The far right’s favourite batshit preacher – big mates with Laurence Fox, Katie Hopkins and Tommy Robinson (no relation) – has decided to up sticks and quit the UK for pastures new. Or, rather, a parish new, though he won’t yet tell us where it is. He is of course, a ‘reverend’ in the sense […]
The two-tier policing that is letting the riot ‘influencers’ get away with it…
Well, there you go then! That seems to be the conclusion of at least some on the far right regarding arrests and charges arising from the Notting Hill Carnival. Which ‘there’ this data is meant to lead us to is far from clear. There you go then… assemble a huge, predominantly black crowd and there […]
United front blocked Le Pen’s path to power
Scaremongering about a so-called left threat failed to panic French voters. Instead, writes ROGER PEARCE, the majority set aside their differences, voting against Le Pen’s toxic xenophobia and so stopping her taking a step closer to the presidency As part of her effort to disguise a reinvention of French fascism, Marine Le Pen renamed the National Front […]
2024 European elections – a paradigm shift for the far right
This article originally appeared here on 14 June. It has been updated to include the far right realignments in the European Parliament following the elections. It also appears in the Summer 2024 issue of Searchlight, Shock gains for far-right parties right across Europe saw France face a snap election and Belgium’s PM resign. Although the […]
CAR26: the puzzle that is former UKIP Leader Lois Perry’s company
When Lois Perry video-thanked UKIP members for somewhat unexpectedly electing her as their new leader, she revealed that her focus would be on “future, family, food”. In fact, a fourth “F” would dominate her immediate plans – fleeing for the hills. What spooked her into quitting after mere days at the helm remains unclear. It can’t […]
Down in the UKIP snake pit …
If chopping and changing leaders were a competition, UKIP would be running the Tories a close second, though the calibre of its candidates is even less savoury. Tony Peters charily inspects the vipers slithering in and out of the pit. This article first appeared in the Summer 2024 issue of Searchlight When the previous issue of […]