Our Response To Hope Not Hate

On 16 July 2025, The Restorationist received contact via email from Gregory Davis, senior researcher at Hope Not Hate. We would like to thank him for reaching out, The Restorationist is glad to publish our response below.

Dear Gregory Davis, of Hope Not Hate

Thank you for your message, my response is as follows:

Your email comes 10 days after the publication of our widely-circulated article documenting the behaviour of Hope Not Hate in The Restorationist on 6th July 2025 (https://restorationist.org.uk/how-long-can-the-cps-ignore-hope-not-hates-criminality/), by myself and Alex Coppen. We take the view your bad faith organisation has a long-standing pattern of unlawful and criminal acts. Given the timing, it is difficult to see your message, submitted under journalistic pretence via a Wordpress contact form, as anything other than a vengeful continuation of the activity we describe.

Like Searchlight before it, Hope Not Hate has departed from the legal and ethical boundaries of charitable activity, and is abusing a dual legal personality for cynical ends. We are of the view you have been operating in the realm of criminality for some time. Your organisation’s documented conduct towards a long series of libel victims raises several legal concerns, including the following: 

1. Blackmail contrary to section 21 of the Theft Act 1968, via threats to employment or reputation.
2. Harassment and Stalking under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, via coordinated targeting of individuals and reputational interference.
3. Surveillance Without Mandate, risking breach of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.
4. Unlawful Data Processing in breach of UK GDPR Article 6(1) and DPA 2018, using OSINT tools without consent or lawful basis.
5. Malicious Communications under the 1988 Act, section 1, including false and distressing material.
6. Computer Misuse under the 1990 Act, sections 1 and 3ZA, relating to unauthorised access and automated surveillance.
7. Use of a False Passport by at least one employee, potentially two. We have undertaken technical analysis of an unredacted copy of what appears to be an ICAO-compliant false passport, linked to your organisation. This raises immediate concerns under s.4 of the Identity Documents Act 2010, which prohibits the use or possession of false identity documents with intent to deceive. If this passport was fabricated without lawful authority, obtained from HM Passport Office fraudulently, or used for overseas travel, it constitutes a criminal offence. If it was issued or facilitated by a British government official, it raises grave constitutional questions about the use of covert powers to support or shield political activity under the guise of charity. We are pursuing FOIA disclosures from both the Charity Commission and Channel 4 to clarify the document’s origin and oversight.

We note your fabrications have targeted an innocent Jewish bookshop owner, and libel against Thomas Rowsell resulted in his innocent wife and children being detained under the Terrorism Act after a family holiday.

We will not tolerate libel. I reserve all rights.

Yours sincerely,

M. C. R. Reiners

Co-Editor, The Restorationist, https://restorationist.org.uk

About Gregory Davis

Davis is an interesting character who keeps a low profile, and to put it charitably, appears to be haughty, yet slightly unstable. He began stalking Michael Reiners' X account approximately four days ago from an account he claims to have abandoned in favour of the far-left echo chamber, Blue Sky Social.

His particular talents - which don't include writing, sadly - appear to be confined to clicking until the end of Google results for hours on end, sockpuppeting in whacky group chats, obsessing over Yaxley-Lennon's holiday photos ("i used geolocation"), and reverse-image-searching. It's the typically smug holier-than-thou midwit stuff for that end of the political continuum: Russian bot conspiracies; everyone's a Nazi; burn Tesla factories; billionaires cause all the problems.

• In 2020, he spent much time shopping whacky conspiracies theories about 5G and Covid-19 to gullible editors at The Metro;
• In October 2024, he mocked Karen Collock, the head of the Holocaust Education Trust, upon learning antisemitic Houthi supporters had attacked a Jewish community centre as children entered;
• He thinks Trump secretly wants to "ethnically cleanse" terrorists who raped and murdered Jews on Oct 7;
• In the same post, he inversely suggested it was permissible to harass Muslims at peaceful prayer;
• He spends much time cyberstalking online chess players for no reason and is very proud of his amateur Google sleuthery while bragging about aggression;
• He posts poetry about expecting to mess up his childrens' lives;
• He reposts extreme left-wing memes about "leopards eating faces" and uses linguistic markers such as "Øof" (note the first char).
• Despite trading in libel, his self awareness doesn't extend to defamation;
• He despises Liz Truss, Peter Mandelson, Lawrence Fox, Andrew Tate, Steve Bannon, Israel, Robert Jenrick, Rupert Lowe, Jordan Peterson, farmers, and Keir Starmer;
• He thinks the Qatar and the UAE conspire to effect a secret agenda and writes baseless conspiracy nonsense about mysterious "Russian-linked Telegram channels."
• He likes Greta Thunberg, the Green Party, Palestine Action, and the idea of renationalising Britain's water.
• He despises Elon Musk, encourages economic attacks on his companies, and thinks its acceptable to vandalise Teslas with painted swastikas.