By Martyn Lester At the end of 2023, when unruly factions of Conservative MPs were demanding that the UK left the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to make it easier to dump asylum-seekers in Rwanda, most normal people will have been mystified to hear the agitators described in the media as “The Five Families”. […]
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British far right faces up to election catastrophe
In 2023 rival factions lined up to become the new BNP and the new UKIP, each of those parties being obviously on the way to the knackers’ yard, and only remaining registered in the hope of inheritances from some aged nazi or senile Powellite. At the 2024 local elections the competition is different. Who can […]
Laurence Fox is unwell
Poor Laurence Fox, whom some regard as the Basil Brush of right-wing British politics – fond of posing in front of TV cameras and laughing incessantly at his own 70s-style humour – has clearly been traumatised by his humiliation in the London elections, where he was massively overshadowed by, among others, the Animal Welfare Party. […]
Is Russia using the extreme right to carry out operations in Europe? By Roger Pearce
As Searchlight has previously reported, the British far-right is bitterly divided over whether to support Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. For the past two years this has caused splits among nazis and other extremist groups around the world. Recent events in the UK – including arrests for terror offences allegedly carried out on behalf of […]
Former Channel 4 news chief asks: ‘Why is Ofcom letting GB News off the hook?’
As former Head of News at Channel Four, Dorothy Byrne has enormous experience in broadcasting – and she is worried. She thinks Ofcom’s repeated refusal to punish GB News for serious breaches of impartiality poses a threat to UK democracy. Here, writing exclusively for Searchlight, she sets out her fears: The UK Government is much […]
Nick Griffin in last ditch attempt to resurrect his political career.
Nick Griffin is attempting one last return to the leadership of British fascism. As Searchlight has expected, he is formalising links with the Independent Nationalist Network, a faction mainly based in the Midlands. The INN was formed as a split from Mark Collett’s Patriotic Alternative, and it includes some of the many PA members who […]