On this day in 1943, a small group of Dutch resistance fighters carried out one of the most audacious acts of sabotage of the Nazi occupation, an operation that saved countless Jewish lives and struck a blow against the machinery of fascist persecution. Led by sculptor Gerrit van der Veen and painter and writer Willem […]
UKIP candidate hits historic low – two votes and counting
Pop the champagne corks at UKIP HQ, or at least crack open whatever discount lager remains after Nick Tenconi’s close protection goons have been at the drinks cupboard. The party that once shook up British politics has achieved a remarkable new milestone. In Thursday’s Stroud District Council by-election in Thrupp Ward, UKIP’s Lucian Aeris polled […]
UKIP appeals for twelve well-heeled disciples
UKIP has unveiled its latest fundraising wheeze, the “UK12 Donor Club”, a scheme to sign up a group of supporters so loaded they can afford, if they are mug enough, to keep both Leader and Chairman salaried for the year. Only twelve places, says Tenconi selling the scheme, as if they’re recruiting apostles rather than […]
Incense, irony and idiots – UKIP’s Birmingham farce
UKIP’s much‑trailed “Christian” march through Birmingham yesterday didn’t so much slide into farce as hurl itself headlong into it, with leader Nick Tenconi dutifully assuming the role of altar boy during a pre‑march prayer ritual staged, with unintended comic effect, outside a pub. Barely a few dozen supporters assembled outside the Fox and Goose pub […]
Advance UK’s by-election candidate: ‘Many young British women are whores’
Nick Buckley, the Advance UK candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, has posted a series of social media messages where he makes hugely insulting and derogatory claims about women. In May 2025, Buckley wrote on X: “Many British young women are whores but don’t realise they are.” In the same post, he claimed that […]
UKIP Whitechapel march banned as party ditches its rule book
The latest attempt by UKIP to stage a provocative march through Whitechapel has been banned by the Metropolitan Police. Claiming that the event, on 31 January, was to be apolitical and merely a “March for Christ” to reaffirm the UK’s Christian heritage, Tenconi was plainly trying from the outset to provoke a ban or a […]