Manchester Central Library on St Peter’s Square was recently witness to the horror of 600 racists marching behind a Britain First banner, the party’s biggest event to date. Yesterday, a smaller, more local demonstration by local people concerned about Donald Trump’s current State visit gathered to protest at this famous venue. From the start, a […]
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Far-right AfD triples vote in German local elections
Last weekend, citizens of North Rhein-Westphalia headed to the polls for the first local election since 2020. As Germany’s immigration debate becomes increasingly polarised, the far-right Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) is capitalising; amidst desperate calls to ban the party, their willingness to speak about the topics other politicians won’t touch is what makes them so […]
The curious case of Joseph Moulton and Flag Force UK
When a 22-year-old presents himself as a seasoned business consultant with international defence sector links, eyebrows are bound to rise. That is precisely the case with Joseph Moulton, the frontman of the UK’s flag-waving initiative known as Flag Force UK. While the campaign has been marketed as a grass roots patriotic movement, investigations suggest that […]
Britain’s racist upsurge – the view from the mosque
An elderly man sits beside me in the mosque. It’s Friday, our special prayer day, and although there’s another 20 minutes before the khutbah, this week’s sermon delivered in Arabic and English by our Imam, the place is filling up. Elderly gentleman, many of whom been in the UK for 60 years, line up having […]
Historic fascist turnout heralds dangerous times
There is just one major takeaway from yesterday’s Tommy Robinson-organised ‘Free Speech’ festival in London – 110,000 supporters of a far-right, racist agitator marched through London in the biggest public demonstration of fascism ever seen in this country. Just think how often we refer back proudly to over 100,000 people coming out to support the […]
Correction
On Saturday we published an article which said that Tommy Robinson’s close collaborator, Danny Tommo, was seen inciting violence earlier in the day at Robinson’s London demonstration. This was based on a contemporaneous account. However, having reviewed video evidence published online since we have concluded that this claim is not supported by the evidence now […]
UKIP rolls out red carpet for Reform defector – and psychic readings for £14.99
Cue the celebrations at UKIP HQ – they have a local councillor. The first for some time. Well, kind of. They haven’t actually won an election. Nor have they managed to slip a candidate into a uncontested election so they can take a council seat without the inconvenience of having to persuade a majority of […]
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. […]
The bishop who is the new link between Catholic radicals and far right
Although his name is not well known outside traditionalist Catholic circles, Bishop Paul Morgan has come to occupy a pivotal position acting as a bridge between radicalised Catholic splinter groups and the broader ecosystem of far-right politics. Consecrated as a bishop by the holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson, Morgan has quietly become one of the Catholic […]
Size isn’t everything as fuhrer Yerbury’s micro-party meets in Leeds
The men of the National Rebirth Party will know that size isn’t everything. And that’s good because today’s so-called National Conference, attended by around 30 desperate and misled souls, was a springboard into an empty swimming pool. We sat and watched them entering the Headley Verity Wetherspoons just outside Leeds City Centre. It’s not difficult […]
Sacking signals split in far right intellectual wing
Today the racist movement’s self-styled intellectual wing is again at war with itself, after the world’s leading far-right publisher sacked its chief editor in a fierce row over his close ties to Moscow. Recent Searchlight reports have highlighted the increasing bitterness of internal far right splits over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. These splits began well […]
Far-right leader says fellow anti-migrant campaigners are planning ‘domestic terrorism’
The leader of the far-right Great British National Protest has reported two prominent fellow anti-migrant campaigners to the police for planning what he calls “acts of domestic terrorism”. This will kill people Richard Donaldson, who set up and runs GBNP, posted yesterday that he had reported the campaigner know as ‘Clare Uniting Britain’ and her […]
UK-linked nazi group tries to start race war in Spain
The new Spanish nazi group Núcleo Nacional, whose masked leader was exposed in a recent Searchlight article, has wasted no time before trying to start a race war on Madrid’s streets. They have close ties to British nazis via Isabel Peralta, the European correspondent of Heritage and Destiny, who has twice spoken at H&D conferences […]
Mark Collett fundraising for Aussie nazi who led attack on Indigenous Peoples’ camp
Patriotic Alternative führer Mark Collett is today raising funds for a violent Australian nazi. On his social media accounts, Collett has published a financial appeal for Thomas Sewell, leader of the National Socialist Network, who is charged with leading a mob of fellow nazis in a violent attack on an indigenous people’s camp in Melbourne. […]
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 […]
Thousands raised by far right in Dundee ‘migrant attack’ case police say didn’t happen
From the moment UK fascists started to focus on a disturbing incident that happened in Dundee, Scotland, we knew something was wrong. A video, obviously made on a mobile phone, started to circulate on fascist social media channels. The footage showed two very young girls, probably in their early teens, in conflict with unnamed and […]
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 […]