So that’s it, he’s gone. Britain’s batshit preacher, the Reverend Calvin Robinson, boarded a plane today and swanned off to his new parish in West Michigan, USA. And we all heartily wave him goodbye. His departure was announced this morning on the right wing online New Culture Forum in what was billed as his last […]
When is ‘the accused’ not ‘the accused’? When he did it…
“Staff watched videos from outside the hotel, which was housing about 200 asylum seekers, as violence flared with police outside. Thomas Birley is accused of being part of that violence, the court hears.” The BBC, along with a number of papers, often seems to be arse-covering when there is absolutely no longer any need to, […]
The seafarers and rail workers who fought fascism
STEVE SILVER spotlights the role of trade unions in countering fascism VISITORS TO TRANSPORT UNION RMT headquarters in London can see a plaque with the names of over 100 rail workers and seafarers who volunteered to fight fascism in Spain, many of whom never returned. This article is an abridged extract from a new pamphlet […]
Far-right Reich group members face trial for treasonous plans to grab power
By Dr Kat Williams and Dr Siobhan Hyland. In May, the alleged leaders of the suspected German far-right coup attempt went on trial. The case shocked Germany to the core when, in December 2022, 25 individuals were arrested on suspicion of preparing for a violent overthrow of the German government and the installation of a […]
AfD beats governing Social Democrats in EU elections
Despite alleged links with foreign powers and remarks about the SS, leading to France’s National Rally pulling out of an alliance with the party in the European Parliament, Germany’s AfD made significant gains in the Euro elections. Dr Kat Williams and Dr Siobhán Hyland report The Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) election campaign for the European […]
The Searchlight secret agent who helped destroy the BNP
The British National Party probably never experienced such a hefty and concerted blow as it did 20 years ago, in the late summer of 2004. About half of the August issue of Searchlight was dedicated to hammering Nick Griffin’s nazi outfit, following through on The Secret Agent, a BBC documentary broadcast in mid-July, which had […]
‘I am proud of you, you are splendid!’
So proclaimed Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (right), lauding her party’s youth wing, even as a video emerged of its members praising Mussolini and Hitler. Alfio Bernabei reports Barely ten days had passed since the European elections in June, in which Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party consolidated its leading position with nearly 29% of […]
UKIP and English Democrats move closer to hook-up
UKIP’s annual conference, to be held in Nottingham on 4-5 October will mark a new departure for Britain’s fastest-shrinking political party. For the first time this will be a joint conference, held with Robin Tilbrook’s far-right English Democrats. Now, that may not be altogether surprising; the two organisations are already locked into a formal election […]
AfD election victory is win for nazis in disguise
By Werner Klein Germany’s far-right are celebrating their biggest election victory since the 1930s, after Alternative for Germany (AfD) became the largest party in one eastern German state and the second-largest in another. Yesterday’s results have strengthened the hand of the most extreme faction in AfD, the so-called Flügel or “wing”, headed by Björn Höcke […]
UKIP’s madcap plan to stop the boats – all of them…
“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 […]
Mixed fortunes for Russia’s far right assets
By Roger Pearce Vladimir Putin’s network of supporters among European fascists are celebrating today after the victory of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the eastern German state of Thuringia. AfD’s Thuringian branch is led by the Kremlin’s main German asset, Björn Höcke. They will have 32 of their state parliament’s 88 seats. […]
Yaxley-Lennon latest – they’re trying to kill me (honest..!)
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 […]
Clueless Clews does a runner
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 […]
Britain First conference held in a shed…
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 – […]
UK fascist groups split over post-Southport riots
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 […]
So, farewell then, Rev’d Calvin Robinson.
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 […]