The radicalisation of the man known as “Steve James” – one of the men centrally involved in harassing and distressing Green MP Hannah Spencer in Manchester the weekend before last – is a fascinating study in the political evolution of a far-right activist. James’s real name is Stephen James Jeffries and his early political engagements […]
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National Rebirth Party exits stage right as theatre throws them out
The National Rebirth Party had been promising their first national meeting of 2026 for weeks. Venue: somewhere in the West Midlands. Date: yesterday. Further details: none. Apparently the element of surprise was central to the strategy. It was not, as it turned out, quite central enough. By the time NRP members had finished hanging their […]
The French far right and the martyrdom of a nazi street thug
When Quentin Deranque died on 14 February, two days after suffering catastrophic head injuries in a street fight in Lyon, something else died alongside him: any honest account of who he actually was, or how he came to die. Within hours, the European far right had a martyr. Within days, it had constructed a myth. […]
The man whose ‘nice debate’ meant police protection for a woman MP
Meet Alex Jardine. He’s very unhappy at the moment because he’s found himself at the centre of controversy. Hardly surprising given his involvement in the Hannah Spencer incident in central Manchester last weekend. He’s complaining that he has come under fire from “the bloody lefties” for putting Manchester’s new Green Party MP in considerable distress […]
The promise that never was: Nigel Farage and the art of barefaced denial
It’s a script Nigel Farage knows well. Candidates or causes closely linked to him, perhaps even bearing his name and his photograph, make large, attention-grabbing promises. Votes are won on the strength of them. Then, once the votes are counted the promises are declared – with an air of wounded innocence – to have never […]
Nazi publisher hit by raids across Europe
One of Europe’s most active nazi publishers has been hit by coordinated police raids in Germany, Poland, and Spain. Der Schelm (which translates as The Rogue or The Knave) has been active since 2014 trying to exploit loopholes in European laws to circulate hardcore nazi material. Its founder Adrian Preissinger is now 61 years old […]
Heil and farewell – how Ryan Ferguson shut down the Bristol Patriots
Just days after their humiliating “March for Unity”, in which a paltry 40 far-right activists required the protection of more than 200 police officers, mounted units and repeated baton charges simply to shuffle through a shopping precinct, the Bristol Patriots have announced they are shutting down their Facebook page and suspending operations. And the man […]
Grifters and gobshites – far right’s chaotic failure in Ramsgate
Last Saturday (7 March) the amorphous far-right ecosystem in the south of England pulled off the feat of staging a demonstration in Ramsgate that was so little advertised, so poorly attended and so badly organised that it failed even to qualify as a non-event. Since late January 2026, the usual reception point for migrants crossing the […]
Manchester – fascist thugs target women MPs
Fascists in Manchester yesterday tried to attack Hannah Spencer, the newly-elected MP for Gorton and Denton as she left a rally organised by Together Alliance. She had to be driven away by police. Behind the attack was the small but well-organised group of fascist thugs who have been increasingly active in Manchester of late. They […]
Far-right chaos merchant may cost Reform in Margate
A former British National Party organiser in Kent may be about to throw a spanner in the works of Reform UK’s hopes of recovering a crucial county council seat in a by-election When we last reported on the tangled tale of Graeme Sergeant, the former BNP organiser behind the “Restore UK Kent)” Facebook group, he […]
Bristol – forty fascists, 200 cops, and a city that wasn’t having it
An embarrassing collection of around 40 far-right activists called out by the Bristol ‘Patriots’ attempted to march through Bristol city centre yesterday but were heavily outnumbered by anti-racist counter-demonstrators and had to be protected all the way by a large police operation. The fascist march, laughingly styled a “March for Unity”, assembled at the Cenotaph […]
Germany’s ‘anti-elite’ AfD rocked by nepotism scandal
The far-right Alternative für Deutschland positions itself as anti-elite; an alternative to Germany’s establishment parties. However, a strong culture of nepotism and cronyism has recently been exposed, potentially jeopardising the party’s chances of success as Germany enters a critical election period. Under German law, politicians may not employ their own family members or partners at […]
Obituary: Leon Greenman
Auschwitz survivor and lifelong anti-fascist campaigner Leon Greenman died on this day in 2008. This obituary, in Searchlight, was written by Julie Waterson, National Organiser of the Anti-Nazi League from 1992-2005, who herself sadly died in 2012.
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 […]
War criminal exposed by Searchlight will face trial posthumously
The Supreme Court of Belarus has announced that it will begin criminal proceedings against Antanas Gecevičius, better known in Scotland as Antanas Gecas, for genocide. The case is scheduled to open on 18 March. The defendant has been dead for 25 years. For anyone who followed Searchlight’s investigations in the late1980s into Nazi war criminals […]
Justice confirmed: Greek court upholds Golden Dawn convictions
More than twelve years after the murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, a Greek appeals court has delivered a decisive and final verdict against the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, upholding convictions against 42 defendants and confirming that the organisation operated as a criminal syndicate masquerading as a legitimate political party. The ruling, handed down in […]
Nazi paedophile pleads guilty to terror offences
A Cambridgeshire neo-nazi sympathiser, already convicted of serious child pornography offences, has been found guilty of a range of terrorism-related and firearms offences. Paul Page, aged 52, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey on Monday in an ongoing case in which he had admitted at an earlier trial to possession of a large amount of […]
The 22 martyrs of Plötzensee: remembering the anti-nazi Baum Group
In the heart of Hitler’s Berlin, a small group of young Jewish men and women chose to fight back. On this day in 1943, nine of them were beheaded by guillotine at Plötzensee Prison. They were mostly in their early twenties. Their crime was resistance. The Baum Group was founded in 1933, almost immediately after […]
Tommy Robinson laughs (at you) all the way to the bank
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, the man who trades under the alter-ego “Tommy Robinson” like some pound shop superhero, has issued an ill-tempered defence of his jet-set lifestyle in the face of a recent wave of criticism, not least of all from sections of the far right. And it is, we must say, intensely moving stuff. A profound […]
Tommy Robinson, rape campaigner – unless you’re white
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, has built a career on weaponising sexual violence allegations against Muslim men. Grooming gang scandals have served as his primary recruiting tool, his fundraising engine, and the moral justification he offers for an ideology rooted in anti-Muslim hatred. So it is worth pausing to examine what he does […]