When a 22-year-old presents himself as a seasoned business consultant with international defence sector links, eyebrows are bound to rise. That is precisely the case with Joseph Moulton, the frontman of the UK’s flag-waving initiative known as Flag Force UK. While the campaign has been marketed as a grass roots patriotic movement, investigations suggest that […]
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Britain’s racist upsurge – the view from the mosque
An elderly man sits beside me in the mosque. It’s Friday, our special prayer day, and although there’s another 20 minutes before the khutbah, this week’s sermon delivered in Arabic and English by our Imam, the place is filling up. Elderly gentleman, many of whom been in the UK for 60 years, line up having […]
Historic fascist turnout heralds dangerous times
There is just one major takeaway from yesterday’s Tommy Robinson-organised ‘Free Speech’ festival in London – 110,000 supporters of a far-right, racist agitator marched through London in the biggest public demonstration of fascism ever seen in this country. Just think how often we refer back proudly to over 100,000 people coming out to support the […]
Correction
On Saturday we published an article which said that Tommy Robinson’s close collaborator, Danny Tommo, was seen inciting violence earlier in the day at Robinson’s London demonstration. This was based on a contemporaneous account. However, having reviewed video evidence published online since we have concluded that this claim is not supported by the evidence now […]
UKIP rolls out red carpet for Reform defector – and psychic readings for £14.99
Cue the celebrations at UKIP HQ – they have a local councillor. The first for some time. Well, kind of. They haven’t actually won an election. Nor have they managed to slip a candidate into a uncontested election so they can take a council seat without the inconvenience of having to persuade a majority of […]
Thugs and nazi ‘intellectuals’ get together in Preston
On Sunday afternoon Preston in the north of England, witnessed the latest get together organised by the self-styled ‘intellectual’ journal of the UK’s nazi movement, Heritage and Destiny. And once again they had to lie to get somewhere to meet. In 2022, Preston-based H&D editor Mark Cotterill, who was excluded from the USA in 2002 […]