26 years ago today we lost Baron Moss, one of the great unsung heroes of the British anti-fascist movement. Baron was one of the leadership committee of the 62 Group which decided to launch Searchlight as a newspaper in 1964. And it was Baron who brought together Gerry Gable and Maurice Ludmer to relaunch […]
Funds row splits Scampton anti-asylum campaign
NSD’s leader Alek Yerbury (left) denied all knowledge of irregularity, but Scott Pittsy (centre) quickly pointed the finger at Darren Edmundson (right) of rival outfit Patriotic Alternative for the missing cash THERE HAS BEEN serious friction down at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, where rival groups are campaigning against government proposals to house asylum-seekers on the […]
Edinburgh court orders extradition of French Holocaust denier
First published in the Winter 2023/24 issue of Searchlight magazine Reynouard Absconding risk means he is likely to remain in jail if he appeals HOLOCAUST DENIERs are panicking after an Edinburgh court judgment that threatens to end their use of the UK as a base for pseudo-academic anti-Semitism. On 12 October, Sheriff Chris Dickson ordered […]
Britain First by election cock-up
Having announced they were going to fight the Rochdale by election, Britain First have now gone strangely quiet on the subject and if you look for news of the campaign on their Telegram feed all you get are broken links. The reason? The clowns forgot to get their nomination in on time and are now […]
Rebalancing the ‘leftward’ drift – the return of McVey
The Prime Minister’s cabinet reshuffle enabled the removal of loose cannon Suella Braverman, leaving him with a ‘straight-talking’ shortfall. So back comes Esther McVey to inject some ‘common sense’. Martyn Lester is sceptical. First published in Winter 2023/24 issue of Searchlight magazine With this issue’s deadlines looming – indeed, technically passed – there has still […]
Ukraine and Gaza inflict four-way split on UK far right
The far right is seriously divided over current international events, leading to a peculiar mix and match of ideas. Paul Gale offers a guide to the resulting factions Which corner? In the Pro-Putin Zionist camp, Tommy Robinson (top left) and Paul Golding (top centre); in the pro-Putin anti-Zionist camp, Nick Griffin (above, right) during a […]
Homeland fascists given official go ahead to fight elections
The Electoral Commission have decided to allow the registration of the fascist Homeland Party as a political party which can now contest elections in the UK. Homeland has desperately been seeking registration ever since it split from Patriotic Alternative last year. Led by Scottish ex-BNP activist Kenny Smith (pictured), one of the main reasons it […]
Good riddance to the UK far right’s favourite revisionist
It’s boo-hoo time over at Heritage and Destiny, that vile little neo-Nazi umbrella outfit who have been campaigning more stridently than most on the far right on behalf of French nazi-loving revisionist Vincent Renouard. Renouard has been banged up in Scotland for over a year facing an extradition request from France so that he can […]
UKIP Feud – Rebecca Jane pours petrol on the flames
UKIP’s internal feud has just become even dirtier with Rebecca Jane, recently resigned Deputy Leader, pouring petrol on the fires by posting these private messages between her and Chairman Ben Walker where he slagged off leading members of the party’s NEC. Meanwhile, UKIP Home Affairs spokesman Steve Unwin pitched in, backing Walker, but setting back […]
UKIP tearing itself apart – Deputy Leader’s furious resignation tirade
UKIP Deputy Leader Rebecca Jane has resigned, hurling a barrage of highly damaging accusations at Chairman Ben ‘Rogue Builder’ Walker. Meanwhile, the party’s likely new leader is threatening to take it in a hardline climate denial direction. The resignation of Leader Neil ‘Liar and Cheat’ Hamilton has set off an incendiary chain of events which […]
State of the far right – our annual round up
Paul Gale looks at the ongoing reconfigurations of the various dregs of the extremist right, their activities and ambitions, electoral and otherwise PA chief Mark Collett (top left) is presiding over a shrinking party, pictured here with the now jailed anti-Semite James Costello (top right). (Bottom left to right): David Clews, who heads Unity News Network, […]
UKIP loses Deputy Leader as Rebecca Jane resigns
Just as Searchlight was revealing that UKIP Deputy Leader Rebecca ‘Barbie’ Jane was drafting a sick note, having learned she’d be trounced in the forthcoming leadership election by vile Islamophobe Ann Marie Waters she ups and resigns Deputy Leader. That means the party has now lost its Leader (Neil ‘Liar and Cheat’ Hamilton) and his […]
For Patriotic Alternative, inciting violence and terror is only ‘speech crime’
James Allchurch Laura Towler Spare a thought, if you will, for the plight of the UK’s neo-nazi ‘political prisoners’ […]
Honour for ex-62 Group fighter
Sir Gerald Ronson It really isn’t very often that Searchlight feels moved to congratulate someone upon receiving a knighthood, but we happily make an exception in the case of Sir Gerald Ronson, recently honoured for his services to philanthropy and the Jewish community. Gerald is, of course, best known as a hugely successful property developer, […]
UKIP and Laurence Fox in London mayor ‘liar’ spat
Putting aside all his legal difficulties – a libel case and arrest on suspicion of conspiring to commit criminal damage – Reclaim Party boss Laurence Fox is contemplating a run for Mayor of London. But a January tweet to that effect, including the claim that “It is always my wish to collaborate with the other […]
Patriotic Alternative’s US ally torn apart by internal feud writes Mark Scholl
A couple of months ago the American National Justice Party, one of the new political entities to emerge in 2020, appeared to be moving along at a reasonable pace with a series of local and regional supporters’ groups, several supporting podcasts hosted by leading personalities within the party, and a number of demonstrations held around […]
UKIP in desperate moves to shed reputation for sleaze and crookery
UKIP’s leader, the infamous “Liar and Cheat” Neil Hamilton is stepping down, opening up the way for a leadership battle and renewed attempts to seek mergers with other small far right groups. The decision was recorded at the party’s most recent National Executive Meeting where, apparently, “it was decided that it was time to elect […]
Glenys Kinnock: Staunch anti-fascist and friend of Searchlight
Glenys Kinnock, 3rd from left, alongside Joan Lestor MP, a former editor of Searchlight in the 1960s, at an ANC ‘Year of the Woman’ meeting, London 1984 Searchlight is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, a long-time friend and supporter of Searchlight who worked with us on […]
Le Pen’s UK rep and the man who believed synagogue bombing was “well intentioned”
So, if Marine Le Pen and her Rassemblement National have rejected antisemitism and now stand with Jewish people, how do they explain this? Her UK representative, Max Begon, recently addressing the conference of a party led by a man who once wrote that synagogue bombing was “well-intentioned”. As Searchlight has reported on other occasions, Andrew […]
Traditional Britain Group guest speaker offered to pay for “hit”
The far-right Traditional Britain Group has announced that the guest speaker at its annual Xmas Social in central London on 16 December will be Rhodri Phillips, or Viscount St Davids. They describe him as someone who “got himself into hot water for criticisms he made of the pro-EU campaigner and self-publicist Guyanese-origin Gina Miller, who […]
