I’d become less concerned over the years because of the very fact I was careful what I was saying. It is what it is.

Thanks for the support.

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Ben Woodcock's avatar

About 20 years ago, a much younger me donated money to Hope not Hate. I've experience a lot since then and have just subscribed to this substack.

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Morgoth's avatar

Lovely, welcome friend.

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Bovril's avatar

I remember meeting "Chris" (Harry Shukman) at that conference, I had met him before at meet-ups, but he had vanished for some months before randomly turning up on the last day of the event. When his true identity was revealed, late last year, we all knew what information he had really been there for. The REAL hope we can have is in that it appears HnH have never looked more weak, desperate and untrustworthy in the public eye, they're loosing their touch and their money too.

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Morgoth's avatar

Lots of debt I hear.

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Paul's avatar

£370k creditors in 2023, up from £134k in 2022. Their charitable trust ran a deficit (for the first time) of £376k in 2023. Charitable income has collapsed from £1.15m in 2019 to £418k in 2023. Not good!

Keep up the great work - your writing and insights are exceptional.

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N.S. Lyons's avatar

Good, now we can all start inviting you to in-person appearances and you'll have no reason not to go. A US tour maybe?

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Morgoth's avatar

Ha, it’d be nice if I can get through an airport now.

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Monty Fontaine's avatar

Sorry you've been "Revealed!!" by the HNH scum. I'm sure it hasn't been a pleasant experience but on the upside, it's at least come at a time when the label of 'far right' has lost so much of it's potency. The HNH scum's Twitter posts seem to average around 14 likes, so it gives you an idea of how much normal people actually care for this government funded soft terrorism agency.

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Lower World Diaries's avatar

Works night shifts in metal plating factory.

Promotes cyclical theory of time (perhaps due to night shifts).

Develops multiple techniques for understanding media provocation.

Encourages young men to stay within the bounds of the law.

Consistently argues against the mass rape of young women.

Awarded HnH "Solid Performance" medal in 2025.

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Thomas Cook's avatar

Love the articles, keep the good up the good work.

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Morgoth's avatar

Cheers Thomas.

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Mr_Joshua's avatar

And they probably think this piece will harm your rep, quit the opposite, I feel. People are drawn to you not just because of what you say, but how you say it. Speaking for myself at least.

The past five or so years seems to have taught a lot of people to peer through the bullshit hit pieces and see it for what it really is I'll bet that your sub count actually goes up because of this. I ain't leaving, at least.

Joke 'em if they can't take a fuck.

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Morgoth's avatar

Great!

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kafkaesque's avatar

Morgoth, I've followed you for a couple of years. I need you to keep doing what you are doing, and reading this has made me finally put my damn hand in my pocket and subscribe (for as long as I can afford to before AI and globalisation finally puts me on the heap). Sincerely hope this doesn't cause you trouble or difficulties in your life. We are with you, mate.

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Morgoth's avatar

Thanks, much appreciated.

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Tom Walters's avatar

Same here. Subscribed after learning of the "hit piece" from that Govt agency posing as people.

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KlarkashTon's avatar

I have only a few points to add to what you already wrote:

- The mere picture of you, which is excellent, gives the lie to the entire article. I believe to detect in your countenance both the thoughtfulness and slight bemusement we would expect as well as a small suspicion about the person you are looking at, which now of course has turned out to be entirely justified.

- Some people who never heard of you may be motivated to have a look at your writing themselves. I dare say they will be in for a surprise. Perhaps the most substantive result of this will be an increase in the people following you. In any case that´s what happened to somebody who was recently doxed in my neck of the woods.

- They did not get you. _We_ got you. More specifically, we got your back and shall stand behind you like a wall.

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ThatWhiteCat's avatar

You have lovely eyes.

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HnH are gutter rats.

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Morgoth's avatar

Well thank you very much.

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303Bookworm's avatar

I'm sorry to hear of it, Morgoth.

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Morgoth's avatar

It was always a risk. We soldier on.

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z28.310's avatar

One could argue they just freed you by destroying the dox threat. Depending on how much you want to embrace it, perhaps a good opportunity to hit the podcast circuit and connect with others dissenting more openly.

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Jack Dobsen's avatar

At least you have the names of those responsible. One of the greatest mistakes made in the aftermath of the Cold War was allowing the police state apparatus to get off with pardons and otherwise go unpunished. It was a blunder that must never be repeated and why claims of "we won" the Cold War are so laughable. And, yes, HnH is a state actor; over here it is the SPLC, which has been caught committing numerous felonies such as money laundering but always goes unpunished.

Sorry, man, but if it is of any comfort doxxing no longer carries as much baggage and penalty, which of course is easy for someone not under the gun to point out. Please keep writing and gifting us with truth. Be safe and well.

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