One of America’s most notorious racists, Jared Taylor, is being allowed to travel freely around Europe and the UK, even though he was banned from the entire Schengen area a few years ago. Taylor turns up on both the relatively mainstream wing of the racist movement (with ties to far-right conservative parties and the fringe […]
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Home Office turns blind eye to hardline foreign racists at nazi conference
The Home Office and UK Border Security have again turned a blind eye to militant racists entering the UK to speak at a fascist conference. Last Saturday, as Searchlight revealed a few days before the event, Jared Taylor spoke at Mark Collett’s Patriotic Alternative conference. It turned out he wasn’t to be the only one. […]
Two leading fascist activists arrested
Two leading far-right agitators have been arrested by police. The Dover-based online activist Steve Laws has been arrested by police in Kent, whilst fascist ‘intellectual’ Pete North has been arrested in North Yorkshire, Both were, till earlier this year, prominent in the Homeland Party. Social media silence Searchlight understands that Laws was arrested yesterday morning, […]
Epping activist arrest sparks new Homeland spat
Former Homeland Party activist Callum Barker, one of the leading figures in the far-right protests at the Bell Hotel in Epping, was arrested in Epping at the weekend. He was later bailed without charge. For the usual legal reasons we cannot comment on the circumstances or potential charges, but we can report that his arrest […]
Homeland Party chief warned ‘shut your mouth or we finish your political career’
Homeland Party duce Kenny Smith declared war on his enemies at a recent ‘Remigration conference’ and his enemies have now hit back – with threats that there would be consequences if he didn’t ‘shut his mouth.’ Smith was a guest speaker at a far-right conference in Norway two weeks ago. But he spent the first […]
Homeland Party in crisis as hardliners demand leader Kenny Smith quits
Last weekend the Homeland Party’s obese duce Kenny Smith was posing in Vienna (above) as leader of “sensible nationalism”. His overseas liaison officer Martin Kuziel spoke at one of Europe’s best publicised racist rallies, sharing a platform in the Austrian capital with the “identitarian” leader Martin Sellner. But within days another wheel fell off the […]
‘Open letter’ sparks open revolt in Homeland
The Homeland Party is facing an imminent and damaging split, as dissidents supporting Steve Laws have submitted an open letter to the party’s ruling council calling on Kenny Smith to resign. Supporters of party chief Smith are known to be in panic mode and trying to calm down what is growing dissent with Smith’s strategy […]
Homeland Party – are the wheels coming off?
It’s becoming a summer of discontent for all three contenders for the führership of British nazism. Alek Yerbury is well ahead of all competitors in the Hitler-lookalike contest, but as we recently reported, his admission that Searchlight is 99% correct about corruption on the far right hasn’t made him many friends. Long before Yerbury changed […]
Local elections 2025 – Farage surges and far right turn on Homeland
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has won control of at least seven councils in this week’s local elections. A party that often relies on dog-whistle racism and xenophobia will now try to control large swathes of England. These results make grim reading for anti-fascists and are an indictment of both Tory opportunism and Labour cowardice. Indulging […]
Homeland Party – the anatomy of a split
The great Homeland Party split (reported by Searchlight as it unfolded during the Easter weekend) has hardened within the past 24 hours. 2025 is starting to look very much like 1980. After the 1979 general election setback, the National Front split in several directions, then split again in 1983-4, and again in 1986-7. Four way […]
Crisis in Homeland Party as leading figure quits
Steve Laws, one of the leading and most high-profile members of the Homeland Party, has resigned from the party in protest following the appointment of a controversial figure as the party’s Northern Ireland Organiser. But he has launched a much wider attack on the leadership which reflects a deeper split in the party. Laws was […]
Local elections 2025: far-right runners and riders
Britain’s fastest growing far-right party Homeland, led by an ex-BNP organiser with a swastika tattoo on his chest but now advertising itself as the voice of “sensible nationalism” will have just four candidates nationwide at the local elections on 1 May. Party leader Kenny Smith has spent recent weeks in a series of online rows […]