Our work

Current campaigns

Hate Matters works across three priority areas. Each addresses a specific intersection of hate with legislation, education, or the infrastructure of digital public life.

Digital identity

Digital ID must get hate right

The government is developing a national digital ID. It should record hate. It should be simple, optional and accurate. We have written a 240-page briefing, which is itself simple and optional.

Read the briefing → Education

Schools guidance: the case for clarity

Our School Guidance Working Group has convened seven times. The chair, Margaret, attended all seven. She was the only attendee. The minutes have been adopted unanimously.

Read the guidance → Spaces

Single-hate spaces: we do not consider this complicated

Our position is clear, simple, and ordinary. We have a manifesto, six op-eds, and a podcast in which we explain, at length, that we do not consider this complicated.

Read the manifesto →

How we work

Our methodology is documented in the Hate Maturity Model v3, available in the Hate Library. Briefly: we identify an area in which hate is insufficiently codified in law or practice; we produce a briefing; we submit the briefing to the relevant body; we document the response; we produce a further briefing.

In cases where a body declines to implement our recommendations, we write again. In cases where a body declines a second time, we add the body to the register and write again. We have found this approach to be consistent with our mission.

We have not yet found it consistent with our outcomes. We consider this a temporary situation.

What we have achieved

Hate Matters has, since its founding:

  • Produced fourteen policy briefings, of which two have been acknowledged by the bodies to which they were submitted
  • Submitted written evidence to seven parliamentary inquiries, of which one cited us (unfavourably)
  • Convened seven working group sessions, of which none has achieved quorum
  • Published six issues of the Hate Matters Quarterly, which is published monthly and whose name is under review
  • Maintained a register of individuals and organisations insufficiently committed to our work. The register is growing.

We anticipate that the significance of this work will become clear in due course. We are preparing for that moment.