Those self-styled ‘nazi intellectuals’ at Heritage and Destiny magazine are very unhappy that we have paid tribute to Peter Marriner, the Searchlight mole in the far right for many, many years, who has just died. “Death of a traitor” trumpets their article, where they denounce as ‘treachery’ Peter’s success in stopping terrorist attacks. They write: […]
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Farage, Reform UK, and the Shadow of the Kremlin
As Reform UK rides a surprising wave of electoral support across parts of England, the party’s populist rhetoric and its leader’s controversial foreign policy stances deserve renewed scrutiny. Nigel Farage, the face of Reform and the prime political figure synonymous with Brexit, has long portrayed himself as a crusader against establishment politics. But his pronouncements […]
Peter Marriner: undercover hero of the anti-fascist movement
Peter Marriner, who has died at the age of 77, was an undercover informant in the extreme right for many years, and one of those extraordinary people, true heroes of the anti-fascist movement, to whom we owe an enormous debt of gratitude for their courage and self-sacrifice. But the story of his initial introduction into […]
A Searchlight mole and a nazi weapons hoard
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 […]
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 […]