Since the elections, the ultra-right Vox party has been busy mobilising street protests, but has failed to have a great impact. David Karvala warns, however, it is too early to relax This article originally appeared in Winter 2023/24 issue of Searchlight magazine In our Autumn issue we carried an analysis of the biggest Spanish far right […]
Party Time Is Over (Again)
Former BNP leader says it’s time for ‘direct action’ Mark Scholl considers the implications. In October 1981 a certain Nicholas John Griffin, then aged 22, stood as the National Front candidate in a by-election for the Croydon North West constituency. The party had been crushed in the 1979 General Election, because of very well organised […]
Breaking: UKIP chief sacked as magistrate
We did ask, back in October, how UKIP Chair Ben Walker could be appointed as a magistrate given the several criminal convictions he enjoyed, the most recent only four years ago for a string of building regulation offences, when he was fined £11,000 by Bristol Magistrates and branded a “rogue builder” by the local press. […]
Britain First wiped out in Wellingborough
Golding and crew before the result sank in Having polled just 477 votes, a paltry 1.6%, Britain First’s crestfallen leader Paul Golding went online this morning to observe that this was “a disappointing result”. For him maybe; not for us. He had his excuses oven ready, the main one being that, after all, “Wellingborough is […]
Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather (1934-2024), race relations pioneer and friend of Searchlight
Searchlight was saddened to hear of the recent death of Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather at the age of 89. She was veteran race relations campaigner and pioneer – the first Asian woman to receive a peerage and one of the first people from an ethnic minority to sit in the House of Lords, originally as […]
Watch out for the MAGA moms
Working the crowd (clockwise from top left): Moms for Liberty founders, Tina Descovich and Tiffany Justice, presidential contenders Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley and Donald Trump; to round off the organisation’s 2023 summit in Philadelphia singer Mary Millben belted out God Bless America. First published in Winter 2023/24 Searchlight magazine A ‘conservative’ organisation that spread to […]