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“If it’s yellow, let it mellow. if it’s brown, flush it down.” That was a water-preserving mantra from, if we remember correctly, California in the 1970s, which crossed the pond when summer droughts hit Britain later in the same decade. We can only imagine that the United Kingdom Independence Party misheard this sound piece of […]

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, has been at the gear again. In his latest online missive he rants that our rights and freedoms are being taken from us and he, fearless fighter for our futures, is “gonna scream it from the hilltops” Now, we have to ask: which hilltops are those, Steabhán? MacGillycuddy’s Reeks? The […]

No sooner did we point out that David Clews of the far-right Unity News Network could reasonably expect to have his collar felt for incitement during the riots than he dropped out of sight. There was much speculation that he’d fled abroad but then his name turned up on publicity material for an anti-Nato rally […]

Well, as we have noted elsewhere, the far-right conference season is upon us and first out of the blocks (appropriately perhaps) is Paul Golding’s Britain First who posted this charming scene earlier today. One of their members seems to own quite an upmarket garden shed, and they have dragged in a couple of TVs – […]

By Huw Davies The multi-aliased grifter, most commonly known as Tommy Robinson, was back in the UK in July to cause as much disruption as he could. But for a while it looked as though he might be a no-show for his own 27 July shenanigans, because less than five weeks before that he had […]

By Paul Gale Searchlight readers won’t be the least surprised that the first reaction of Britain’s far right groups after the dreadful murders of three young girls in Southport was to try to make political or financial capital from the atrocity. But in 2024 this also meant several rival factions pursued radically different analyses, whether […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

National Rebirth Party leader Alek Yerbury and his partner Katie Fanning have ramped up their bitter public dispute with rival nazi outfit Patriotic Alternative, of which Yerbury was once himself a member. Yerbury has already seriously cheesed off Patriotic Alternative leader Mark Collett by ridiculing PA’s strategy of building white homeland communities, and then successfully […]

This article appears in the Summer issue of Searchlight On Monday 29 July, a teenage boy armed with a knife entered a Taylor Swift-themed holiday dance class in Southport and attacked children and adults. Three young girls were killed, others seriously wounded. It was a terrible crime and a dreadful tragedy. A time for grief […]