It was a wet weekend for the Southport riot-inciter Danny Tommo, one of Tommy Robinson’s closest mates. After doing his level best to wind things up in Southampton he ended on Sunday distinctly the worse for wear – soaked in urine and pepper sprayed by the police. Riot inciter Tommo – a convicted kidnapper – […]
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Unholy alliance as Reform UK in Exeter cosy up to Britain First
Reform UK’s Exeter branch is under growing pressure to explain itself as some its most prominent local figures are associating – both online and on the ground – with the openly fascist Britain First. Last Saturday Exeter witnessed the first far-right mobilisation in the city since the English Defence League’s appearance in 2013. Though the […]
The Russian spy network that targeted Brexit Party MEPs
When Anton Shekhovtsov, a Ukrainian researcher of Europe’s far right and a former Searchlight contributor, published his forensic 2021 study “The Niedźwiecki case: The Rise and Fall of a Polish Agent of the Kremlin Influence”, it appeared at first glance to be a niche story about a Polish activist accused of espionage. But also featuring […]
The ego and the echo chamber: ‘Taco’ Tenconi’s London flop
They came promising a show of strength. What unfolded instead was a pitiful spectacle. In Central London this afternoon, Nick ‘Taco’ Tenconi’s so-called “remigration” march proved not just a failure, but a farce – underwhelming even its own participants and costing the taxpayer dearly in policing. Having been banned by the Met Police from marching […]
The lies and lies of the ‘Pink Lady’ child abuser
Gemma Mattinson, the vile ‘save our kids’ Pink Lady with convictions for child cruelty, is a liar. She’s posted a sickening, exculpatory defence of the crimes that got her jailed, minimising the seriousness of the cruelty inflicted on the children she had in her care. This is what she says: So, just to be clear, […]
BNP rump faces allegations of corruption and fraud
The British National Party (BNP), for years the pre-eminent force in British far-right politics but now an irrelevant rump, is at the centre of an entertaining row as a group of former members and activists claim they are mounting a campaign to wrest control from current leader Adam Walker. The campaign, described by its organiser […]
Police authorise destruction of Britain First battle bus
As we predicted , Britain First leader Paul Golding has found it very difficult – in fact impossible – to get new insurance for his ‘laughably named ‘battle bus’ which languishes in a police pound in Manchester. As a result, we are moving close to the time when the police will simply crush or auction […]
Obituary: Antonio Tejero (1932-2025), Civil Guard officer who led failed fascist coup in Spain
European fascists are mourning the death of the last man to attempt an old-school fascist coup, Lt Col Antonio Tejero of the Spanish Civil Guard, who died this morning aged 93. Veteran Searchlight readers will remember him as, resembling Peter Sellers, he stormed into Madrid’s parliament on 23 February 1981 with heavily armed fellow Guard […]
Smirking Robinson wrecks chances of Israeli football fans watching Aston Villa game
When the Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv visit Villa Park on 6 November for a Europa League fixture, there will be no away fans in the stands – not because of football rivalry, but because of fears that extremists could hijack the event. And at the centre of the controversy sits Tommy Robinson, whose […]
Huge opposition leads to police ban on UKIP march
Try as he might to feign anger as he announces that his planned march in Whitechapel this coming weekend has been banned, you can almost sense the relief in Nick Tenconi’s voice that he doesn’t have to go through with it after all. And that in Sir Mark Rowley and “two-tier policing” he has someone […]
Austrian army colonel held as police raid far-right ‘weapons exercise’
Well-connected European nazis and extreme conspiracy theorists are under investigation after heavily-armed police raided a weapons training camp in Austria ten days ago. Attention has focussed particularly on the involvement of a senior officer in the Austrian army. On Saturday 11 October, 19 men and women gathered at a rural property in Vorchdorf, district of […]
International far-right, pro-Putin axis launched in Russia
Last month, St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Palace — the city’s Legislative Assembly building — quietly hosted a meeting which led to the formation of a new international alliance of the extreme right across Europe. Within its historic chambers, an international congress brought together far-right, neo-Nazi and ultra-nationalist movements under the banner of the newly declared ‘International […]
The elite funders behind Italy’s far-right CasaPound movement
A covert network of high-profile financiers – including diplomats, academics, lawyers, military officials, and media figures – has been secretly funding Italy’s neo-fascist CasaPound movement, according to newly uncovered internal documents. The group, calling themselves the “Gli Unici” (The Unique Ones), was established in 2017, a year ahead of Italy’s 2018 general elections, with the […]
Remembering the massacre at Kerdyllia
As dawn broke on 17 October 1941 in the villages of Ano Kerdyllia and Kato Kerdyllia in the Serres region of northern Greece, the tranquillity of mountain-life was shattered. German troops, who had been hunting partisans in the area, rounded up some 230 men – estimates vary – forced them to dig mass graves, shot […]
Terror case throws spotlight on neo-nazi British Movement
The conviction of Brogan Stewart, a Wakefield-based neo-nazi sentenced today to 11 years for plotting terrorist attacks on mosques and synagogues, throws a spotlight on the activities of British Movement, one of the UK’s most longstanding and notorious neo-nazi outfits. American terrorist Stewart, 25, was the self-styled “Fuhrer” of Einsatz 14 (Mission 14) an online […]
The anti-migrant ‘Pink Lady’ you could never trust with your kids…
The rise of anti-migrant protests across Britain has been frequently portrayed by organisers as the spontaneous expression of local concern, ordinary citizens worried about housing, community cohesion, and public services – and the safety of their kids. But evidence continues to mount suggesting that many of these supposedly grassroots demonstrations are, in fact, fuelled by […]
Traditional Britain Group conference – posh venue doesn’t relieve the tedium
Well, if the UKIP conference in Gloucester at the weekend was the low point of the fascist conference season, the annual get together of the Traditional Britain Group in central London on Saturday wasn’t very far behind. It was held at the Paddington Hilton, a fact that Searchlight was able to publicise the night before […]
Police threaten to crush Britain First ‘battle bus’
Police in Manchester are threatening to crush the Britain First ‘battle bus’ unless leader Paul Golding can come up with new insurance within the next few days – and that may not be as easy as it sounds. But first, let’s recap: three weeks ago, Paul Golding and his co-leader Ashlea Simon drove their ill-named […]
UKIP’s annual conference attracts record breaking numbers – EIGHT!
Before last weekend’s UKIP conference began, Chairman Ben ‘Rogue Builder’ Walker issued strict instructions, especially to the chap filming proceedings: only the speeches were to be shown. Absolutely no audience shots. And now we know why. For just a brief moment, the official camera forgot Walker’s injunction and panned round to welcome recent Reform defector […]
‘Tommy Robinson’ takes a ride on far-right billionaire’s train set
Tommy Robinson is obviously making the most of his time before his next court appearance on Monday when he will face an outstanding Terrorism Act offence and may face yet more jail time. First, there was another of those mysterious flying visits he makes to Portugal on his own. This time a couple of days […]