Every April, on this day, England celebrates its patron saint: a dragon-slaying hero on a white horse, his red cross flying from flagpoles across the nation. For many, Saint George is the ultimate symbol of Englishness. There’s just one problem: almost everything about him is foreign. Far from being an English knight, George was a […]
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‘Destiny’ at 50 – a play that is ‘actually necessary’
This year sees the 50th anniversary of David Edgar’s anti-fascist play Destiny, premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford in 1976. The play then transferred to the Aldwych Theatre in London’s west end and was then broadcast as a BBC Play for Today. Performed at the height of the National Front’s 1970s success, Destiny […]
No rest for the wicked: ‘Fash Harry’ back from hols and causing trouble again
Kent-based racist agitator Harry Hilden spent last weekend on a tour of northern England, demonstrating in Manchester and mouthing off in Leeds, with his associate Dean Phillpott in tow. That he had only recently returned from a holiday in Spain was apparent from his complexion. That it had done him no good whatsoever was apparent […]
Danny Tommo’s racist mob runs riot in Epsom
Far-right agitators and local racists, their rage stoked by Danny Tommo, have returned to the streets of the Surrey commuter town of Epsom, attacking police and properties on the basis of lies and disinformation about an alleged rape. Mobs have now attacked a local hotel and a house where migrants were thought to be living. […]
The rise, the fall, and the rise again of Alan Amos
There are few political careers that have enjoyed such spectacular rises and falls as that of Alan Amos, who is now set to become Reform’s second leader of Worcestershire County Council in less than twelve months. Back in 1992 when Alan was a mere stripling of a Tory MP, it seemed that the story of […]
Banning Valentina Gomez is not only justified, it is well overdue
The Home Secretary’s decision to revoke Valentina Gomez’s visa and bar her from entering the United Kingdom is correct. She is a foul racist and her presence in the UK is plainly not conducive to the public good. But the more important question is why it took so long and why she was allowed into […]