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Behind the new iteration of an age-old plot – Martyn Lester examines GB news presenter, Neil Oliver

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Following an on-air diatribe delivered by GB News host Neil Oliver, Martyn Lester mulls over the possible source for the latest variant of the conspiracy theory that there is a sinister group bent on imposing a ‘one-world government’ First published in the Spring 2023 issue of Searchlight magazine Back in February, in what have been described as […]

Frene Ginwala, 1932–2023 Activist who helped expose genesis of plot to kidnap ANC leaders

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Obituary by Andy Bell – originally published in Spring 2023 Issue of Searchlight magazine Searchlight was saddened to hear, just as our last issue went to press, of the death of Frene Ginwala, the veteran ANC activist and first Speaker in the post-apartheid South African parliament [National Assembly] who has died aged 90 years. Searchlight […]

Nazi split update – The blame game begins

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During the first ten days following a disastrous drubbing for the entire far right at England’s local elections, each of the fractious PA factions has interpreted these results as a vindication. Alek Yerbury’s barmy army took the results as confirmation that traditional politics offer no hope for fascist politics. All the usual reasons apply. The […]

Britain’s biggest Nazi group fractures – The Patriotic Alternative split and where it leaves Britain’s far right

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By Gerry Gable As Searchlight has already reported, the UK’s largest nazi organisation has split down the middle. Of the 54 organisers in Patriotic Alternative (PA), 32 deserted its founder and leader Mark Collett in late April 2023 and defected to a new breakaway movement, the Homeland Party, led by PA’s national admin officer Kenny Smith. […]

Election disaster may mean nazi groups unite

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      Andrew Brons, British Democrats                Mark Collett, Patriotic Alternative The 2023 local elections were a disaster for the entire spectrum of Britain’s far right. The last remaining openly fascist councillor, Julian Leppert lost his seat, and votes for other high-profile extremist candidates were down on last […]

Remembering the victims of the nail bombings

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On the anniversary of Nazi David Copeland’s third and most deadly nailbomb attack on London in 1999, we remember his victims; those who died in the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho and the many more injured there, and in Brick Lane and Brixton. Searchlight worked with BBC Panorama to investigate not just Copeland’s bombing campaign, […]

Patriotic Alternative split latest: Et tu, Wesley?

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       Photo: Alec Cave alias Wesley Russell When Searchlight broke the news of a split in PA, some analysts saw it as “content creators” (staying with Collett and Towler) against “serious political activists” (defecting to Kenny Smith’s new Homeland Party). Smith himself contributed to this impression, criticising Collett’s over-emphasis on the minor celebrities […]

Searchlight analysis: Fascist and far right candidates in local elections, May 2023

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Photo: David Hyden, so-called Independent candidate for Cannock South, on the campaign trail with fellow ex Patriotic Alternative activist, Connor Marlow, one of the leaders of the Homeland Party split.   British fascists remain confused and divided in their approach to electoral politics, even allowing for the large proportion who have always preferred bombs to […]

PA rebels form Homeland Party

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  Beleagured PA leader Mark Collett The Patriotic Alternative split, revealed by Searchlight on Thursday, has hardened within the last 48 hours. Last weekend seven regional organisers wrote to PA’s egotistical leader Mark Collett and his deputy Laura Tyrie (alias Laura Towler), supporting criticisms by their national admin officer Kenny Smith. After failed attempts to mediate […]

Breaking news – Patriotic Alternative split

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  Photo: Kenny Smith with Scottish PA members As nazis worldwide prepared for their annual celebration of Adolf Hitler’s birthday, Searchlight is picking up reports of a bitter factional split in Britain’s leading nazi group, Patriotic Alternative. Searchlight has expected this split for months, between Mark Collett and his cult followers on one side, and […]

The Budaházy case, terrorism and the state

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Martin Smith uncovers the unholy alliances between far-right and neo-nazi parties, and why they are campaigning for the release of terror gang members responsible for violent attacks on government officials and LGBT+ groups in the latter 2000s Far-right unity: Campaigners to free Budaházy come from across the far-right spectrum. (The banner reads: ‘Freedom to Budaházy! […]

Endgame for Oath Keepers – by Leonard Zeskind

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In the first conviction of its kind against white supremacists, many of the group’s leaders were found guilty of seditious conspiracy. These verdicts will certainly lose the group its lawful kudos, suggests Leonard Zeskind     Proud Boy: EnriqueTarrio         Oath Keeper: Stewart Rhodes Photo: Anthony Crider More than two years after a Trump-inspired […]

Ministry of Justice in denial over violent racist prison gang

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Searchlight has learnt that a violent anti-Muslim gang, Death Before Dishonour, is operating in Britain’s secure prisons, but its activities are not being taken seriously. Andy Bell and Cathy Pound report The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is in denial over the activities of a violent anti-Muslim gang operating in some of Britain’s most secure prisons. […]

Home Affairs Report finds channel crossings not deterred by Patel’s harsh asylum plans

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Home Affairs Committee have published their report into Channel crossings, migration and asylum Read the report here: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/23102/documents/169178/default/… Read a summary here: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmhaff/199/summary.html… Read the conclusions and recommendations to the Government here: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmhaff/199/report.html#heading-8

Anne-Marie Waters announces that For Britain has folded

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Anne-Marie Waters announced on the For Britain website today that For Britain has ceased to be a political party with immediate effect. She states that people are afraid to be openly patriotic. Waters continues by saying that she will ‘revisit’ Sharia Watch in order to ‘educate our country about the incompatible cultures’ in the UK.