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Ryan Ferguson and Harry Jackson in court over Liverpool hotel incident
Ryan Ferguson and his YouTube buddy Harry Jackson appeared before LIverpool magistrates today, denying a string of charges linked to an incident at a Liverpool hotel used to house asylum seekers. The pair are charged with threatening behaviour, racially or…
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Pipebombs, skull mask and far-right links, but convicted terrorist walks free
A 21-year-old right-winger from Bangor who downloaded terrorist documents, built improvised devices and boasted about constructing a pipebomb has been…
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Arrest warrant issued as Kent far-right agitator goes missing
Harry Hilden, the self-styled “Warrior of Christ” and principal organiser of Kent’s anti-migrant protest scene, was due before Maidstone Magistrates’…
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The nazi network that groomed a 13-year-old for terrorism
Last Friday the latest in a string of recent extreme-right terrorism cases concluded. A teenager aged 16 from a village…
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Empty seats, absent leaders – but never fear, Liz Truss is here…
Liz Truss has found her people. The former Prime Minister, whose 45-day tenure in Downing Street remains a monument to…
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Do not feed the animals: confronting the rise of the far-right ‘auditors’
A coalition of anti-racist and anti-fascist groups is mobilising against a new wave of far-right provocateurs hiding behind the guise…
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Patriotic Alternative host nazi get-together in Nuneaton
While tens of thousands of anti-racists marched in London last weekend, Mark Collett and Patriotic Alternative managed to muster a…
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French elections – far right gains in small town France but blocked in cities
France’s two-round municipal elections, held on 15 and 22 March 2026, have produced a verdict on the far right that…
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Crossbows, swords, and ‘Zyklon B’ canister – but no charges against BM members
Nine members of the neo-Nazi British Movement have escaped prosecution following a ten-month police investigation sparked by a gathering at which they celebrated Hitler’s birthday. Greater Manchester Police confirmed this week that all nine suspects, arrested in dawn raids last…
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Britain First’s ‘battle bus’ – the grift that keeps on giving
The Britain First ‘battle bus’ saga has taken yet another predictable turn, with Paul Golding now launching an online appeal…
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“Homosexuals are not cowards” – The man who bombed the nazi files
On this day in 1943, a small group of Dutch resistance fighters carried out one of the most audacious acts…
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Danish Election – DPP comeback as far right vote is reshuffled
Denmark’s snap general election earlier this week produced a clutch of headlines about far-right gains, but they were not as…
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Man who was ‘front and centre’ of far-right Hull riots jailed for six years
One of the leaders of the racist mob violence that engulfed Hull city centre during the riots of August 2024…
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Australian nazi leader faces trial over attack on sacred Aboriginal site
Thomas Sewell, the leader of the now-disbanded National Socialist Network (NSN), has been committed to stand trial over a violent…
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‘Shut down’ Bristol Patriots re-emerge with new name and hospital flag stunt
Well, that didn’t last long. The far-right gang formerly known as Bristol Patriots which announced only last week it was…
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UKIP’s only local councillor quits party after 6 months
Amid all the excitement around the walkout at County Hall in Maidstone last Thursday,it was barely noticed that among those…
International news
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The nazi network that groomed a 13-year-old for terrorism
Last Friday the latest in a string of recent extreme-right terrorism cases concluded. A teenager aged 16 from a village…
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Empty seats, absent leaders – but never fear, Liz Truss is here…
Liz Truss has found her people. The former Prime Minister, whose 45-day tenure in Downing Street remains a monument to…
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French elections – far right gains in small town France but blocked in cities
France’s two-round municipal elections, held on 15 and 22 March 2026, have produced a verdict on the far right that…
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“Homosexuals are not cowards” – The man who bombed the nazi files
On this day in 1943, a small group of Dutch resistance fighters carried out one of the most audacious acts…
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From Searchlight 40 years ago: Blueprint for genocide
In March 1986, Searchlight magazine exposed how the National Front was peddling a blueprint for extermination written by the leader of one of the most hardline nazi organisations in the United States. Published in the form of a novel, the…
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The gamechanger that wasn’t: how the Kremlin planned to rescue Orbán
Russian intelligence does not do subtlety. It does, however, do audacity, and an internal document obtained by the Washington Post…
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Ambulance fire bombing ignites far-right antisemitism
The arson attack on four ambulances belonging to a Jewish community organization in north London, set ablaze outside a synagogue…
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Patriotic Alternative nazi tried to kill man with axe
A member of the neo-nazi Patriotic Alternative has been convicted of attempted murder after admitting trying to cut a man’s…
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Joe Louis and the battle for civil rights
Joe Louis, who held the world heavyweight boxing title from 1937 to 1949, is remembered today chiefly as a sporting…
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Liverpool inflicts another crushing defeat on UKIP
The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and hoping for different results. Somebody needs to tell…
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Neo-nazi leader and Capitol rioter held on gun charges
The FBI has arrested Mathew David Bair, a leading member of the neo-Nazi accelerationist network Injekt Division, and convicted of…
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Tommy Robinson’s grand tour of America’s anti-democratic right
Tommy Robinson has spent much of late February and March touring the United States, and it has revealed much about…
Research and analysis
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French elections – far right gains in small town France but blocked in cities
France’s two-round municipal elections, held on 15 and 22 March 2026, have produced a verdict on the far right that…
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Respectability, ideology and networks – why Farage’s new adviser matters
Dr James Orr, a theologian and philosopher of religion at the University of Cambridge was last month appointed senior adviser…
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Farage, Reform and the ‘Russia question’ that won’t go away
In the wake of Nathan Gill’s guilty verdict on multiple counts of bribery for taking payments in exchange for pro-Kremlin…
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The Resistible Rise of Reform UK
The May election results were a warning, if one was needed, of the danger of an insurgent Reform UK. Sarah…
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Danny Tommo says ‘F*** Israel’ as Tommy Robinson woos Zionist right in America
One of the latest stops on Tommy Robinson’s U.S. tour was a swanky gala hosted by the right-wing Zionist Organization of America in Florida, further embellishing the far-right influencer’s pro-Israel credentials. However, back in England, one of his key confederates…
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Australian nazis in court over Anzac Day disruption
Three members of Australia’s neo-Nazi National Socialist Network (NSN) are to contest charges arising from their disruption of a dawn…
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Kent’s Reform council defies election law with migrant emergency motion
Reform UK’s Kent County councillors have declared an “illegal migration emergency” in the county despite warnings that to do so…
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How the American far right divides over Iran war
On 28 February the U.S. and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran, an ongoing bombing campaign that has already…
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Pirate ship rebel hosts far-right fight club
Growing up in the noughties and 2010s, I remember being told about the dangers of violent video games. Everybody from…
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UKIP’s Liverpool ‘March for Jesus’ condemned by city’s Christians
This Saturday, the streets of Liverpool are set to witness a deeply polarizing spectacle. Nick Tenconi, the leader of UKIP,…
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Restore councillor shares antisemitic, racist post
A local councillor who recently defected from Reform UK to Restore Britain shared a post on X containing the N-word…
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Reform council’s ‘illegal migration emergency’ motion pulled in row over election rules
A Reform UK motion to declare an “Illegal Migration Emergency in Kent” has been pulled from tomorrow’s Kent County Council…
Culture
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Fascist boss tries to rescue beleaguered rockabilly singer
The anti-migrant march in Faversham last November led to some unfortunate consequences for up-and-coming local musician Dylan Kirk after he…
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Fascist singer’s London gig axed after protests
The Underworld in Camden, London, has cancelled the scheduled gig by Michale Graves, the far-right aligned American rock singer. We…
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London venue to host US fascist singer
Next week The Underworld in Camden is scheduled to host a solo performance by Michale Graves, a musician whose early…
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How purple-haired cartoon ‘Amelia’ became a far-right icon
Amelia was never meant to be real. She began life as a cartoon character in a government-backed game designed to…
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Restore Britain and Advance UK in ‘full tilt’ feud
The far right’s much-hoped-for populist right realignment, meant to fuse Ben Habib’s Advance UK and Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain, has turned into the car crash we predicted. Lowe had already failed conspicuously to respond to Habib’s offer of a merger…
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From green campaigner to harassing Green MP – the radicalisation of ‘Steve James’
The radicalisation of the man known as “Steve James” – one of the men centrally involved in harassing and distressing…
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National Rebirth Party exits stage right as theatre throws them out
The National Rebirth Party had been promising their first national meeting of 2026 for weeks. Venue: somewhere in the West…
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The French far right and the martyrdom of a nazi street thug
When Quentin Deranque died on 14 February, two days after suffering catastrophic head injuries in a street fight in Lyon,…
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The man whose ‘nice debate’ meant police protection for a woman MP
Meet Alex Jardine. He’s very unhappy at the moment because he’s found himself at the centre of controversy. Hardly surprising…
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The promise that never was: Nigel Farage and the art of barefaced denial
It’s a script Nigel Farage knows well. Candidates or causes closely linked to him, perhaps even bearing his name and…
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Nazi publisher hit by raids across Europe
One of Europe’s most active nazi publishers has been hit by coordinated police raids in Germany, Poland, and Spain. Der…
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Isabel Peralta escapes arrest as nazis disrupt Women’s Day march in Madrid
Isabel Peralta, one of Spain’s most prominent neo-Nazi activists, and closely linked to UK nazis, was at the centre of…
Anti-fascism
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Together Alliance brings thousands to London to rally against the far right
If the organisers’ estimates of half a million attending are accurate, yesterday’s Together Alliance demonstration in London against the far…
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“Homosexuals are not cowards” – The man who bombed the nazi files
On this day in 1943, a small group of Dutch resistance fighters carried out one of the most audacious acts…
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Obituary: Leon Greenman
Auschwitz survivor and lifelong anti-fascist campaigner Leon Greenman died on this day in 2008. This obituary, in Searchlight, was written…
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The 22 martyrs of Plötzensee: remembering the anti-nazi Baum Group
In the heart of Hitler’s Berlin, a small group of young Jewish men and women chose to fight back. On…
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Heil and farewell – how Ryan Ferguson shut down the Bristol Patriots
Just days after their humiliating “March for Unity”, in which a paltry 40 far-right activists required the protection of more than 200 police officers, mounted units and repeated baton charges simply to shuffle through a shopping precinct, the Bristol Patriots…
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Grifters and gobshites – far right’s chaotic failure in Ramsgate
Last Saturday (7 March) the amorphous far-right ecosystem in the south of England pulled off the feat of staging a…
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Manchester – fascist thugs target women MPs
Fascists in Manchester yesterday tried to attack Hannah Spencer, the newly-elected MP for Gorton and Denton as she left a…
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Far-right chaos merchant may cost Reform in Margate
A former British National Party organiser in Kent may be about to throw a spanner in the works of Reform…
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Bristol – forty fascists, 200 cops, and a city that wasn’t having it
An embarrassing collection of around 40 far-right activists called out by the Bristol ‘Patriots’ attempted to march through Bristol city…
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Germany’s ‘anti-elite’ AfD rocked by nepotism scandal
The far-right Alternative für Deutschland positions itself as anti-elite; an alternative to Germany’s establishment parties. However, a strong culture of…
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Obituary: Leon Greenman
Auschwitz survivor and lifelong anti-fascist campaigner Leon Greenman died on this day in 2008. This obituary, in Searchlight, was written…
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UKIP candidate hits historic low – two votes and counting
Pop the champagne corks at UKIP HQ, or at least crack open whatever discount lager remains after Nick Tenconi’s close…
Holocaust
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Nazi publisher hit by raids across Europe
One of Europe’s most active nazi publishers has been hit by coordinated police raids in Germany, Poland, and Spain. Der…
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Obituary: Leon Greenman
Auschwitz survivor and lifelong anti-fascist campaigner Leon Greenman died on this day in 2008. This obituary, in Searchlight, was written…
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War criminal exposed by Searchlight will face trial posthumously
The Supreme Court of Belarus has announced that it will begin criminal proceedings against Antanas Gecevičius, better known in Scotland…
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Theatre review: Here There Are Blueberries, by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
This extraordinary production at Stratford East lands with the quiet, cumulative force of a dossier being opened in front of…
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War criminal exposed by Searchlight will face trial posthumously
The Supreme Court of Belarus has announced that it will begin criminal proceedings against Antanas Gecevičius, better known in Scotland as Antanas Gecas, for genocide. The case is scheduled to open on 18 March. The defendant has been dead for…
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Justice confirmed: Greek court upholds Golden Dawn convictions
More than twelve years after the murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, a Greek appeals court has delivered a decisive…
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Nazi paedophile pleads guilty to terror offences
A Cambridgeshire neo-nazi sympathiser, already convicted of serious child pornography offences, has been found guilty of a range of terrorism-related…
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The 22 martyrs of Plötzensee: remembering the anti-nazi Baum Group
In the heart of Hitler’s Berlin, a small group of young Jewish men and women chose to fight back. On…
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Tommy Robinson laughs (at you) all the way to the bank
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, the man who trades under the alter-ego “Tommy Robinson” like some pound shop superhero, has issued an ill-tempered…
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Meet Rupert Lowe’s latest recruit – a nazi jailbird linked to a terror group
Meet the latest recruit to be welcomed into Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain – one of the UK’s most notorious nazis…
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Big talk, tiny turnout for loud mouthed Worcester far right
For weeks, the “Patriots of Worcester”, a local far right group that operates and organises primarily on Facebook, had been…
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School faced wave of abuse after Tommy Robinson lies
A Glasgow school has been hit with a wave of abuse after Tommy Robinson circulated false claims online about an…
Today's top ten most read articles
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Meet Rupert Lowe’s latest recruit – a nazi jailbird linked to a terror group
Meet the latest recruit to be welcomed into Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain – one of the UK’s most notorious nazis…
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Big talk, tiny turnout for loud mouthed Worcester far right
For weeks, the “Patriots of Worcester”, a local far right group that operates and organises primarily on Facebook, had been…
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School faced wave of abuse after Tommy Robinson lies
A Glasgow school has been hit with a wave of abuse after Tommy Robinson circulated false claims online about an…
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Theatre review: Here There Are Blueberries, by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
This extraordinary production at Stratford East lands with the quiet, cumulative force of a dossier being opened in front of…
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Ex‑BNP organiser causes far‑right chaos in Kent
A former British National Party organiser is at the centre of an increasingly chaotic far‑right muddle in Kent, lurching from…
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Another far-right extremist jailed for terrorist offences
A 23‑year‑old from Buckinghamshire has become the latest right-wing extremist to be jailed for terrorism offences, Nicholas Gilpin, from Farnham…
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Fascists attack Manchester Stop The War meeting
After Britain First’s distastrous day out in Manchester last weekend, local fascists have tried to up the ante with a…
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Son’s jet set photos expose the Tommy Robinson poverty scam
Tommy Robinson’s insistence that he is a destitute family man living hand‑to‑mouth becomes rather harder to swallow when his son…