When this article was first published in 2024, we were not able to identify Peter Marriner as the Searchlight informant who smashed this nazi plot to assemble a huge weapons cache. In the final print edition of Searchlight, published this year, Peter was happy to be identified in the Searchlight Undercover Hall of Fame. So […]
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So why was Charlie Veitch trying to photograph everyone on May Day march?
Last week, YouTube ‘film maker’ and blogger Charlie Veitch was seen in Manchester joking and cosying up to some the most vile fascists in the UK. This weekend he was out in Manchester again, but this time he was spotted at a May Day worker’s rally in the centre of the city, where hundreds of […]
Local elections 2025 – Farage surges and far right turn on Homeland
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has won control of at least seven councils in this week’s local elections. A party that often relies on dog-whistle racism and xenophobia will now try to control large swathes of England. These results make grim reading for anti-fascists and are an indictment of both Tory opportunism and Labour cowardice. Indulging […]
Remembering the Admiral Duncan attack
Today, on the anniversary of nazi David Copeland’s third and most deadly nail bomb attack on London in 1999, we remember his victims; those who died in the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho and the many more injured there, and in Brick Lane and Brixton. 25 years ago, Searchlight worked with BBC Panorama to investigate […]
Behind the Leeds crossbow attack: Lone-actor extremism and online radicalization
The recent crossbow attack in Leeds has attracted national attention not only because of its shocking nature but also because of the ideological motivations behind it. Owen Lawrence, the alleged perpetrator, was not on the radar of security services, yet he had a disturbing history of online extremism, misogyny, and violent intent. This case illustrates […]
Homeland – where ‘sensible nationalism’ meets sniggery antisemitism
Last weekend’s Homeland Party Remigration Conference was predictable in many ways. The party of ‘sensible nationalism’ ordered its (male) troops to turn up in suits and ties and a good behaviour injunction was observed even when a small group of anti-fascists turned up outside the venue in Bourne, Lincolnshire. Well, most of the time, that […]