Some of the most active British nazis of the past twenty years (including convicted criminals) are rallying behind Rupert Lowe’s newly registered political party Restore Britain. The virus has spread beyond a handful of online celebrity extremists and includes people with experience in the real political world as well as the virtual one. Lowe now […]
Crossbows, swords, and ‘Zyklon B’ canister – but no charges against BM members
Nine members of the neo-Nazi British Movement have escaped prosecution following a ten-month police investigation sparked by a gathering at which they celebrated Hitler’s birthday. Greater Manchester Police confirmed this week that all nine suspects, arrested in dawn raids last May, have been released from bail with no further action. Despite uncovering what officers themselves […]
Advance candidate at ease in company of known fascists
Further evidence that Advance UK is relaxed about working with established extremists comes in the form of a lengthy online interview that Gorton & Denton candidate Nick Buckley has given to the far‑right National Housing Party. Despite its almost whimsical name, the organisation’s ideological lineage is unmistakably fascist. It emerged in the early 2020s under […]
The hardcore nazi campaigning for Advance UK
One of Britain’s most active nazis has been campaigning for Advance UK candidate Nick Buckley at this week’s Gorton & Denton by-election. Steve Smith, best known as organiser of Burnley BNP during the early 2000s, was photographed out on the campaign trail for the Advance candidate last weekend, and Buckley himself happily posted this photo […]
Far-right merger collapses as Ben Habib slams ‘dictator’ Lowe
The uneasy courtship between Ben Habib’s Advance UK and Rupert Lowe’s newly-launched Restore Britain party has collapsed into open hostility, with Habib issuing an extraordinary nine‑minute denunciation of Lowe’s leadership, structure and political direction. The intervention confirms Searchlight’s earlier reporting on the factional tensions simmering beneath the right‑populist realignment, and suggest that the attempted consolidation […]
Will Rupert Lowe ‘Unite the Right’?
The British far right has spent the past decade talking about “Uniting the Right” while doing almost everything possible to avoid it. From the wreckage of the BNP through the serial reinventions of UKIP and the endless splintering of various fascist micro‑parties, the movement has been defined less by ideological coherence than by personal fiefdoms, […]