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.’ […]
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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 […]
Searchlight – the great achievement of post-war anti-fascists
When I sat down with a couple of former 62 group leaders in 1975 to discuss possibly relaunching Searchlight, the anti-fascist newspaper we had published in the mid-60s, I had no idea that it would set a course for me for the rest of my life. The newspaper, which appeared only four times, was the […]
British Democrats host ‘well-oiled’ Webster
It would be remiss of us not to report the latest outing for one of the oldest Jew-haters in town, Martin Webster, who turned up as guest speaker at a British Democrats meeting in Kent last weekend. Webster, who will be 82 in a few weeks’ time, began his hatemongering odyssey in A.K. Chesterton’s League […]