Tommy Robinson gets warm welcome back into UKIP fold
It was only back in 2018 that UKIP began tearing itself apart when leader Gerald Batten appointed Tommy ‘Ten Names’ Robinson as the party’s ‘grooming’…
Exclusive: How Margaret Thatcher approved right-wing smear sheet attacking Searchlight editor
Gerry Gable Margaret Thatcher Documents from Margaret Thatcher’s Downing Street office, declassified at New Year 2024, show that Thatcher and her closest advisers discussed and…
Book Review- The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World
Martyn Lester reviews James Ball’s account of the crazy world of QAnon and conspiracy theories The ‘wellness-to-fascism pipeline’. It was a phrase almost guaranteed to…
BOOK REVIEW: Short history of Fascism in Liverpool 1923-1940: by Chris Jones
Steve Silver reviews The Flash in the Pan (originally published in the Winter 2023/24 issue of Searchlight magazine) Merseyside historian Chris Jones has done the…
Populist PVV take most seats in Dutch elections – Charles Fox analyses the results
Geert Wilders’ anti-immigration party gained the most seats in November’s elections, but forming a government in the Netherlands in never simple. Charles Fox sees parallels with…