This year sees the 50th anniversary of David Edgar’s anti-fascist play Destiny, premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford in 1976. The play then transferred to the Aldwych Theatre in London’s west end and was then broadcast as a BBC Play for Today. Performed at the height of the National Front’s 1970s success, Destiny […]
No rest for the wicked: ‘Fash Harry’ back from hols and causing trouble again
Kent-based racist agitator Harry Hilden spent last weekend on a tour of northern England, demonstrating in Manchester and mouthing off in Leeds, with his associate Dean Phillpott in tow. That he had only recently returned from a holiday in Spain was apparent from his complexion. That it had done him no good whatsoever was apparent […]
Danny Tommo’s racist mob runs riot in Epsom
Far-right agitators and local racists, their rage stoked by Danny Tommo, have returned to the streets of the Surrey commuter town of Epsom, attacking police and properties on the basis of lies and disinformation about an alleged rape. Mobs have now attacked a local hotel and a house where migrants were thought to be living. […]
Happy ‘Hitler birthday’ greetings from Rupert Lowe’s nazi mate
A white supremacist who has joined Restore Britain and been pictured alongside the party founder Rupert Lowe today sent birthday greetings to Adolf Hitler on his Telegram channel. Chris Mitchell, the former East of England organiser for the neo-Nazi group Patriotic Alternative (PA) and a self-described “Nazi-Buddhist”, posted his message on 20 April, the anniversary […]
Sharon Osbourne under fire for backing far‑right
Sharon Osbourne – widow of the Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne – has caused much consternation by announcing that she will be attending the far-right Unite the Kingdom march in London on 16 May, led by Tommy Robinson. On 14 April, in a comment posted on a spittle-flecked rallying cry for the march from Robinson, […]
London synagogues targeted in antisemitic arson attacks
Three Jewish sites in London have been attacked in less than a week in what counter-terrorism police are now investigating as a concerted, antisemitic campaign against the British Jewish community. Finchley Reform Synagogue was hit first, on Wednesday, a petrol bomb thrown into the building. On Friday night, a former premises of the Jewish Futures […]