Last weekend in the unlikely setting of a Derbyshire parish hall, the Homeland Party made its big pitch to be the future of the British far right. This is a party that by its own records had only 251 members before this conference, but it’s already overtaking its rivals Patriotic Alternative (from which Homeland split […]
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Nothing funny about this Tony Hancock
A nostalgic post on Facebook yesterday, from Mark Cottrell (above, right), editor-in-chief of the self-styled nazi ‘intellectual’ rag, Heritage and Destiny: “I was in Uckfield in East Sussex yesterday” he writes, “so it would have been rude not to pop by and have a look at the old Tony Hancock Print Shop, which was used […]
Fascists offer Homeland to ‘respectable’ far right activists
Britain’s far right is approaching conference season. So we can expect toxic politics of hate to be spewed in all directions, including vicious hatred among former comrades in the now chronically divided Patriotic Alternative. A realignment is under way, with previously “respectable” activists in UKIP and other milder versions of the far right now prepared […]
The two-tier policing that is letting the riot ‘influencers’ get away with it…
Well, there you go then! That seems to be the conclusion of at least some on the far right regarding arrests and charges arising from the Notting Hill Carnival. Which ‘there’ this data is meant to lead us to is far from clear. There you go then… assemble a huge, predominantly black crowd and there […]
2024 European elections – a paradigm shift for the far right
This article originally appeared here on 14 June. It has been updated to include the far right realignments in the European Parliament following the elections. It also appears in the Summer 2024 issue of Searchlight, Shock gains for far-right parties right across Europe saw France face a snap election and Belgium’s PM resign. Although the […]
Settle back and enjoy the sideshow
This article first appeared in the Summer 2024 issue of Searchlight The 2024 UK election saw far-right candidates bomb spectacularly but, warns PAUL GALE, even as we delight at the squabbling and scrapping among the factions, we must not get too comfortable and must stay alert to the gains made by Reform UK The British […]