On this day in 1993, Chris Hani, General Secretary of the South African Communist Party and the most popular ANC figure after Nelson Mandela himself, was shot dead outside his home in Dawn Park, Boksburg. His daughter Nomakhwezi, then fifteen years old, was with him at the time. The plot had British connections that are […]
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Veteran nazi thug convicted for role in Epping riots
When Phil Curson turned up outside the Bell Hotel in Epping last July, he did not come as an outraged but peaceful local as he claimed. He came as what he has always been: a Combat 18-connected street nazi with more than two decades of racially-motivated violence behind him, looking for a fight. He found […]
Crypto billionaire quits Hong Kong to bankroll Reform UK
A billionaire cryptocurrency entrepreneur is relocating from Hong Kong to Britain with the explicit aim of funnelling millions of pounds into Reform UK . Ben Delo, co-founder of the BitMEX trading platform, donated £4 million to Reform earlier this year before the Government introduced a £100,000 cap on political donations from British citizens living overseas. […]
Nazi teenager tried to buy gun for terror attack
A neo-Nazi teenager, on trial at the Old Bailey, was caught after he attempted to acquire a firearm for a terrorist attack. Alfie Coleman was 19 years old when armed police arrested him outside a Morrisons supermarket in Stratford, east London, in September 2023. Three officers trained stun guns on Coleman as he crossed the […]
When US Black nationalists joined hands with British nazis
The controversy over Kanye West’s cancelled appearance at Wireless Festival calls to mind the cases of other Black American extremists whose involvement in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s aroused anger. These were political activists happy to forge alliances with organised British fascism. Two figures stand out: Louis Farrakhan and Osiris Akkebala. Neither will […]
The fraudster who is Farage’s right-hand man
George Cottrell is unusual, to say the least, in British political life: a man with a serious American felony conviction who has nevertheless embedded himself as a trusted figure within Nigel Farage’s inner circle, helping fund his foreign travel and advising Reform UK with apparent impunity. Born into considerable privilege, Cottrell’s background reads like a […]