A member of Kent County Council who was elected last year as a Reform UK candidate was jailed on Friday (20 February 2026) after he pleaded guilty to subjecting his wife to nearly a decade of controlling and coercive behaviour. Daniel Taylor was elected to represent Cliftonville division (in Thanet) in May 2025 but within weeks […]
Councillor quits ‘sinister’ Restore Britain after just two days
A North Northamptonshire local councillor has quit Restore Britain just two days day after defecting to it from Reform, describing Rupert Lowe’s new party “far more sinister than I first thought”. Cllr Darren Rance, who represents Brickhill and Queensway, announced on Wednesday that he and fellow councillor Jack Goncalvez were leaving Reform to join Restore […]
How Britain’s undercover police targeted the anti‑fascist movement
As the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) moves through its later phases, a picture is emerging of the scale and intent of police infiltration of anti‑fascist organisations from the late 1980s through the 2000s. The recent testimony of three veteran activists – Dan Gillman, Frank Smith and Joe Batty – has added shocking detail to what […]
From Searchlight 40 years ago – Bologna accused linked to London terror cell
In February 1986, five years after the event, Italian investigating magistrates believed their enquiries had revealed who had been behind the bomb attack on Bologna railway station in August 1980, when 85 people died and over 200 were injured. They presented a picture of a galaxy of actors, from the wealthy powerful men who planned […]
West country fascists up the stakes
Fascists in the west country have escalated their activities with a series of attacks and threats against anti‑fascists. An anti‑fascist fundraiser in Bristol was attacked last weekend, and further threats have been made against a Together fundraiser due to take place in Tavistock, Devon, tomorrow. Held at bay The Bristol event, featuring local anarcho‑ska outfit […]
Fascist boss tries to rescue beleaguered rockabilly singer
The anti-migrant march in Faversham last November led to some unfortunate consequences for up-and-coming local musician Dylan Kirk after he was unwise enough to take part – and to pose for a photograph with Paul Golding, the visiting leader of the far-right group Britain First. Kirk, a Rockabilly singer and pianist with a band called […]
Fascist singer’s London gig axed after protests
The Underworld in Camden, London, has cancelled the scheduled gig by Michale Graves, the far-right aligned American rock singer. We reported on Thursday that music fans were protesting at his proposed appearance at the well-known London venue, following his declared support for fascist groups like the Proud Boys in the US. Today, apparently following a […]
Tommy Robinson flees UK following ‘ISIS threat’
Far‑right activist Stephen Yaxley‑Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson, has announced on X that he has “left the country”, after a police warning of an ISIS threat against him. He is saying he needed time to “work things out” for the safety of himself and his family and suggested they may have to relocate. Robinson was […]
London venue to host US fascist singer
Next week The Underworld in Camden is scheduled to host a solo performance by Michale Graves, a musician whose early fame came from fronting the horror-punk band the Misfits in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But more recently Graves’ name has become increasingly linked with the American extreme right. Graves’ career began in the […]
Soft, pink branding, hard-right politics
The far-right, anti-migrant Pink Ladies in Kent are attempting to present themselves as a grassroots initiative concerned solely with women’s safety. Styling themselves ‘Kent Women First Pink Ladies – British Women First’, they have begun organising publicly in north Kent, and are advertising a meeting in Chatham next month. The group is a local offshoot […]
Yorkshire nazi had ‘library of terrorist publications’
A nazi-sympathiser from West Yorkshire has been sentenced to more than four years in prison after pleading guilty to a series of terrorist offences. 36-year-old Tygue Crowther was convicted of encouraging terrorism, disseminating a terrorist publication and six counts of possessing documents likely to be useful to a terrorist. He was arrested in June 2024 […]
Neo-nazi link investigated after Indian students stabbed in Russia
Russian authorities are investigating alleged neo-Nazi links after a 15-year-old boy carried out a racist knife attack at a medical university hostel in the city of Ufa three days ago, injuring several students and police officers. The teenager is believed to have had connections to the banned Russian neo-Nazi organisation National Socialism/White Power. Reports state […]
Remembering the Igman march – a defining episode of anti-nazi resistance
On a bitterly cold weekend at the end of January, thousands of people converged on Mount Igman in Bosnia and Herzegovina to mark the 84th anniversary of the Igman March, a defining episode of resistance during the Second World War. More than a mere act of commemoration, this year’s gathering carried a starkly political message: […]
Collett’s Patriotic Alternative puts brave face on dismal turnout
Fewer than a hundred far-right activists answered Patriotic Alternative leader Mark Collett’s call for a rally for “remigration” in Warwick yesterday, despite extensive online promotion. Even so, PA was putting a brave face on it, with their featured speakers posting later that there had been “a great turnout”. Held in the town centre, the gathering […]
Advance UK’s election campaign hit by backlash over candidate’s sexist posts
Advance UK’s campaign in the Gorton and Denton by-election has been seriously set back after a wave of anger, including from within its own ranks, over misogynistic tweets posted by its candidate, Nick Buckley. The posts, published by Searchlight last night and viewed thousands of times today, contained abusive and degrading remarks about women, particularly […]
Advance UK’s by-election candidate is Nick Griffin fanboy
Advance UK’s candidate in the forthcoming Gorton and Denton by-election, Nick Buckley, is an unashamed and self -confessed admirer of former BNP leader Nick Griffin, one of the UK’s leading fascists and Holocaust deniers. Buckley hosts a YouTube podcast called Nick Talks. A week ago, Nick Griffin was his guest, interviewed at length. But this […]
Tommy Robinson’s cameraman blows gaffe on Advance UK secret launch venue
Ben Habib’s Advance UK website tells us that next Saturday (7 February) the party will host a major members-only event to “unveil the first of our national policies on Restoration & Immigration”. But as for where this historic unveiling will take place, the website is coy, offering only vague hints about a location somewhere in […]
Police and Crime Commissioner censured for supporting anti-migrant protests
Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Katy Bourne, who has aligned herself with anti-migrant agitation in Crowborough, has been formally censured by the Sussex Police and Crime Panel. A formal vote of no confidence last Friday concluded that she has seriously undermined the impartiality expected of her office. Disrepute The motion, passed by ten votes […]
Tenconi’s UKIP clown show ‘walks with Jesus’ but needs a miracle
What made UKIP leader Nick Tenconi think that somehow the Metropolitan Police would change their mind about UKIP being allowed to march provocatively through Whitechapel last weekend? After UKIP was banned and forced to move to a central London location in October everyone (including Tenconi, surely) assumed the march called for 31st January would face a […]
Reform backs extremists causing chaos at Swale council meetings
When far-right activists once again halted a Swale council meeting last week, the most striking development did not come from the public gallery but from Reform councillors who later appeared determined to excuse, and even endorse, the disruption. And Reform’s rhetoric is earning them the backing of the extremists who have now twice caused meetings […]