The National Rebirth Party had been promising their first national meeting of 2026 for weeks. Venue: somewhere in the West Midlands. Date: yesterday. Further details: none. Apparently the element of surprise was central to the strategy. It was not, as it turned out, quite central enough. By the time NRP members had finished hanging their […]
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From BNP to Brexit: the far right’s ongoing identity crisis
As we approach Brexit’s tenth anniversary, the British far right is still trying to work out how to escape from two long shadows, Nigel Farage and Nick Griffin. Is the future course of British racism to be Farage’s populist imitation of Enoch Powell, or a Griffin-style tribute act based on mid-century fascist dictatorships? We can […]
The blood and folly of Alek Yerbury
In a bland hotel room in Birmingham, brightened only by the flags of his National Rebirth Party, leader Alek Yerbury last week addressed a gathering of no more than twenty midlands followers at an NRP multi-branch meeting. The setting is telling: not a vibrant public square, but a sterile, functional space tolerant of political extremists. […]
National Rebirth Party rolls out latest retro-nazi fashion statement…
Shoppers in Havant were treated to an unexpected catwalk show last week, as the National Rebirth Party rolled out yet another impeccably ill-advised fashion statement. Because apparently, the far-right’s real rebirth is happening in the menswear department. Aesthetic drift After the ridicule, from both left and right, that greeted party leader Alek Yerbury’s aesthetic drift […]
Size isn’t everything as fuhrer Yerbury’s micro-party meets in Leeds
The men of the National Rebirth Party will know that size isn’t everything. And that’s good because today’s so-called National Conference, attended by around 30 desperate and misled souls, was a springboard into an empty swimming pool. We sat and watched them entering the Headley Verity Wetherspoons just outside Leeds City Centre. It’s not difficult […]
Gloves off, balaclavas on in nazi ‘informants’ feud
Well, you can’t deny that when nazis fall out, it really can be quite entertaining. The latest online spat is between National Rebirth Party boss Alek Yerbury – he of the Hitler moustache and 1930s apparel – and White Vanguard, a micro-group of deranged kinder-nazis, who made quite a scene at a recent Britain First […]