Fighting against racism and fascism
Ex-Reform now independent MP Rupert Lowe reacts hysterically to the sight of a rowing boat off the Norfolk coast, sparking an interception by HM Coastguard…
…who discover that they are three men and a woman rowing from Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise money for charity.
The deranged MP was so embarrassed that he has donated £1,000 to the charity to cover his blushes.
An all-time low for All Time Lowe?
To investigate fascists takes real courage and unusual commitment. The government, police, mainstream media occasionally take a look, but in the UK only Searchlight have kept at it, relentlessly and admirably, regardless of threat or obstacle. It’s journalism that matters. A rare thing.
Searchlight’s voice is more important than ever, and I am delighted that it will now be available to a wider audience than ever before in its new incarnation online. Searchlight has been extremely helpful over the years in exposing the far right, corruption, criminality and the murky links between organised crime and powerful interests in the UK and abroad. I wish Searchlight the very best.
British Jews have been persecuted over the centuries; British blacks since the Windrush generation of the 1950s; British Muslims, especially after the Islamist 9/11 and then 7/7 terrorist attacks in New York 2001 and London 2005. But until the last few years there has not been a simultaneous threat against all three British communities of Jewish, Black and Muslim Britons – meaning the need for Searchlight has never been greater.