As we approach Brexit’s tenth anniversary, the British far right is still trying to work out how to escape from two long shadows, Nigel Farage and Nick Griffin. Is the future course of British racism to be Farage’s populist imitation of Enoch Powell, or a Griffin-style tribute act based on mid-century fascist dictatorships? We can […]
Death of a (British) Ku Klux Klansman
One of the very few seriously active British members of the Ku Klux Klan died on 10 January aged 88. Ian Christie was originally from Dundee, but migrated south to Leeds after serving a short prison sentence and recovering from alcoholism. Christie’s drink problems were probably related to his political odyssey from the Communist Party […]
Homeland splitter joins ‘geriatric’ British Democrats
One of the central figures in the most recent split in the Homeland Party has joined the British Democrats, a party he previously described as “geriatric”. Kai Stephens, also known online as Barkley Walsh, joined the BDs just before Xmas and has since been appointed the party’s Norfolk organiser. In the last few days he […]
Neo-nazi terrorist attacked in prison
Jack Renshaw, the neo-nazi terrorist and convicted paedophile serving a life sentence for plotting to murder a Member of Parliament and other serious offences, has been the victim of a violent assault inside HMP Wakefield. The attack is understood to have taken place on 9 December at the high-security Category A prison in West Yorkshire, […]
Xmas woes as fascist YouTubers feel the pinch
Families nationwide are struggling to budget for Christmas, but spare a thought for some of Britain’s racist and fascist grifters who are feeling the pinch and whining more loudly than ever. Two of the loudest complainers are Sam Wilkes (known since 2021 as Zoomer Historian) and Colin Robertson (known since 2013 as Millennial Woes). Robertson […]
Far-right ‘strategist’ calls for murder of migrants at sea
One of Britain’s most prominent far-right ‘thinkers’, connected with the Homeland Party, is openly advocating the murder of migrants at sea. Pete North, who writes under the pseudonym Northern Variant, has used his latest newsletter to supporters to argue that “death is ultimately the most effective deterrent” against those attempting to cross the Channel. Chilling […]
Home Office turns blind eye to hardline foreign racists at nazi conference
The Home Office and UK Border Security have again turned a blind eye to militant racists entering the UK to speak at a fascist conference. Last Saturday, as Searchlight revealed a few days before the event, Jared Taylor spoke at Mark Collett’s Patriotic Alternative conference. It turned out he wasn’t to be the only one. […]
Newcastle: Advance opens the door to ‘Tommy Robinson’ and Tenconi is seen off
Newcastle had more than its fair share of far-right wingers turning up at the weekend, with Ben Habib’s Advance UK holding its launch conference in the city, and Nick Tenconi holding a demonstration with his UKIP goon squad. Ben Habib had planned a glitzy event to launch his Advance UK party, which has been endorsed […]
Two leading fascist activists arrested
Two leading far-right agitators have been arrested by police. The Dover-based online activist Steve Laws has been arrested by police in Kent, whilst fascist ‘intellectual’ Pete North has been arrested in North Yorkshire, Both were, till earlier this year, prominent in the Homeland Party. Social media silence Searchlight understands that Laws was arrested yesterday morning, […]
Mark Collett gives platform to unapologetic ‘The Order’ terrorist
Patriotic Alternative führer Mark Collett’s latest desperate bid for attention again puts his followers at risk of prosecution, all for the sake of his insatiable greed. Last weekend on one of his endless video streams Collett hosted Frank DeSilva, an unapologetic former member of the American nazi terrorist gang The Order. They discussed a recent […]
Thugs and nazi ‘intellectuals’ get together in Preston
On Sunday afternoon Preston in the north of England, witnessed the latest get together organised by the self-styled ‘intellectual’ journal of the UK’s nazi movement, Heritage and Destiny. And once again they had to lie to get somewhere to meet. In 2022, Preston-based H&D editor Mark Cotterill, who was excluded from the USA in 2002 […]
‘Independent’ county councillor speaks at nazi conference
A supposedly “independent” county councillor broke cover last weekend to speak at a conference in memory of the UK’s leading Hitlerites. Pete Molloy, an ex-BNP activist and currently a Durham county councillor for Spennymoor, was speaking at an annual event run by the self-styled “intellectual” nazi magazine Heritage and Destiny who again tricked their way […]
Home Office bans foreign nazis from UK conference
Two prominent foreign nazis were banned from attending a high-profile far-right gathering in the UK at the weekend. The event was the annual Heritage and Destiny conference held just outside Preston on Sunday. H&D is a magazine which poses as the theoretical journal of the UK nazi movement – with many connections to foreign fascists. […]
Epping activist arrest sparks new Homeland spat
Former Homeland Party activist Callum Barker, one of the leading figures in the far-right protests at the Bell Hotel in Epping, was arrested in Epping at the weekend. He was later bailed without charge. For the usual legal reasons we cannot comment on the circumstances or potential charges, but we can report that his arrest […]
Homeland Party leader filmed in drunken street brawl
Opponents of Homeland leader Kenny Smith have released a video of him involved in a drunken street brawl only two months ago. The video is only several seconds long but clearly shows Smith, apparently drunk and out of control, fighting in the street and being restrained by others present. Searchlight understands the incident occured in […]
Homeland Party chief warned ‘shut your mouth or we finish your political career’
Homeland Party duce Kenny Smith declared war on his enemies at a recent ‘Remigration conference’ and his enemies have now hit back – with threats that there would be consequences if he didn’t ‘shut his mouth.’ Smith was a guest speaker at a far-right conference in Norway two weeks ago. But he spent the first […]
After Epping – what next for the far right?
Many factions on Britain’s far right are scrambling to claim credit after the temporary High Court injunction ordered the removal of asylum seekers from The Bell Hotel in Epping. The Refugee Council and many others agree that use of hotels for this purpose should cease. But dog-whistlers on the right ranging from the Conservative Party […]
Patriotic Alternative treasurer’s mystery links to spooks and fraudsters
Within hours of Searchlight reporting yesterday on the death of Patriotic Alternative treasurer Steve Blake, some of the many online enemies of PA leader Mark Collett started making sensational allegations about Blake’s financial connection to fake businesses that were fronts for Russian intelligence. Blake’s involvement in the British nazi scene dates back to the early […]
Top nazi’s death is blow to Patriotic Alternative
One of Britain’s most secretive nazis and a key player in Patriotic Alternative, died this week aged 61. Steve Blake was PA’s Eastern England regional organiser and was listed as PA treasurer when what was then the country’s leading far-right group wrote to the Electoral Commission supposedly aiming to register as a political party. He […]
Homeland Party in crisis as hardliners demand leader Kenny Smith quits
Last weekend the Homeland Party’s obese duce Kenny Smith was posing in Vienna (above) as leader of “sensible nationalism”. His overseas liaison officer Martin Kuziel spoke at one of Europe’s best publicised racist rallies, sharing a platform in the Austrian capital with the “identitarian” leader Martin Sellner. But within days another wheel fell off the […]