Tucked away today in a corner of St. Peter’s Square, Manchester, a small and unrepresentative gathering of fascists, racists, and assorted bigots once again attempted to bring hatred and shame to the city. Under the banner “Patriots Against Grooming,” the rally featured so-called “auditors” and far-right figures, including English Ned, Kelsea Rouge, Ben Mills, Brexit […]
National Rebirth Party rolls out latest retro-nazi fashion statement…
Shoppers in Havant were treated to an unexpected catwalk show last week, as the National Rebirth Party rolled out yet another impeccably ill-advised fashion statement. Because apparently, the far-right’s real rebirth is happening in the menswear department. Aesthetic drift After the ridicule, from both left and right, that greeted party leader Alek Yerbury’s aesthetic drift […]
PA nazis panic over Searchlight report about their jailed comrade
Patriotic Alternative comrades of jailed race hate nazi James Costello are in a panic over our recent article which may delay his early release from prison. Only hours after we published our piece, the name of Costello’s Telegram Channel, where a link to a hardline nazi site had been posted while Costello was in prison, […]
How Reform’s ‘shop window’ council brought chaos to Kent
When Reform UK swept to power at Kent County Council last May, the victory was heralded as a populist revolution. After decades of Conservative dominance, Reform’s 57-seat majority promised a new era of straight-talking efficiency and common-sense governance. Six months later, that promise has curdled into farce. Leaked recordings, mass expulsions, and paralysed committees have […]
Has neo-nazi posted racist propaganda from jail?
The convicted nazi James Costello is due to be released on license from prison this month. And already his comrades in Patriotic Alternative are crowing about it. But his Telegram feed has promoted material which ought to give the prison service and the probation service second thoughts about his suitability to be let out early. […]
Kent ‘Pink Ladies’ left red-faced at shrinking numbers
In September, local activists had only a few days to organise a counter demonstration to an event planned by racists and fascists trying to sow division in Dartford. On that occasion 200 far right congregated in Dartford Town Centre and the counter demonstration mustered 30. Two months later on a sunny November day last weekend, […]
Britain First declares ‘massive victory’ after buying back their ‘battle bus’ at auction
Britain First have got their ‘battle bus’ back and are hailing it a “massive, massive victory” over Manchester police. It really isn’t: in fact, they had to fork out thousands at a police auction to retrieve it from the consequences of their own stupidity. Playground insults The saga began when party leader Paul Golding decided […]
Twice as many far-right referrals to Prevent as Islamist cases
Searchlight has argued before that the threat from far-right extremism in the UK now outstrips that coming from radical Islamists. Latest Home Office figures from the Prevent programme support that view. They reveal that the number of individuals referred to the programme for concerns over far-right extremism is more than double those flagged for Islamist […]
‘They’re eating the dogs!’ – Tenconi migrant rant sparks ridicule
UKIP leader Nick Tenconi has plumbed the depths of idiocy, even by his own cretinous standards, posting online a video filmed in Calais in which he speculates that razor wire surrounding a dog training park is intended to protect animals from being eaten by migrants. This time, not even his own supporters are coming out […]
Murderous arson attack on Irish refugee centre
A potentially deadly blaze at at an Irish refugee centre on Friday evening was deliberately started by masked men who broke into the building, set the fire and tried to prevent residents from escaping. The fire was started at an International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) centre in Drogheda, Co Louth, housing asylum seekers including families […]
College Vice-Chair who marched with fascists resigns
The Vice Chair of Exeter College of Further Education has resigned from its board after being seen marching with fascists in Exeter last weekend. Patrick Tigwell, who was appointed to the Exeter College Board as a governor in 2022 and became Vice Chair two years later, was pictured on Saturday draped in a union flag […]
Danny Tommo’s wet weekend in Southampton
It was a wet weekend for the Southport riot-inciter Danny Tommo, one of Tommy Robinson’s closest mates. After doing his level best to wind things up in Southampton he ended on Sunday distinctly the worse for wear – soaked in urine and pepper sprayed by the police. Riot inciter Tommo – a convicted kidnapper – […]
Unholy alliance as Reform UK in Exeter cosy up to Britain First
Reform UK’s Exeter branch is under growing pressure to explain itself as some its most prominent local figures are associating – both online and on the ground – with the openly fascist Britain First. Last Saturday Exeter witnessed the first far-right mobilisation in the city since the English Defence League’s appearance in 2013. Though the […]
Police authorise destruction of Britain First battle bus
As we predicted , Britain First leader Paul Golding has found it very difficult – in fact impossible – to get new insurance for his ‘laughably named ‘battle bus’ which languishes in a police pound in Manchester. As a result, we are moving close to the time when the police will simply crush or auction […]
International far-right, pro-Putin axis launched in Russia
Last month, St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Palace — the city’s Legislative Assembly building — quietly hosted a meeting which led to the formation of a new international alliance of the extreme right across Europe. Within its historic chambers, an international congress brought together far-right, neo-Nazi and ultra-nationalist movements under the banner of the newly declared ‘International […]
The elite funders behind Italy’s far-right CasaPound movement
A covert network of high-profile financiers – including diplomats, academics, lawyers, military officials, and media figures – has been secretly funding Italy’s neo-fascist CasaPound movement, according to newly uncovered internal documents. The group, calling themselves the “Gli Unici” (The Unique Ones), was established in 2017, a year ahead of Italy’s 2018 general elections, with the […]
Remembering the massacre at Kerdyllia
As dawn broke on 17 October 1941 in the villages of Ano Kerdyllia and Kato Kerdyllia in the Serres region of northern Greece, the tranquillity of mountain-life was shattered. German troops, who had been hunting partisans in the area, rounded up some 230 men – estimates vary – forced them to dig mass graves, shot […]
Terror case throws spotlight on neo-nazi British Movement
The conviction of Brogan Stewart, a Wakefield-based neo-nazi sentenced today to 11 years for plotting terrorist attacks on mosques and synagogues, throws a spotlight on the activities of British Movement, one of the UK’s most longstanding and notorious neo-nazi outfits. American terrorist Stewart, 25, was the self-styled “Fuhrer” of Einsatz 14 (Mission 14) an online […]
Traditional Britain Group conference – posh venue doesn’t relieve the tedium
Well, if the UKIP conference in Gloucester at the weekend was the low point of the fascist conference season, the annual get together of the Traditional Britain Group in central London on Saturday wasn’t very far behind. It was held at the Paddington Hilton, a fact that Searchlight was able to publicise the night before […]
Police threaten to crush Britain First ‘battle bus’
Police in Manchester are threatening to crush the Britain First ‘battle bus’ unless leader Paul Golding can come up with new insurance within the next few days – and that may not be as easy as it sounds. But first, let’s recap: three weeks ago, Paul Golding and his co-leader Ashlea Simon drove their ill-named […]