Content warning: this post concerns and shows highly offensive racist propaganda. This particularly nauseous post appeared recently on the Berkshire UKIP Facebook page run by Gary Johnson, Director of UKIP Ltd, NEC member, South East Regional Chair and apparently Chair of any number of fantasy UKIP branches in Berkshire and at least six other counties. […]
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Nostalgic right wingers gather on St George’s Day
Alan Harvey While Tommy Robinson’s chums are tramping through London on St George’s Day, there will be an altogether more sedate gathering at the Civil Service Club, in Westminster. The Springbok Club, an outfit dedicated to commemorating all that was wonderful about apartheid South Africa and pre-majority rule Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), will be addressed by […]
Nick Griffin in last ditch attempt to resurrect his political career.
Nick Griffin is attempting one last return to the leadership of British fascism. As Searchlight has expected, he is formalising links with the Independent Nationalist Network, a faction mainly based in the Midlands. The INN was formed as a split from Mark Collett’s Patriotic Alternative, and it includes some of the many PA members who […]
25 years on: The hunt for the London nailbomber
On 17 April 1999, a Saturday afternoon, a nail bomb tore through a busy market area in the centre of Brixton, south London. It was to herald the start of a deadly neo-Nazi terror campaign, and a desperate hunt for those responsible in which Searchlight was to play an important part. The bomb was a […]
Far right blame game starts over ‘feeble’ election showing
British fascists are blaming each other and sinking further into mutual mudslinging after the far right’s many factions failed to nominate candidates in most areas at the local council elections on May 2nd. Influential neo-nazi umbrella group, Heritage and Destiny, lost no time in going online after nominations closed to describe the right wing showing […]
Far right candidates in forthcoming local council elections
Information from local councils is still coming in, and a complete picture may not emerge till Monday, but as things stand, these are fascist and far right candidates in the upcoming local council elections: The British Democrats are standing Jim Lewthwaite in Wyke ward, Bradford and Chris Bateman in Castledon & Crouch ward, Basildon. And, […]
Review: Nachtland @The Young Vic
Review by Andrew Weir L to R: John Heffernan, Jane Horrocks, Jenna Augen The latest example of Germany’s never-ending self-interrogation about Hitler is the darkly satirical play Nachtland – it translates as ‘night-land’ or ‘night-nation’ – by Marius von Mayenburg which closes at London’s Young Vic on 20 April. The choice of date to end […]
Traditional Britain emerges from the shadows
by Richard Pembroke The Traditional Britain Group has seen some significant changes over the last 18 months, with expanded internet activity, including a strategic refocus on social media – probably overdue considering the increasing use of the internet by other far-right and extremist groups. These moves can, perhaps, in part be attributed to some significant […]
AfD support falls after plans for mass deportations spark demos across Germany
Support for Germany’s far right AfD has dipped below 20% for the first time since mid-2023, after massive demonstrations across the country against plans for mass deportations which the AfD had been secretly discussing with other extreme right wingers. The revelations came from investigative group Correctiv which revealed in November that senior AfD politicians and […]
The Authoritarian Personality 2.0 – The trials and tribulations of Alek Yerbury
Britain’s newest neo-Nazi political party has been launched and is officially registered to fight elections. It is led by a much-ridiculed Hitler-lookalike. So is it a joke or to be taken seriously? Mark Scholl investigates… Though he pretty much fits the bill for the title Modern-day Authoritarian Demagogue (and who are we to deny him […]
Justice catches up with antisemitic ex-barrister
On Thursday justice finally caught up with Ian Millard, a prolific and rancid antisemite. Millard was once a barrister but has been a persistent if fringe presence on the neo-nazi scene since the late 1970s. He once ran his own micro-party and was closely associated with Lucy Roberts (alias Ludmilla Baack), a leading officer in […]
UKIP trounced in Llanelli local elections
Good to see that, despite their efforts at whipping up hatred in Llanelli, south Wales, UKIP failed miserably in the local elections , which, unusually, were held on a Wednesday. Their candidate, an anti-net zero former barrister, Hettie Sheehan, polled a mere 27 votes (4.3%) in the county election for Elli ward, and 43 votes […]
UKIP Chairman in desperate efforts to plug leaks
UKIP’s disgraced Chairman, Ben Walker, recently fired as a JP for misleading the authorities about his criminal record, may be wishing he was a plumber rather than just a ‘rogue builder’, such are the leaks springing from his floundering boat. The party’s UK Activists Forum WhatsApp group, supposedly the ‘top secret’ preserve of trusted leading […]
Muslim war memorial plan brings out the bigots
Laura Towler, Patriotic Alternative deputy leader plumbed new depths when responding to Jeremy Hunt’s budget announcement of £1m for a memorial to 1.5 million Muslims who died in WW2, she posted: “What is there even left left to say anymore?” And. not one to be outdone in the sheer vileness stakes, Laurence Fox contributed this:
Tommy Robinson gets warm welcome back into UKIP fold
It was only back in 2018 that UKIP began tearing itself apart when leader Gerald Batten appointed Tommy ‘Ten Names’ Robinson as the party’s ‘grooming’ adviser. An association with the likes of Robinson was too much for many members. The link was short lived but the damage was done. Now it seems Robinson is once […]
Exclusive: How Margaret Thatcher approved right-wing smear sheet attacking Searchlight editor
Gerry Gable Margaret Thatcher Documents from Margaret Thatcher’s Downing Street office, declassified at New Year 2024, show that Thatcher and her closest advisers discussed and approved of a right-wing smear sheet that attacked Searchlight’s editor and publisher Gerry Gable. This smear sheet – British Briefing – was edited by a former MI5 officer whose wife […]
Book Review- The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World
Martyn Lester reviews James Ball’s account of the crazy world of QAnon and conspiracy theories The ‘wellness-to-fascism pipeline’. It was a phrase almost guaranteed to catch our attention, and when we spotted it in the headline of a Guardian feature (‘”Everything you’ve been told is a lie!” Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline’) back in August, it […]
Far right and nazis mobilise on Madrid streets
The Spanish election results have served to energise the more astute of nazi elements, who are busy bolstering links with like-minded Europeans. Roger Pearce reports This article was first published in the Winter 2023/24 of Searchlight magazine A narrow victory for Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his allies has brought a coalition of conservatives, […]
Bigots whipped up hatred to incite Dublin riots
Austin Harney explains how the right uses social media to spread poisonous lies about asylum-seekers and specifically how this tactic led to recent events in Dublin This article was first published in the Winter 2023/24 issue of Searchlight magazine The end of November saw the Irish far right organise a dangerous riot in Dublin after […]
Populist PVV take most seats in Dutch elections – Charles Fox analyses the results
Geert Wilders’ anti-immigration party gained the most seats in November’s elections, but forming a government in the Netherlands in never simple. Charles Fox sees parallels with past events This article originally appeared in the Winter 2023/24 issue of Searchlight magazine Even by the standards of the often higgledy-piggledy world of Dutch politics, the results of the […]
