Earlier this week, the media reported that the Charity Commission had shut down an ostensibly Roman Catholic-supporting charity, sacked its trustees and confiscated £30,000 in gold bullion. The charity was accused of cheating HMRC out of tens of thousands of pounds and being linked to far-right politics. That much was widely reported. But not much […]
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Review: Celebrating Billie Holiday, jazz great and civil rights activist
A great night at the Jazz Café, Camden, on 7 April when we were transported back to the Jim Crow era and Billie Holiday’s concerts at Carnegie Hall in 1956, with Riketté Genesis really embodying Holiday and Alex Webb on piano with a fantastic band supporting. Holiday was born on 7 April 1915. Webb read […]
Britain First leader staring Brum failure in the face
As Britain First’s 17 May Birmingham demo approaches, co-leader Paul Golding is getting increasingly desperate. His bizarre antics over recent weeks suggest he may be heading for a political and nervous breakdown. He now claims that his last big event, ‘the rally to end all rallies’ in March in Nuneaton, which occupied the corner of […]
Remembering Dietrich Bonhoeffer – murdered by Hitler’s nazis
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the murder of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the final days of the Second World war. The sounds of the bombardment of the advancing Soviet army showed defeat was near for the Nazis, but their priority was to kill internal enemies threatening them. The killing of Bonhoeffer, a German theologian and […]
Yorkshire fascist wins council seats – but without an election
A huge victory! A stunning success! Total vindication of our strategy! Yes! Set up by ageing nazis whose political careers have been characterised by hideous extremism, bigotry, Holocaust denial, conspiracy-mongering and a good deal more, the BNP Retirement Division, otherwise known as the British Democrats, where older bigots go to die, has actually won something. […]
Local elections 2025: far-right runners and riders
Britain’s fastest growing far-right party Homeland, led by an ex-BNP organiser with a swastika tattoo on his chest but now advertising itself as the voice of “sensible nationalism” will have just four candidates nationwide at the local elections on 1 May. Party leader Kenny Smith has spent recent weeks in a series of online rows […]
Britain First leader Paul Golding in ‘You’re nazis’ attack on Homeland Party
Hostilities between groups on Britain’s extreme right have taken a bizarre turn with Paul Golding, leader of Britain First, launching into a furious attack on Homeland Party boss Kenny Smith, accusing him of being a nazi with a swastika tattoo on his chest and challenging him to show his chest and prove it’s not true. […]
Far-right crook Marine Le Pen banned from running for French presidency in 2027
The leader of the French far-right party National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen, has been sentenced to four years in prison (two of them suspended, two under house arrest) and a €100,000 fine, and barred from standing for political office for five years after having been found guilty of being part of a conspiracy to […]
Fascist candidate announced for Doncaster mayor
The fascist British Democrats have announced they will be contesting Doncaster’s mayoral election in May. Their candidate will be Frank Calladine, who was their Doncaster North candidate in the last general election, and works in the gun trade. The British Democrats, of course, boast a President, Andrew Brons, who belonged to the National Socialist Movement […]
Birmingham rally makes clear the challenge of Nigel Farage and Reform
Nigel Farage arrived on the stage of the Reform UK rally in the Arena Birmingham on a JCB accompanied by a live band, dry ice and to a rapturous standing ovation. A jubilant Farage claimed that 10,000 people were in attendance (Friday 28 March 2025). Sitting in the auditorium that night his claim was not […]
An anniversary David Irving would rather forget
Last Monday was David Irving’s birthday. He celebrated it from his sickbed to which he has been confined for over year, in failing health. But this year marks another anniversary which, though he will not, we celebrate happily. It is 25 years since Professor Deborah Lipstadt’s victory over Irving in a historic libel action. He […]
UKIP leader in panic mode as branches collapse and demos flop
UKIP Leader Nick Tenconi is becoming increasingly deranged. The man with the megaphone, making a nuisance of himself in town centres around Britain every weekend, is clearly rattled. Under his new, dynamic leadership, UKIP is falling flat on its face and needs picking up before his political suitor ‘Tommy Robinson’ gets out of jail and […]
PA leader Collett in desperate ‘state asset’ attack on Homeland Party boss
Patriotic Alternative, the neo-fascist political entity that has housed and harboured many a convicted criminal, is in trouble and leader Mark Collett has launched a desperate smear attack on one of his leading rivals accusing him of being a state asset. PA’s founding core group included many closely associated with the prescribed terrorist group National […]
George Galloway fields friend of Holocaust deniers in Runcorn by-election
We still don’t know how many (if any) far right candidates will compete with Reform UK at the Runcorn & Helsby by-election, expected to be held within the next few months. Even if Nigel Farage’s rival Rupert Lowe, who presently sits as an independent, decides to form a new and more virulently anti-immigration party, it […]
Right-wing anger as ‘Tommy Robinson’ short changes family of riot ‘martyr’
Or, how a ‘Tommy Robinson’ whip-round divvy-up has fired up a right wing Lynch mob. Can you remember when, before his latest stint in the slammer, ‘Tommy Robinson’ could be seen posing in an ‘I am Peter Lynch’ T-shirt? We all took it at the time as being an example of statements of identification with […]
Patriotic Alternative register political party – under another name
Patriotic Alternative, one of Britain’s most overt nazi organisations, has secretly registered as a political party with the Electoral Commission under another name. EC records show that in November, the Identity Party, with an address in Poole, Dorset, was registered with the Commission. However, the Leader of the party, and its Nominating Officer, is recorded […]
UKIP leader Tenconi to Rupert Lowe MP: Come into my hate-filled parlour
Sitting in a pub with a beer in front of him, UKIP Leader Nick ‘The Kick’ Tenconi makes an offer to Reform UK’s dissident and suspended MP, Rupert Lowe. ‘When you’re ready to get serious and jump on the team for the big win, my line and my door is open, for talks. Call me.’ […]
The end of an era for the anti-fascist movement – Searchlight founder Gerry Gable retires
With the publication of the final print edition of Searchlight, the magazine’s founder and often-times editor, Gerry Gable, has announced that he is stepping back from running the magazine. The final issue, a huge 72-page look back over the magazine’s history and achievements, comes shortly after Gerry’s 88th birthday, and in it he writes that: […]
Fascists and antisemites mourn death of rogue bishop
Last week’s funeral of the far-right, schismatic Bishop Richard Williamson brought into sharp focus the longstanding connections between some ultra-conservative Catholics and a world of antisemitic bigotry, Holocaust denial and fascist politics. Williamson died last month aged 84, a few days after suffering a brain haemorrhage. He had been excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church […]
‘Batshit preacher’ accused of ‘intentionally antisemitic rhetoric’ by his former church
The Anglican Catholic Church in Michigan, which withdrew Calvin Robinson’s licence to minster in January, has accused the far-right clergyman of using “rhetoric that was clearly and intentionally anti-Semitic”. The ACC had been Robinson’s church since last September when he decamped from the UK to take charge of an ACC parish in Grand Rapids, West […]