A white supremacist who has joined Restore Britain and been pictured alongside the party founder Rupert Lowe today sent birthday greetings to Adolf Hitler on his Telegram channel. Chris Mitchell, the former East of England organiser for the neo-Nazi group Patriotic Alternative (PA) and a self-described “Nazi-Buddhist”, posted his message on 20 April, the anniversary […]
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Sharon Osbourne under fire for backing far‑right
Sharon Osbourne – widow of the Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne – has caused much consternation by announcing that she will be attending the far-right Unite the Kingdom march in London on 16 May, led by Tommy Robinson. On 14 April, in a comment posted on a spittle-flecked rallying cry for the march from Robinson, […]
London synagogues targeted in antisemitic arson attacks
Three Jewish sites in London have been attacked in less than a week in what counter-terrorism police are now investigating as a concerted, antisemitic campaign against the British Jewish community. Finchley Reform Synagogue was hit first, on Wednesday, a petrol bomb thrown into the building. On Friday night, a former premises of the Jewish Futures […]
All at sea: Danny Tommo’s Dover flop
Saturday’s far‑right mobilisation in Dover called by Danny Tommo fell completely flat, as might have been predicted. Tommo himself was absent, barred from the town after his recent arrest there, but his supporters had been urged to assemble for an “emergency protest” to “stop the boats”. In the end, barely twenty people turned up. Theatrical […]
The resistance heroes who stopped a train to Auschwitz
On this day in 1943, for the only time anywhere in Europe during the Holocaust, members of the Belgian resistance attacked a train carrying Jews to the death camp at Auschwitz and freed many of those being shipped to the gas chanmbers. That night, the eve of Passover, and the same night the Warsaw Ghetto […]
Britain First speechless as police seize sound system and anti-fascists seize the Square
Today was a very bad day for Britain First in Manchester – and an expensive blow to Paul Golding’s personal and political retirement fund. Anti-fascists began gathering beneath the Duke of Wellington statue near Piccadilly Gardens from 11am. Police had expected up to 1,000 fascists and deployed in massive numbers from 9am, possibly up to […]