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 […]
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Sophie Scholl and the White Rose: anti-fascist resistance that still inspires
Eighty‑three years after their execution in Munich’s Stadelheim Prison, Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans, and their fellow White Rose resisters to Hitler remain among the most luminous figures in the history of anti‑fascism. Their lives were brief, their organisation small, and their resources meagre, yet their moral clarity and quiet courage continue to cut through […]
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 […]
‘The courage before our eyes’ – Greece reclaims photos of nazi executions
The Greek state has launched an urgent effort to recover a set of long‑lost photographs depicting one of the most searing atrocities of the Nazi occupation: the execution of 200 communist political prisoners at the Kaisariani shooting range in Athens on 1 May 1944. The images, unseen for more than eight decades, surfaced this month […]
Anti-fascists frustrate Britain First in Manchester
A day of resistance, a day of solidarity, a difficult day for the rump of Britain First losers who attempted to march through Manchester City centre and were several times disrupted by anti-fascists. At least 2000 anti-fascists came to town, determined this time to actually disrupt Britain First. Paul Golding will claim an attendance in […]
‘Nasty and violent’ Reform councillor jailed
A member of Kent County Council who was elected last year as a Reform UK candidate was jailed on Friday (20 February 2026) after he pleaded guilty to subjecting his wife to nearly a decade of controlling and coercive behaviour. Daniel Taylor was elected to represent Cliftonville division (in Thanet) in May 2025 but within weeks […]