On Thursday justice finally caught up with Ian Millard, a prolific and rancid antisemite. Millard was once a barrister but has been a persistent if fringe presence on the neo-nazi scene since the late 1970s. He once ran his own micro-party and was closely associated with Lucy Roberts (alias Ludmilla Baack), a leading officer in […]
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UKIP trounced in Llanelli local elections
Good to see that, despite their efforts at whipping up hatred in Llanelli, south Wales, UKIP failed miserably in the local elections , which, unusually, were held on a Wednesday. Their candidate, an anti-net zero former barrister, Hettie Sheehan, polled a mere 27 votes (4.3%) in the county election for Elli ward, and 43 votes […]
UKIP Chairman in desperate efforts to plug leaks
UKIP’s disgraced Chairman, Ben Walker, recently fired as a JP for misleading the authorities about his criminal record, may be wishing he was a plumber rather than just a ‘rogue builder’, such are the leaks springing from his floundering boat. The party’s UK Activists Forum WhatsApp group, supposedly the ‘top secret’ preserve of trusted leading […]
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’ adviser. An association with the likes of Robinson was too much for many members. The link was short lived but the damage was done. Now it seems Robinson is once […]
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 approved of a right-wing smear sheet that attacked Searchlight’s editor and publisher Gerry Gable. This smear sheet – British Briefing – was edited by a former MI5 officer whose wife […]
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 catch our attention, and when we spotted it in the headline of a Guardian feature (‘”Everything you’ve been told is a lie!” Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline’) back in August, it […]