Saturday was a very bad day indeed for the fascists of UKIP. Leader Nick ‘Lonely’ Tenconi waited an hour to join his racist assemblage of thugs, hooligans, convicted criminals and fascist sympathisers and, when he did, anti-fascists physically pushed him against the war memorial opposite Liverpool Lime St Station and pinned him there. Massive effort […]
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Revealed: mystery man behind launch of new Spanish nazi party
An investigation by Searchlight’s contacts in Spain has uncovered the identity of a masked man behind the launch of a new Spanish nazi party – and the reasons he wants to hide. Also involved is one of the best known younger Spanish nazis, Isabel Peralta, who has twice spoken at nazi conferences in the UK […]
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 […]
How John Tyndall helped cover up a racist murder
It is a very long time since I was a Searchlight mole inside the British fascist movement. Over 30 years and how time flies. I only visit the UK irregularly as I’m based in West Africa. Sometimes memories come flooding back. And this one was inspired by watching a Netflix cold case drama. It was […]
‘Tommy Robinson’ enjoys sixth luxury holiday in a year…and guess who’s with him
Tommy Robinson is on another expensive Mediterranean holiday, this time in Northern Cyprus, in a villa in Kyrenia. It’s the sixth luxury holiday Robinson – real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – has enjoyed in 12 months, after earlier stays in Aya Napa, the Bahamas, Tenerife, the Costa Blanca and Portugal. And these are just the ones […]
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 […]
Liverpool anti-fascists go toe to toe with far-right thugs and see them off
Today, in Liverpool, reporting for Searchlight, I found myself in the forefront as anti-fascists fought off a violent mob of fascists, Ulster loyalists, and right-wing football hooligans. We didn’t know what to expect. Passing through Liverpool city centre we enjoyed seeing an African guy singing to a large crowd, an Iranian playing his violin and […]
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 […]
All time Lowe…
Ex-Reform now independent MP Rupert Lowe reacts hysterically to the sight of a rowing boat off the Norfolk coast, sparking an interception by HM Coastguard… …who discover that they are three men and a woman rowing from Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise money for charity. The deranged MP was so embarrassed that he […]
‘Open letter’ sparks open revolt in Homeland
The Homeland Party is facing an imminent and damaging split, as dissidents supporting Steve Laws have submitted an open letter to the party’s ruling council calling on Kenny Smith to resign. Supporters of party chief Smith are known to be in panic mode and trying to calm down what is growing dissent with Smith’s strategy […]
Has Tommy Robinson thrown UKIP under the bus?
Tommy Robinson’s decision to join up with Ben Habib’s Advance UK is a moment of crisis for UKIP, which has been betting everything on winning that alliance themselves. In recent months, UKIP Chairman Ben ‘Rogue Builder’ Walker and Leader Nick Tenconi have allowed the organisation to wither and fall into disrepair, as they ploughed all […]
‘Threats, bullying, lies, harassment’ – former supporter accuses ‘Team Tommy Robinson’
Clare Walsh and James Hodges, aka The Viking, are highly-capable organisers and for some time have been front and centre in promoting anti-migrant demonstrations in the north of England. Clare, with her energy, glamour and determination, came into the movement all guns blazing. But with a worrying naivete. Centrally involved She has poured her soul […]
Tommy Robinson joins Ben Habib’s Advance UK
Tommy Robinson has announced that he is joining Ben Habib’s Advance UK party, and is calling on his followers to do the same. The move was announced in a video which Robinson posted yesterday. It was filmed in central London but shows signs of having been recorded before Robinson fled the country after an assault […]
Reform UK selects UKIP branch officer as election candidate
The Reform UK vetting system appears to have suffered another glitch, but not the usual type where nutjob extremists are given a clean bill of health to stand as election candidates. In this case, Reform has selected a man officially listed as a serving officer in UKIP as a council election candidate. Nick Wood is […]
Manchester – latest chapter in Britain First’s slow death
Britain First leadership was confidently predicting thousands of marchers for its event today in Manchester. It turned out to be considerably less than that with estimates varying between 400 and 700. Only the BBC placed the numbers present at over 1000. This was certainly more than at its previous recent marches in Nuneaton and Birmingham, […]
The ‘stay behind’ NATO operation behind the Bologna bombing
The massacre on 2 August 1980 at Bologna railway station when a bomb planted by fascists killed 85 people, including two British students, Catherine Mitchell and John Andrew Kolpinski, will be remembered on this 45th anniversary with the usual ceremony under the clock with frozen arms at 10.25, the moment of the explosion. But a […]
Sweden ‘remigrates’ PA leader Mark Collett
Patriotic Alternative leader Mark Collett is a very unhappy chap tonight. Travelling to Sweden to address a ‘Free Sweden’ event tomorrow (Saturday) he decided to get there a couple of days early to enjoy the camaraderie of his Nordic nazi mates. But the Swedish authorities had other ideas. He was held at Stockholm airport and […]
‘National Protest’ organiser suggests funds pay for his mortgage and ‘washing machine repairs’
Great British National Protest organiser Richard Donaldson has infuriated his far-right supporters by appearing to suggest online that their contributions to his crowd funder are paying for his mortgage and repairs to his broken down washing machine. Donaldson, an ex-soldier who has become a high-profile if controversial figure on the far right, raised over £30,000 […]
Tommy Robinson – what we know about the St Pancras incident
After an altercation at St Pancras station in London on Monday evening, which ended with an elderly man unconscious on the ground, Tommy Robinson quickly fled the country, apparently to Spain. This is what we know so far about what happened: Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was in London on Monday for two appointments. The […]