Searchlight
Fighting against racism and fascism
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“Homosexuals are not cowards” – The man who bombed the nazi files
On this day in 1943, a small group of Dutch resistance fighters carried out one of the most audacious acts of sabotage of the Nazi occupation, an operation that saved countless Jewish lives and struck a blow against the machinery…
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Danish Election – DPP comeback as far right vote is reshuffled
Denmark’s snap general election earlier this week produced a clutch of headlines about far-right gains, but they were not as…
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Man who was ‘front and centre’ of far-right Hull riots jailed for six years
One of the leaders of the racist mob violence that engulfed Hull city centre during the riots of August 2024…
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Australian nazi leader faces trial over attack on sacred Aboriginal site
Thomas Sewell, the leader of the now-disbanded National Socialist Network (NSN), has been committed to stand trial over a violent…
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‘Shut down’ Bristol Patriots re-emerge with new name and hospital flag stunt
Well, that didn’t last long. The far-right gang formerly known as Bristol Patriots which announced only last week it was…
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UKIP’s only local councillor quits party after 6 months
Amid all the excitement around the walkout at County Hall in Maidstone last Thursday,it was barely noticed that among those…
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From Searchlight 40 years ago: Blueprint for genocide
In March 1986, Searchlight magazine exposed how the National Front was peddling a blueprint for extermination written by the leader…
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The gamechanger that wasn’t: how the Kremlin planned to rescue Orbán
Russian intelligence does not do subtlety. It does, however, do audacity, and an internal document obtained by the Washington Post…
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Ambulance fire bombing ignites far-right antisemitism
The arson attack on four ambulances belonging to a Jewish community organization in north London, set ablaze outside a synagogue on Monday, ignited a frenzy of antisemitic spite from far-right cheerleaders and trolls in the U.K. and internationally. It also…
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Joe Louis and the battle for civil rights
Joe Louis, who held the world heavyweight boxing title from 1937 to 1949, is remembered today chiefly as a sporting…
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Liverpool inflicts another crushing defeat on UKIP
The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and hoping for different results. Somebody needs to tell…
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Neo-nazi leader and Capitol rioter held on gun charges
The FBI has arrested Mathew David Bair, a leading member of the neo-Nazi accelerationist network Injekt Division, and convicted of…
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Tommy Robinson’s grand tour of America’s anti-democratic right
Tommy Robinson has spent much of late February and March touring the United States, and it has revealed much about…
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Danny Tommo says ‘F*** Israel’ as Tommy Robinson woos Zionist right in America
One of the latest stops on Tommy Robinson’s U.S. tour was a swanky gala hosted by the right-wing Zionist Organization…
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Australian nazis in court over Anzac Day disruption
Three members of Australia’s neo-Nazi National Socialist Network (NSN) are to contest charges arising from their disruption of a dawn…
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Kent’s Reform council defies election law with migrant emergency motion
Reform UK’s Kent County councillors have declared an “illegal migration emergency” in the county despite warnings that to do so…
International news
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“Homosexuals are not cowards” – The man who bombed the nazi files
On this day in 1943, a small group of Dutch resistance fighters carried out one of the most audacious acts…
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Danish Election – DPP comeback as far right vote is reshuffled
Denmark’s snap general election earlier this week produced a clutch of headlines about far-right gains, but they were not as…
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Australian nazi leader faces trial over attack on sacred Aboriginal site
Thomas Sewell, the leader of the now-disbanded National Socialist Network (NSN), has been committed to stand trial over a violent…
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From Searchlight 40 years ago: Blueprint for genocide
In March 1986, Searchlight magazine exposed how the National Front was peddling a blueprint for extermination written by the leader…
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How the American far right divides over Iran war
On 28 February the U.S. and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran, an ongoing bombing campaign that has already seen U.S. culpability in the killing of at least 175 people, mostly young girls, at the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school.…
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Pirate ship rebel hosts far-right fight club
Growing up in the noughties and 2010s, I remember being told about the dangers of violent video games. Everybody from…
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UKIP’s Liverpool ‘March for Jesus’ condemned by city’s Christians
This Saturday, the streets of Liverpool are set to witness a deeply polarizing spectacle. Nick Tenconi, the leader of UKIP,…
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Restore councillor shares antisemitic, racist post
A local councillor who recently defected from Reform UK to Restore Britain shared a post on X containing the N-word…
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Reform council’s ‘illegal migration emergency’ motion pulled in row over election rules
A Reform UK motion to declare an “Illegal Migration Emergency in Kent” has been pulled from tomorrow’s Kent County Council…
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Restore Britain and Advance UK in ‘full tilt’ feud
The far right’s much-hoped-for populist right realignment, meant to fuse Ben Habib’s Advance UK and Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain, has…
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From green campaigner to harassing Green MP – the radicalisation of ‘Steve James’
The radicalisation of the man known as “Steve James” – one of the men centrally involved in harassing and distressing…
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National Rebirth Party exits stage right as theatre throws them out
The National Rebirth Party had been promising their first national meeting of 2026 for weeks. Venue: somewhere in the West…
Research and analysis
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Respectability, ideology and networks – why Farage’s new adviser matters
Dr James Orr, a theologian and philosopher of religion at the University of Cambridge was last month appointed senior adviser…
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Farage, Reform and the ‘Russia question’ that won’t go away
In the wake of Nathan Gill’s guilty verdict on multiple counts of bribery for taking payments in exchange for pro-Kremlin…
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The Resistible Rise of Reform UK
The May election results were a warning, if one was needed, of the danger of an insurgent Reform UK. Sarah…
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Traditional Britain Group – secrecy, elitism, and the far right’s academic mask
On Saturday May 10, 2025, the Traditional Britain Group will host a luncheon in London to replace its annual black-tie…
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The French far right and the martyrdom of a nazi street thug
When Quentin Deranque died on 14 February, two days after suffering catastrophic head injuries in a street fight in Lyon, something else died alongside him: any honest account of who he actually was, or how he came to die. Within…
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The man whose ‘nice debate’ meant police protection for a woman MP
Meet Alex Jardine. He’s very unhappy at the moment because he’s found himself at the centre of controversy. Hardly surprising…
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The promise that never was: Nigel Farage and the art of barefaced denial
It’s a script Nigel Farage knows well. Candidates or causes closely linked to him, perhaps even bearing his name and…
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Nazi publisher hit by raids across Europe
One of Europe’s most active nazi publishers has been hit by coordinated police raids in Germany, Poland, and Spain. Der…
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Isabel Peralta escapes arrest as nazis disrupt Women’s Day march in Madrid
Isabel Peralta, one of Spain’s most prominent neo-Nazi activists, and closely linked to UK nazis, was at the centre of…
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Heil and farewell – how Ryan Ferguson shut down the Bristol Patriots
Just days after their humiliating “March for Unity”, in which a paltry 40 far-right activists required the protection of more…
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Grifters and gobshites – far right’s chaotic failure in Ramsgate
Last Saturday (7 March) the amorphous far-right ecosystem in the south of England pulled off the feat of staging a…
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Manchester – fascist thugs target women MPs
Fascists in Manchester yesterday tried to attack Hannah Spencer, the newly-elected MP for Gorton and Denton as she left a…
Culture
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Fascist boss tries to rescue beleaguered rockabilly singer
The anti-migrant march in Faversham last November led to some unfortunate consequences for up-and-coming local musician Dylan Kirk after he…
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Fascist singer’s London gig axed after protests
The Underworld in Camden, London, has cancelled the scheduled gig by Michale Graves, the far-right aligned American rock singer. We…
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London venue to host US fascist singer
Next week The Underworld in Camden is scheduled to host a solo performance by Michale Graves, a musician whose early…
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How purple-haired cartoon ‘Amelia’ became a far-right icon
Amelia was never meant to be real. She began life as a cartoon character in a government-backed game designed to…
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Far-right chaos merchant may cost Reform in Margate
A former British National Party organiser in Kent may be about to throw a spanner in the works of Reform UK’s hopes of recovering a crucial county council seat in a by-election When we last reported on the tangled tale…
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Bristol – forty fascists, 200 cops, and a city that wasn’t having it
An embarrassing collection of around 40 far-right activists called out by the Bristol ‘Patriots’ attempted to march through Bristol city…
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Germany’s ‘anti-elite’ AfD rocked by nepotism scandal
The far-right Alternative für Deutschland positions itself as anti-elite; an alternative to Germany’s establishment parties. However, a strong culture of…
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Obituary: Leon Greenman
Auschwitz survivor and lifelong anti-fascist campaigner Leon Greenman died on this day in 2008. This obituary, in Searchlight, was written…
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UKIP candidate hits historic low – two votes and counting
Pop the champagne corks at UKIP HQ, or at least crack open whatever discount lager remains after Nick Tenconi’s close…
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War criminal exposed by Searchlight will face trial posthumously
The Supreme Court of Belarus has announced that it will begin criminal proceedings against Antanas Gecevičius, better known in Scotland…
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Justice confirmed: Greek court upholds Golden Dawn convictions
More than twelve years after the murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, a Greek appeals court has delivered a decisive…
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Nazi paedophile pleads guilty to terror offences
A Cambridgeshire neo-nazi sympathiser, already convicted of serious child pornography offences, has been found guilty of a range of terrorism-related…
Anti-fascism
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“Homosexuals are not cowards” – The man who bombed the nazi files
On this day in 1943, a small group of Dutch resistance fighters carried out one of the most audacious acts…
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Obituary: Leon Greenman
Auschwitz survivor and lifelong anti-fascist campaigner Leon Greenman died on this day in 2008. This obituary, in Searchlight, was written…
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The 22 martyrs of Plötzensee: remembering the anti-nazi Baum Group
In the heart of Hitler’s Berlin, a small group of young Jewish men and women chose to fight back. On…
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Paul Golding blames police conspiracy for Manchester humiliation
After Saturday’s Britain First march through Manchester, the one that, as Searchlight reported yesterday, was repeatedly stalled, split, and ultimately…
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The 22 martyrs of Plötzensee: remembering the anti-nazi Baum Group
In the heart of Hitler’s Berlin, a small group of young Jewish men and women chose to fight back. On this day in 1943, nine of them were beheaded by guillotine at Plötzensee Prison. They were mostly in their early…
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Tommy Robinson laughs (at you) all the way to the bank
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, the man who trades under the alter-ego “Tommy Robinson” like some pound shop superhero, has issued an ill-tempered…
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Tommy Robinson, rape campaigner – unless you’re white
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, has built a career on weaponising sexual violence allegations against Muslim men. Grooming…
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Meet Rupert Lowe’s latest recruit – a nazi jailbird linked to a terror group
Meet the latest recruit to be welcomed into Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain – one of the UK’s most notorious nazis…
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Big talk, tiny turnout for loud mouthed Worcester far right
For weeks, the “Patriots of Worcester”, a local far right group that operates and organises primarily on Facebook, had been…
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School faced wave of abuse after Tommy Robinson lies
A Glasgow school has been hit with a wave of abuse after Tommy Robinson circulated false claims online about an…
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Theatre review: Here There Are Blueberries, by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
This extraordinary production at Stratford East lands with the quiet, cumulative force of a dossier being opened in front of…
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Ex‑BNP organiser causes far‑right chaos in Kent
A former British National Party organiser is at the centre of an increasingly chaotic far‑right muddle in Kent, lurching from…
Holocaust
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Nazi publisher hit by raids across Europe
One of Europe’s most active nazi publishers has been hit by coordinated police raids in Germany, Poland, and Spain. Der…
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Obituary: Leon Greenman
Auschwitz survivor and lifelong anti-fascist campaigner Leon Greenman died on this day in 2008. This obituary, in Searchlight, was written…
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War criminal exposed by Searchlight will face trial posthumously
The Supreme Court of Belarus has announced that it will begin criminal proceedings against Antanas Gecevičius, better known in Scotland…
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Theatre review: Here There Are Blueberries, by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
This extraordinary production at Stratford East lands with the quiet, cumulative force of a dossier being opened in front of…
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Another far-right extremist jailed for terrorist offences
A 23‑year‑old from Buckinghamshire has become the latest right-wing extremist to be jailed for terrorism offences, Nicholas Gilpin, from Farnham Common, was found guilty on charges including possessing terrorist information, encouraging terrorism, and stirring up racial hatred. He was sentenced…
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Fascists attack Manchester Stop The War meeting
After Britain First’s distastrous day out in Manchester last weekend, local fascists have tried to up the ante with a…
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Son’s jet set photos expose the Tommy Robinson poverty scam
Tommy Robinson’s insistence that he is a destitute family man living hand‑to‑mouth becomes rather harder to swallow when his son…
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Gorton & Denton: tactical voting stalls Reform’s momentum
The Gorton and Denton by‑election will be remembered less for the identity of the victor than for the method of…
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When a European democracy faced a fascist coup
Yesterday we were all reminded – as if we needed reminding in the age of Trump, Farage and Lowe –…
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Banned US neo‑nazi joins Restore Britain
Restore Britain has admitted a high‑profile American white supremacist as a member, despite the fact he is banned from entering…
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Advance candidate at ease in company of known fascists
Further evidence that Advance UK is relaxed about working with established extremists comes in the form of a lengthy online…
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The hardcore nazi campaigning for Advance UK
One of Britain’s most active nazis has been campaigning for Advance UK candidate Nick Buckley at this week’s Gorton &…
Today's top ten most read articles
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Banned US neo‑nazi joins Restore Britain
Restore Britain has admitted a high‑profile American white supremacist as a member, despite the fact he is banned from entering…
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Advance candidate at ease in company of known fascists
Further evidence that Advance UK is relaxed about working with established extremists comes in the form of a lengthy online…
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The hardcore nazi campaigning for Advance UK
One of Britain’s most active nazis has been campaigning for Advance UK candidate Nick Buckley at this week’s Gorton &…
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Neo-nazis take centre stage at Wrexham far-right rally
A small anti‑migrant demonstration in Wrexham last Sunday brought together activists from several well‑known far‑right groups. On the ground, the…
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Talk TV presenter attacks ‘very left wing, relentless’ Searchlight
Searchlight has been blamed for many things over the years, but being the puppet‑master behind the downward career trajectory of…
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Nazi teenager jailed for terror offences
A 17‑year‑old boy has been found guilty of multiple terror offences after joining a banned neo‑nazi terrorist group, collecting extremist…
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Far-right merger collapses as Ben Habib slams ‘dictator’ Lowe
The uneasy courtship between Ben Habib’s Advance UK and Rupert Lowe’s newly-launched Restore Britain party has collapsed into open hostility,…
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UKIP appeals for twelve well-heeled disciples
UKIP has unveiled its latest fundraising wheeze, the “UK12 Donor Club”, a scheme to sign up a group of supporters…