Saturday’s far‑right mobilisation in Dover called by Danny Tommo fell completely flat, as might have been predicted. Tommo himself was absent, barred from the town after his recent arrest there, but his supporters had been urged to assemble for an “emergency protest” to “stop the boats”. In the end, barely twenty people turned up. Theatrical […]
The resistance heroes who stopped a train to Auschwitz
On this day in 1943, for the only time anywhere in Europe during the Holocaust, members of the Belgian resistance attacked a train carrying Jews to the death camp at Auschwitz and freed many of those being shipped to the gas chanmbers. That night, the eve of Passover, and the same night the Warsaw Ghetto […]
Police debunk rumours as Danny Tommo whips up disorder in Epsom
Danny Tommo – aka the former kidnapper and drug dealer Daniel Thomas – has had quite a fortnight. Banned from Dover, stripped of his fundraising accounts and reduced to browsing boatyards without actually buying anything, he has found a fresh town to exploit with a fresh grievance. This time it is Epsom, Surrey, where a […]
Nazi teenager threatened mass shooting at college
A Welsh teenager who threatened to carry out a mass shooting at his college, compiled a nine-page murder manifesto and filmed himself performing Nazi salutes has escaped a custodial sentence after a court heard he was driven by isolation, mental health problems, and substance misuse. Theodore Hopes, 18, from Llandrindod Wells, pleaded guilty at Merthyr […]
Remembering Budapest’s Jews slaughtered on the banks of the Danube
Each April, at this time, Budapest confronts one of the darkest chapters in its history: the mass murder of Jews from the city’s ghetto in the final months of the Second World War. By late 1944, Hungary’s Jewish population had already endured ghettoisation, forced labour and the deportation of hundreds of thousands to Auschwitz. Racial […]
Kent Reform’s Head of Economic Development who can’t pay his bills
David Wimble sits on Kent County Council’s Cabinet, holds seats on Folkestone and Hythe District Council and New Romney Town Council, and has declared his ambition to stand as Reform UK’s parliamentary candidate for Folkestone and Hythe. He presents himself as a serious public figure. But according to an investigation by Shepway Vox, the local […]