A Glasgow school has been hit with a wave of abuse after Tommy Robinson circulated false claims online about an attack involving pupils. It was followed by a barrage of threatening calls that left staff “terrified and traumatised”. The incident began when footage of a boy being assaulted was shared on social media, accompanied by […]
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Theatre review: Here There Are Blueberries, by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
This extraordinary production at Stratford East lands with the quiet, cumulative force of a dossier being opened in front of you. What emerges is not a conventional piece of Holocaust drama but an inquiry into how very ordinary people become functionaries of atrocity, and how institutions charged with memorialising victims must navigate the unsettling images […]
Ex‑BNP organiser causes far‑right chaos in Kent
A former British National Party organiser is at the centre of an increasingly chaotic far‑right muddle in Kent, lurching from one newly-launched party to another and back again, leaving a trail of confusion and recriminations in his wake. Graeme William Sergeant, a retired plumber and Millwall supporter from Herne Bay, is a onetime BNP activist […]
Another far-right extremist jailed for terrorist offences
A 23‑year‑old from Buckinghamshire has become the latest right-wing extremist to be jailed for terrorism offences, Nicholas Gilpin, from Farnham Common, was found guilty on charges including possessing terrorist information, encouraging terrorism, and stirring up racial hatred. He was sentenced to three years and four months at Woolwich Crown Court earlier this week. How to […]
Fascists attack Manchester Stop The War meeting
After Britain First’s distastrous day out in Manchester last weekend, local fascists have tried to up the ante with a cowardly attack on a Stop the War meeting in the city centre on Thursday evening. One of the speakers was MP Zarah Sultana, herself the target for constant threats and harassment. The meeting had been […]
Son’s jet set photos expose the Tommy Robinson poverty scam
Tommy Robinson’s insistence that he is a destitute family man living hand‑to‑mouth becomes rather harder to swallow when his son pops up bragging that he is living the lifestyle of a minor oligarch. Spencer Yaxley‑Lennon’s recent Instagram posts – featuring private jets, luxury interiors, designer wardrobes and the seedier sort of “entrepreneur” branding – has […]
Gorton & Denton: tactical voting stalls Reform’s momentum
The Gorton and Denton by‑election will be remembered less for the identity of the victor than for the method of victory. What unfolded in this corner of Greater Manchester was a decisive demonstration of something many on the progressive side have long wished for: anti‑Reform tactical voting, on a scale capable of stopping the far […]
When a European democracy faced a fascist coup
Yesterday we were all reminded – as if we needed reminding in the age of Trump, Farage and Lowe – that even in Western Europe democracy can’t be taken for granted. On the same day as the death of a man who opened fire in the Spanish parliament leading an attempted military coup, documents were […]
New Lowe for defecting teenage Reform councillor
Kieran Mishchuk, the 19‑year‑old Reform UK Swale councillor, has announced his defection to Rupert Lowe’s new outfit, Restore Britain, by way of a social‑media video apparently filmed in his nan’s back garden in Sittingbourne. Mishchuck has featured centrally in events around the disruption of two meetings of Swale Borough Council in recent months. In the […]
Banned US neo‑nazi joins Restore Britain
Restore Britain has admitted a high‑profile American white supremacist as a member, despite the fact he is banned from entering the UK for his extremist views. Jared Taylor, founder of the neo‑nazi‑aligned American Renaissance, announced on X that he had successfully joined the party. Banned from Britain He posted: “I just joined Restore Britain. Apparently […]
Advance candidate at ease in company of known fascists
Further evidence that Advance UK is relaxed about working with established extremists comes in the form of a lengthy online interview that Gorton & Denton candidate Nick Buckley has given to the far‑right National Housing Party. Despite its almost whimsical name, the organisation’s ideological lineage is unmistakably fascist. It emerged in the early 2020s under […]
The hardcore nazi campaigning for Advance UK
One of Britain’s most active nazis has been campaigning for Advance UK candidate Nick Buckley at this week’s Gorton & Denton by-election. Steve Smith, best known as organiser of Burnley BNP during the early 2000s, was photographed out on the campaign trail for the Advance candidate last weekend, and Buckley himself happily posted this photo […]
Neo-nazis take centre stage at Wrexham far-right rally
A small anti‑migrant demonstration in Wrexham last Sunday brought together activists from several well‑known far‑right groups. On the ground, the presence of the neo‑Nazi organisation Patriotic Alternative was impossible to miss as its members marched behind a large banner. Fraudster Among those carrying it was PA activist David Miles, who spent much of the afternoon […]
Talk TV presenter attacks ‘very left wing, relentless’ Searchlight
Searchlight has been blamed for many things over the years, but being the puppet‑master behind the downward career trajectory of a rockabilly pianist is a fresh accolade. Last week, Talk TV’s Alex Phillips devoted a surprisingly lengthy and operatic segment of her show to lamenting the supposed persecution of Dylan Kirk, who was dropped from […]
Nazi teenager jailed for terror offences
A 17‑year‑old boy has been found guilty of multiple terror offences after joining a banned neo‑nazi terrorist group, collecting extremist propaganda, and researching a local synagogue as a potential target. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was convicted at Leeds Crown Court of membership of National Action, the proscribed neo‑nazi group banned […]
Far-right merger collapses as Ben Habib slams ‘dictator’ Lowe
The uneasy courtship between Ben Habib’s Advance UK and Rupert Lowe’s newly-launched Restore Britain party has collapsed into open hostility, with Habib issuing an extraordinary nine‑minute denunciation of Lowe’s leadership, structure and political direction. The intervention confirms Searchlight’s earlier reporting on the factional tensions simmering beneath the right‑populist realignment, and suggest that the attempted consolidation […]
UKIP appeals for twelve well-heeled disciples
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 […]
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 […]