Costello – jailed for inciting racial hatred Mark Collett and Patriotic Alternative are running scared following the jailing last week of James Costello for multiple offences of inciting racial hatred. Costello, whom they are describing merely as “a member of our community” despite being a leading member of the organisation, was sentenced to five years […]
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UKIP crooks and jokers try to capitalise on anti-migrant success in Llanelli
UKIP leader Neil ‘Liar and Cheat’ Hamilton, with anti-migrant campaigners at Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli Having stirred up the racist pot in Llanelli, which they claim now hosts their largest branch in the country, UKIP is trying to capitalise by holding a ‘general election hustings’ in the town at the end of the month […]
Braverman, Robinson to blame for Remembrance weekend of shame
So, after the hysteria whipped up by (now former) Home Secretary Suella Braverman and others that the pro-Palestine march on Saturday would disrespect the nation’s annual commemoration of its war dead, it was those mobilised by her inflammatory rhetoric that defiled the occasion – and how! Braverman deliberately provoked a far-right mobilisation on Saturday by […]
Patriotic Alternative nazis and holocaust deniers defile Remembrance Day ceremonies
Railing against Tommy Robinson’s call out to the football firm troops at the weekend as a ‘Zionist trap’, Patriotic Alternative, the neo fascist group run by Mark Collett, Sam Melia and Laura Towler, gleefully posted pictures of their activists besmirching the memories of the millions who died fighting fascism. PA is claiming 20 activities nationally, […]
Britain First leader abandons Remembrance weekend for Polish junket – then gets banged up at airport
Paul Golding (2nd from right) and Ashlea Simon (2nd from left) with MEP Dominic Tarczynsi (3rd from left) Having told his followers to avoid the Cenotaph at the weekend, Britain First leader Paul Golding was free to hop off on a fascist junket to Poland. So much more congenial for him and Ashlea if not […]
Jane Loftus – trade union and anti-racist stalwart
Searchlight would like to pay tribute to Jane Loftus, President of the Communication and Workers Union who died yesterday after a short illness. Having joined CWU in Liverpool in 1982, Jane became the first woman to hold the position of Chair of the Postal Constituency as well as the first woman to become National President. […]
Curiouser and curiouser: strange moves afoot in the surreal world of UKIP
Strange things are afoot in UKIP territory. In September, UKIP and Robin Tilbrook’s English Democrats filed an application with the Electoral Commission to register a merged organisation to be called the Patriots Alliance. This immediately provoked outrage among veteran former members of UKIP, who issued a statement denouncing the move. The statement read: ‘Mr. […]
1985-1991: the Searchlight War Crimes Campaign
Amassing evidence on Nazis who fled to the UK – Siobhan Hyland reflects on Searchlight’s investigations into Nazi war crimes more than 30 years ago, as part of a campaign to seek justice for victims and their families Anton Gecas on the August 1987 cover of Searchlight, with articles inside on his war crimes and the […]
Good riddance, we say
Sam Swerling IT IS WITHOUT a scintilla of regret that Searchlight reports the death of lifelong fascist and racist Sam Swerling, at the age of 83. He first came to prominence in the 1970s as a member of the far-right Monday Club. He had earlier been a member of the League of Empire Loyalists, one […]
Anti- Holocaust Memorial campaigner faces extradition
Vincent Reynouard ONE OF THE key figures in the anti-Semitic campaign against a UK Holocaust Memorial, nazi and Holocaust denier Vincent Reynouard (pictured above), was arrested last November while hiding out in a coastal resort near St Andrews, in Scotland, and now faces extradition to France. The decision in his extradition case is not expected […]
GB News – The loopy channel
The loopy channel Tweets by Bev Turner, the latest GB News star to put her foot in the proverbial, has Martyn Lester pondering how the channel selects its cohort of blundering presenters Sometimes I pause to wonder whether it is actually built into the contracts of GB News presenters that they must periodically say something […]
No mea culpa, as Bishop Williamson re‑emerges from the shadows
He kept a relatively low profile during the pandemic, but is now back on the extremist circuit, peddling anti-Semitism, conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial, as Richard Pembroke explains Bishop Richard Williamson, the notorious traditional Catholic anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, has a tendency to disappear from public view for a few years and then re-emerge, unable […]
‘No’ to a street named after an antifascist. The decision by Lucca’s town council makes headlines in Italy by Alfio Bernabei
Sandro Petrini, antifascist The town council of Lucca, one of Tuscany’s most treasured artistic places and favoured destination for tourists from all over the world, has rejected a motion in favour of naming a street after a leading figure of antifascism. Traditionally a stronghold of the left, the council came under the control of the […]
Far right groups crash out in Parliamentary by elections
The two recent Parliamentary by elections – in Tamworth and Mid-Bedfordshire – saw most of a hodgepodge of far-right candidates poll less than 5% and lose their deposits. Only Reform UK, the successor to the Brexit Party, polled (just) enough to keep their £500. The results for far-right candidates were. TAMWORTH Ian Cooper, Reform UK […]
UK far right splits over Hamas
The British far right has been predictably opportunistic and shameless, but also confused and divided, in response to the recent Hamas attack on southern Israel. A broad swathe of extremists, ranging from Nigel Farage to EDL founder ‘Tommy Robinson’, have tried to exploit the situation to promote Islamophobia. At the opposite pole are some of […]
Searchlight Exclusive: Well-heeled nazis in plot to obstruct UK’s planned Holocaust Memorial
EXCLUSIVE By Tony Peters Wealthy Holocaust revisionists across the world are planning a campaign against the establishment of a Holocaust Memorial in London. Plans for the memorial, intended both as a monument to all victims of the Holocaust and as a learning centre, have been advancing since 2015, but are now attracting the hostility of […]
From the archive: 40 years ago – when we first exposed NF links with fugitive Italian terrorists
It was 40 years ago…when Searchlight first exposed connections between Italian fascist fugitive Roberto Fiore and UK nazis like Nick Griffin. And all in connection with London tourist guides.
Anniversary conference exposes UKIP’s terminal decline
Thirty years ago, with much fanfare, the founding conference of UKIP took place at the London School of Economics with a very mixed audience of over 500 in attendance. This weekend, the 30th anniversary conference, again with much fanfare, was held in a former cinema in Newport, south Wales, but with only 65 in […]
Patriotic Alternative conference exposes weaknesses and international connections
Rogue’s gallery, left to right: David Clews, Laura Towler, Joel Davis, Mark Collett, Tony Hovater, Warren Balogh Fearful of internal splits and anti-fascist infiltration, Patriotic Alternative abandoned plans to stage their conference in an expensive hotel (as they have done at least once a year since the group was founded). Instead, they gathered in the […]
Nazis lied to charity to book conference hall
Left to right: David Clews, Laura Towler, Joel Davis, Mark Collett, Tony Hovater, Warren Balogh Patriotic Alternative leaders lied to a charity to book a community hall for PA’s annual conference. The conference was held at Waltham on the Wolds Village Hall, near Melton Mowbury in Leicestershire, last Saturday. As well as PA leaders, […]
