On 7 August last year, in response to direct fascist threats of violence against organisations helping migrants and asylum seekers, tens of thousands of anti-racists turned out to physically protect those organisations. It was a phenomenal show of strength and helped put an end to a week of horrendous racist violence. Searchlight wrote at the […]
Exclusive: Homeland defector exposes ugly truth behind ‘sensible nationalism’
Alex Bramham has always been on the right of politics. Last year he stood in the General Election for the right-wing Social Democratic Party. Before that he had been active in the Conservative Party in Manchester where he ran several times as a council candidate. He has also been a prominent activist in gay politics, […]
Apology and correction
Last Sunday (22 June) we ran an article about right-wing photographers who were taking pictures of people attending left-wing or anti-fascist demonstrations. Two of those pictured, including the person captioned number 2, have contacted us to say they have no involvement with the far right. Others have contacted us on their behalf. We are happy […]
Correction:
Yesterday, in an article entitled ‘Reform suspends branch chairman – for reporting concerns to police’, we wrote that the election agent for Reform UK in the recent elections to Exeter City Council was Mr Robert Sheridan, a barrister and husband of former UKIP and Brexit Party activist Alison Sheridan. Mrs Sheridan is now a Conservative […]
UKIP licks its wounds and ponders an uncertain future
One of the happy consequences of the recent local council elections – and there weren’t many – is that it seems to have persuaded UKIP Leader Nick Tenconi to keep his mouth shut for a while. In fact, there has been pretty much radio silence from UKIP HQ since the results came rolling in. Utter […]
‘Treachery’ to stop terrorism say nazi ‘intellectuals’
Those self-styled ‘nazi intellectuals’ at Heritage and Destiny magazine are very unhappy that we have paid tribute to Peter Marriner, the Searchlight mole in the far right for many, many years, who has just died. “Death of a traitor” trumpets their article, where they denounce as ‘treachery’ Peter’s success in stopping terrorist attacks. They write: […]