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‘Batshit’ preacher sacked by his own church for nazi salute
Well, Calvin Robinson, the batshit and increasingly self-important preacher, thought he was being so funny, and so clever, when he topped off a speech to the far-right Pro-Life Summit in Washington DC by mimicking Elon Musk’s nazi salute. He left…
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The case of UKIP’s vanishing candidates
The last NEC meeting of the increasingly Tommy Robinson-adjacent UKIP was entertaining for a number of reasons, not least of…
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Homeland announce ‘literary giant’ as star turn at £40-a-head remigration snoozefest
“We will make ‘remigration’ the word of 2025,” boasts Homeland’s Kenny Smith. Well, we’re probably going over the top in…
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UKIP slavering at prospect of Musk money
Two people who will be watching the news a little nervously this weekend are UKIP’s Chairman Ben ‘Rogue Builder’ Walker…
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Panic in Collett country as Patriotic Alternative nervously awaits BBC undercover investigation
In the 1980s, it was widely rumoured and widely believed that all you needed to get into a Mark 2…
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“I’ll tell you who most despises so-called ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ – honest-to-goodness Muslims”
By Amir Mohammed, Senior Searchlight researcher You probably don’t notice or think about it a lot of the time, but…
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Reform MPs out to smear all British-Pakistani men
In yesterday’s Children’s debate in the House of Commons, Nigel Farage treated us to this revealing little outburst: ”What we…
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Obituary: Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928-2025), a thug and a fraudster
In a lifetime of political thuggery, fraud and nepotism, Jean-Marie Le Pen (who has died aged 96) typified fascist politics.…
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Will Reform candidate who refused election fix be dumped for Nick Tenconi’s Tory mate?
Most people will certainly have missed yesterday’s online announcement from Andrew Southall, Reform UK’s parliamentary candidate for Dudley in July’s general election, that he was quitting as the party’s constituency chairman. Why would anyone sensible concern themselves with the comings…
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Let’s stomp on all child rapists, not just those whose ethnicity irks Tory-Reform swing voters.
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch leapt on to Twitter/X yesterday to demand a national public inquiry into what she called…
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Traditional Britain Group’s nutty professors raise eyebrows
The Traditional Britain Group regards itself as the most upmarket outfit on the British far right, purveyor of prejudice to…
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Will ‘new wave’ Christian nationalists be the death of Britain First in 2025?
As so-called ‘Christian Nationalism’ begins to grip the far right in Britain, Mark Scholl asks how long Paul Golding’s Britain…
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Italian police smash fascist plot to kill Meloni and spark race war
One of Europe’s leading Holocaust deniers, with close links to UK historical revisionists, has been arrested as Italian police foiled…
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The UKIP plan to run Tommy Robinson for Parliament – as more Robinson supporters pack party NEC
The growing unity between Tommy Robinson’s racist ‘cultural movement’ and UKIP proceeds apace with a full-fledged embrace only held up…
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Nazi terrorist was being groomed for UKIP leadership role
Cavan Medlock – the Nazi terrorist sentenced a week ago to an ‘indefinite hospital order’ (in other words psychiatric facility…
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Reform candidates benefit from low turnouts in council by elections
”We came a close second. The Conservatives got 1,304 votes. We got 977. Nearly a thousand votes in 4 weeks.…
International news
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Obituary: Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928-2025), a thug and a fraudster
In a lifetime of political thuggery, fraud and nepotism, Jean-Marie Le Pen (who has died aged 96) typified fascist politics.…
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Italian police smash fascist plot to kill Meloni and spark race war
One of Europe’s leading Holocaust deniers, with close links to UK historical revisionists, has been arrested as Italian police foiled…
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Hero’s welcome for far right assassin of ANC leader
Janusz Walus, the racist fanatic who murdered Nelson Mandela’s right-hand man Chris Hani in 1993, has been deported from South…
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Rival nazi groups come together at mystery international conference
On 24th November an international nazi conference took place in Sweden. Only one of the participants – Holocaust denier Lady…
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Traditional Britain fiasco sparks accusations of betrayal on far right
The cancellation of the Traditional Britain Group annual Xmas event in London last weekend has kicked off a bitter blame game on the far right, with accusation of betrayal made against one of the far right’s most prominent figures. The…
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UKIP liars not welcome in Southampton
UKIP ‘Leader’ (he’s still unelected) Nick Tenconi has go the hump that a meeting he was due to address in…
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Fascists upset at a taste of their own medicine
Well, those nazi ‘intellectual’ poseurs at Heritage and Destiny magazine are getting themselves into a right lather over the Traditional…
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Anniversary of a fascist outrage – and how the NF lauded the man behind it
Fifty five years ago today, in December 1969, members of the Italian fascist terror group Ordine Nuovo detonated a bomb…
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Homeland Party recruit fires up old far right rivalries
As we reported yesterday, the Traditional Britain Group (TBG) will tonight welcome Pete North (above), an ex-UKIP activist and recent…
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Hero’s welcome for far right assassin of ANC leader
Janusz Walus, the racist fanatic who murdered Nelson Mandela’s right-hand man Chris Hani in 1993, has been deported from South…
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Homeland Party speaker to star at Traditional Britain Group Xmas event
While we are not hugely surprised to see that Traditional Britain Group (TBG) have unveiled Pete ‘No Dick’ North (above)…
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UKIP – all aboard Chairman Walker’s magic roundabout
A flurry of activity in UKIP-world following the ‘appointment’ of eleven new members to the party’s National Executive Committee has…
Research and analysis
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“I’ll tell you who most despises so-called ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ – honest-to-goodness Muslims”
By Amir Mohammed, Senior Searchlight researcher You probably don’t notice or think about it a lot of the time, but…
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Britain First: The end of the road?
As the party lurches from defeat to disaster, Mark Scholl wonders how much longer its leader, Paul Golding, can continue…
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A shifting kaleidoscope: the state of Britain’s far right at the end of 2024
The current crop of extremist parties and hangers-on follows the same pattern of chopping and changing alliances as in the…
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Is ’two-tier policing’ real? Perhaps – but not in the sense the far right means
On 19 October the far right were granted their post-Southport riots martyr when Peter Lynch died at Moorland Prison. Lynch,…
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Rival nazi groups come together at mystery international conference
On 24th November an international nazi conference took place in Sweden. Only one of the participants – Holocaust denier Lady Michèle Renouf – (above, centre) was English, but the speeches were all given in or translated into English, and the…
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AfD comes first in Thuringia elections
Dr Kat Williams and Dr Siobhan Hyland examine the ascendance of the German far right party in recent elections Voters…
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‘Lili Marlene’: the song that haunted the Nazis
Martin Smith reflects on how one song and two singers came to represent opposition and resistance to Hitler in the Second…
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Heritage Party leader bemoans ‘injustice’ for holocaust-denying nazi
Searchlight has been reporting for several months on the increasing radicalisation of right-wing parties. Not just the obviously racist and…
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Tommy Robinson jailed, but link-up with UKIP goes ahead
It’s been an eventful few months on the Tommy Robinson front since Searchlight last went to press. He has orchestrated…
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‘Unite the Kingdom’ rallies flop across UK
At the end of October, ‘Tommy Robinson’ held his last national ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally in London. He, of course,…
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UKIP: Rats desert the sinking ship
Tony Peters takes the pulse of the terminally ill UKIP, which barely scraped together 40 delegates for its annual conference…
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Italy: Court rules ‘It’s OK to make the fascist salute’
Meloni stays silent, as far right welcomes ruling by Italy’s top court that displays of the raised arm salute are…
Trade union news
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The seafarers and rail workers who fought fascism
STEVE SILVER spotlights the role of trade unions in countering fascism VISITORS TO TRANSPORT UNION RMT headquarters in London can…
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Italian far-right group leaders arrested after violent clashes in Rome
Roberto Fiore, along with 11 other Forza Nuova members were arrested on Saturday after demonstrating against coronavirus measures and later…
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Shrewsbury 24: Ricky Tomlinson among picketers to have convictions quashed by Court of Appeal over 1972 strike
The convictions have been overturned in the Court of Appeal today after a decades long campaign Ricky Tomlinson has said…
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PCS statement on the policing bill
There are many concerns about the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill that has passed its second reading in the…
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Stieg Larsson 1954 - 2004. A dedicated anti-fascist and dear friend of Searchlight
Stieg Larsson is best known – and known the world over – for his Millennium Trilogy: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, three novels about the…
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USA: Hate-spewing Terrorgram channels lose key motivators
A significant blow befell the transnational network of neo-nazi accelerationists when two leaders of the so-called Terrorgram Collective were arrested.…
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Nigel Farage and Traditional Unionists: Discord and disunity
Reform UK’s former party chair Ben Habib has hit out at leader Nigel Farage, writes Ian McGreal, accusing him of ditching…
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From the archive: Police operation that seized a UK neo-nazi arsenal – with a little help from a Searchlight mole
At a time when gun ownership was far more lax than today, a group of fascists set about stockpiling a…
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Thug who threw missiles at police during firebomb attack on Tamworth hotel is latest Patriotic Alternative ‘political prisoner’
“£2000 GIFTED TO FAMILY OF POLITICAL PRISONER JORDAN WINYARD” screams the latest Trump-style, all-caps announcement from the, as ever, over-excitable…
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The bigots of Baggot Street: a stain on Dublin publishing
Bryan Wall exposes a Dublin-based company whose texts peddle ‘the great replacement theory’, ‘Marxist cults’ and ‘the climate change hoax’ by…
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Film review: Comrade Tambo’s London Recruits (12A, 2024)
By Cathy Pound This breath-taking documentary has been long in the making, has already won 7 awards and will no…
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‘Blitz’: how racists try to rewrite history
So, the far right – in this case the Traditional Britain Group – is getting all upset about a new…
Anti-fascism
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The seafarers and rail workers who fought fascism
STEVE SILVER spotlights the role of trade unions in countering fascism VISITORS TO TRANSPORT UNION RMT headquarters in London can…
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The Searchlight secret agent who helped destroy the BNP
The British National Party probably never experienced such a hefty and concerted blow as it did 20 years ago, in…
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Berlin and the red triangle
By Steve Silver The red triangle was in the news recently when the city of Berlin senate banned its use…
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A historic day for the anti-fascist movement
Searchlight send its heartfelt greetings to all those who worked so hard to pull off Wednesday’s remarkable mobilisations around the…
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Britain First: The end of the road?
As the party lurches from defeat to disaster, Mark Scholl wonders how much longer its leader, Paul Golding, can continue to kid enough people to fund his futile activities In 2016, Paul Golding and his ex‑girlfriend Jayda Fransen were able…
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A shifting kaleidoscope: the state of Britain’s far right at the end of 2024
The current crop of extremist parties and hangers-on follows the same pattern of chopping and changing alliances as in the…
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Pssst…Britain First are having a demo. But it’s a SECRET!
This is going to be interesting – BF leader Paul Golding has been boasting about having 20k paid up members.…
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Is ’two-tier policing’ real? Perhaps – but not in the sense the far right means
On 19 October the far right were granted their post-Southport riots martyr when Peter Lynch died at Moorland Prison. Lynch,…
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‘Batshit preacher’ to be trumped by Farage?
Nigel Farage has, predictably, been basking in his purported friendship with Donald Trump ever since the disastrous Presidential election result…
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Reform UK’s Plymouth cess pit
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK say they’ve been cleaning up their act since dozens of fascists, racists and other extremists were…
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Kristallnacht remembered
To mark the anniversary of the 1938 November Pogrom, otherwise known as Kristallnacht, we reprint a special article published by…
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What Trump’s election means
We are not going to try to list all the ways in which the election of Donald Trump is a…
Holocaust
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The seafarers and rail workers who fought fascism
STEVE SILVER spotlights the role of trade unions in countering fascism VISITORS TO TRANSPORT UNION RMT headquarters in London can…
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The Searchlight secret agent who helped destroy the BNP
The British National Party probably never experienced such a hefty and concerted blow as it did 20 years ago, in…
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The nazi who planned a US massacre and helped set up Combat 18
By Mark Scholl This weekend we remember the victims of the Greensboro massacre in 1979, when Ku Klux Klan and…
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Latest ‘Tommy Robinson’ grift exploits his kids
The Tommy Robinson grift gets more outrageous all the time. Now it’s “with Tommy sentenced to a lengthy prison term,…
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“Splits in Reform UK as senior figures defend Tommy Robinson supporters”
The Guardian reports that there is a split in the leadership of Reform UK, over whether they should support Tommy…
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Takeaways from today’s ‘Uniting the Kingdom’ rally in London
A few takeaways from today’s ‘Uniting the Kingdom’ rally in London. Without the presence of ‘Tommy Robinson’ himself, the whole…
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Tommy Robinson’s key organiser appointed to UKIP executive
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) may not have joined UKIP himself but his right hand-man, and the main organiser of…
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Another criminal recruited to UKIP leadership
Never let it be said that UKIP doesn’t offer unique opportunities for speedy advancement. After the election in May of…