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Fighting against racism and fascism
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After Epping – what next for the far right?
Many factions on Britain’s far right are scrambling to claim credit after the temporary High Court injunction ordered the removal of asylum seekers from The Bell Hotel in Epping. The Refugee Council and many others agree that use of hotels…
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How John Tyndall helped cover up a racist murder
It is a very long time since I was a Searchlight mole inside the British fascist movement. Over 30 years…
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‘Tommy Robinson’ enjoys sixth luxury holiday in a year…and guess who’s with him
Tommy Robinson is on another expensive Mediterranean holiday, this time in Northern Cyprus, in a villa in Kyrenia. It’s the…
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Patriotic Alternative treasurer’s mystery links to spooks and fraudsters
Within hours of Searchlight reporting yesterday on the death of Patriotic Alternative treasurer Steve Blake, some of the many online…
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Top nazi’s death is blow to Patriotic Alternative
One of Britain’s most secretive nazis and a key player in Patriotic Alternative, died this week aged 61. Steve Blake…
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Liverpool anti-fascists go toe to toe with far-right thugs and see them off
Today, in Liverpool, reporting for Searchlight, I found myself in the forefront as anti-fascists fought off a violent mob of…
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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…
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All time Lowe…
Ex-Reform now independent MP Rupert Lowe reacts hysterically to the sight of a rowing boat off the Norfolk coast, sparking…
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‘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…
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‘Threats, bullying, lies, harassment’ – former supporter accuses ‘Team Tommy Robinson’
Clare Walsh and James Hodges, aka The Viking, are highly-capable organisers and for some time have been front and centre…
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Tommy Robinson joins Ben Habib’s Advance UK
Tommy Robinson has announced that he is joining Ben Habib’s Advance UK party, and is calling on his followers to…
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Reform UK selects UKIP branch officer as election candidate
The Reform UK vetting system appears to have suffered another glitch, but not the usual type where nutjob extremists are…
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Manchester – latest chapter in Britain First’s slow death
Britain First leadership was confidently predicting thousands of marchers for its event today in Manchester. It turned out to be…
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The ‘stay behind’ NATO operation behind the Bologna bombing
The massacre on 2 August 1980 at Bologna railway station when a bomb planted by fascists killed 85 people, including…
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Sweden ‘remigrates’ PA leader Mark Collett
Patriotic Alternative leader Mark Collett is a very unhappy chap tonight. Travelling to Sweden to address a ‘Free Sweden’ event…
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‘National Protest’ organiser suggests funds pay for his mortgage and ‘washing machine repairs’
Great British National Protest organiser Richard Donaldson has infuriated his far-right supporters by appearing to suggest online that their contributions…
International news
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The ‘stay behind’ NATO operation behind the Bologna bombing
The massacre on 2 August 1980 at Bologna railway station when a bomb planted by fascists killed 85 people, including…
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Poland’s far right targets refugees
Just as in Britain, the US and Hungary, the far right in Poland is now mobilising around the question of…
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Nick Tenconi’s US mates join Epstein child abuse cover-up
The American parent organisation of Nick Tenconi’s Turning Point UK has caved in to pressure from President Trump and dropped…
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Labin 1921: miners lead Europe’s first anti-fascist revolt
The Labin Uprising of 1921, often heralded as the first anti-fascist revolt and workers’ republic in Europe, is a landmark…
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Tommy Robinson – what we know about the St Pancras incident
After an altercation at St Pancras station in London on Monday evening, which ended with an elderly man unconscious on the ground, Tommy Robinson quickly fled the country, apparently to Spain. This is what we know so far about what…
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Obituary: Horst Mahler (1936-2025), from left-wing terrorist to leading nazi and holocaust denier
German security forces are on alert after the death of Horst Mahler, the Baader-Meinhof terrorist who became one of Europe’s…
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Epping sets anti-racists a challenge we cannot shirk
In Epping, organised fascists and their racist supporters have scored a notable victory over the last couple of weeks. The…
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Homeland bigots burn children’s ‘no place for hate’ banner in Epping
This was a simple message of welcome and harmony posted in Epping by a group of parents and their children.…
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Norwich anti-migrant protest organiser arrested
Anti-fascists are busy all over the country today as local far right groups try to capitalise on events in Epping,…
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Epping this Sunday – anti-racists must nip far-right violence in the bud
On 7 August last year, in response to direct fascist threats of violence against organisations helping migrants and asylum seekers,…
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Poland’s far right targets refugees
Just as in Britain, the US and Hungary, the far right in Poland is now mobilising around the question of…
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Farage’s false claims risk stoking racist violence
Last year’s race riots became known as the Farage Riots for one simple reason – Nigel Farage went online and…
Research and analysis
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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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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…
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Book Review: The Little Black Book of the Populist Right, Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar
This short, highly readable book explores the growing influence of what Bloomfield and Edgar describe as the ‘populist right’. This…
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Gang of fruitbats and convicted crooks to descend on Wales
The Tommy Robinson fanboys who make up the far-right, self-styled Voice of Wales are holding a public event in south Wales this Saturday with a dazzling array of fruitbats and convicted crooks on the platform. VoW is run by two…
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‘Tommy Robinson’ winds up Canary Wharf protests
So, if you were wondering how far-right protestors turned up so suddenly yesterday at a hotel in Canary Wharf in…
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Exclusive: Homeland defector exposes ugly truth behind ‘sensible nationalism’
Alex Bramham has always been on the right of politics. Last year he stood in the General Election for the…
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Fanning the flames – far right aims to whip up summer of race riots
Let’s be under no illusions about the significance of this week’s events in Epping – this is simply the first…
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‘They’re calling us nazis’ protests ‘Heil Hitler’ nazi
That troublemaking POS Ryan Ferguson was arrested yet again yesterday, this time at the racist demonstration against the construction of…
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Grim up north : far-right ‘Manchester Protest’ flops
When Claire Walsh, the organiser of the much-vaunted and much-hyped Manchester Protest, aka National Strike, disappears off to Dover for…
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No rain, but far-right Dover ‘National Protest’ is still a washout
Although the promised south coast thunderstorms didn’t materialise, the Great British National Protest on Dover beach today turned out to…
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Nick Tenconi’s US mates join Epstein child abuse cover-up
The American parent organisation of Nick Tenconi’s Turning Point UK has caved in to pressure from President Trump and dropped…
Culture
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Review: Celebrating Billie Holiday, jazz great and civil rights activist
A great night at the Jazz Café, Camden, on 7 April when we were transported back to the Jim Crow…
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‘Lili Marlene’: the song that haunted the Nazis
One song and two singers came to represent opposition and resistance to Hitler in the Second World War. The most beautiful…
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Berlin and the red triangle
The red triangle was in the news recently when the city of Berlin senate banned its use on activities related…
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Theatre Review: The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, by Dario Fo and Franca Rame
The Accidental Death of an Anarchist is a play that arose from events in December 1969, when Italian fascists bombed…
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Tommy Robinson on his sunbed again – in £10k a week Portuguese resort
Tommy Robinson’s supporters need to get their wallets out. There’s almost certainly another appeal for funds on its way for the lad’s ‘legal fund’. Because Tommy’s on his sunbed again, and this time he’s at a £10k a week Portuguese…
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Labin 1921: miners lead Europe’s first anti-fascist revolt
The Labin Uprising of 1921, often heralded as the first anti-fascist revolt and workers’ republic in Europe, is a landmark…
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Reform UK election candidate attends neo-nazi Summer camp
Searchlight can reveal that a Reform UK election candidate is actively involved with a neo-Nazi organisation. One of their most…
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White Vanguard nazi is prominent Reform activist
Meet Kai Cunningham. He’s a law student whose LinkedIn profile says he wants to develop his public speaking skills. So…
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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…
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Outrage in Northern Ireland as loyalists plan bonfire of migrant effigies
Outrage in Northern Ireland. When the Democratic Unionist Party says something is extreme, you know it’s really extreme. Not known…
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‘Tommy Robinson’ hints at link up with Habib’s Advance UK
Well, that didn’t take long. Only a few days ago we suggested that Tommy Robinson had given up the idea…
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UK bans far-right Russian terror group
The controversy surrounding the UK government’s recent ban on Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000 has tended to obscure…
Anti-fascism
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Epping sets anti-racists a challenge we cannot shirk
In Epping, organised fascists and their racist supporters have scored a notable victory over the last couple of weeks. The…
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Epping this Sunday – anti-racists must nip far-right violence in the bud
On 7 August last year, in response to direct fascist threats of violence against organisations helping migrants and asylum seekers,…
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Fanning the flames – far right aims to whip up summer of race riots
Let’s be under no illusions about the significance of this week’s events in Epping – this is simply the first…
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Labin 1921: miners lead Europe’s first anti-fascist revolt
The Labin Uprising of 1921, often heralded as the first anti-fascist revolt and workers’ republic in Europe, is a landmark…
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Mark Collett – Putin’s nazi propagandist
Last weekend, Patriotic Alternative’s führer Mark Collett again took on the role of Moscow propagandist, hosting Evgeniy (Eugene), a spokesman for the Russian Brotherhood of Academists. A fortnight previously this Russian student “Brotherhood” broadcast an interview with Elon Musk’s racist…
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Top ‘Tommy Robinson’ organiser joins Ben Habib’s Advance UK
One of Tommy Robinson’s main organisers, Richard Inman, has publicly joined up with Ben Habib’s new Advance UK party, abandoning…
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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…
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Tommy Robinson on holiday with Southport riot instigator
Ever since we reported on Tommy Robinson’s various post-prison vacations, people have been asking who he is actually enjoying his…
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Apology and correction
Last Sunday (22 June) we ran an article about right-wing photographers who were taking pictures of people attending left-wing or…
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‘Searchlight is 99% right’ nazi leader tells British fascists
In a post that will infuriate many on the far right – not least of all Searchlight’s legion of online…
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Threats and hate at Dublin anti-migrant rally
A sea of Make Ireland Great Again hats could be seen at a far-right rally in Dublin yesterday, where threats…
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‘Wrecked’ Tommy Robinson sunning himself in Tenerife
“I came out of prison all guns blazing after 7 months in solitary and in all honesty it’s hit me…
Holocaust
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An anniversary David Irving would rather forget
Last Monday was David Irving’s birthday. He celebrated it from his sickbed to which he has been confined for over…
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Fascists and antisemites mourn death of rogue bishop
Last week’s funeral of the far-right, schismatic Bishop Richard Williamson brought into sharp focus the longstanding connections between some ultra-conservative…
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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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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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Nott wanted – Tenconi’s UKIP outed and routed in Nottingham
The ghost of Robin Hood, who stole from the rich, gave to the poor and would assuredly have had little time for the miserable Nick Tenconi, haunted the 50 or so neo-fascist losers who turned up in Nottingham today to…
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A real ‘Day of the Jackal’ – how a Searchlight mole helped catch a French fascist assassin
The recent death of author Frederick Forsyth has led to much discussion of his best-known work, The Day of the…
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Correction:
Yesterday, in an article entitled ‘Reform suspends branch chairman – for reporting concerns to police’, we wrote that the election…
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Reform suspends branch chairman – for reporting concerns to police
Controversy and chaos reign within Reform UK’s Exeter branch, where the party chairman has been suspended for “bringing the party…
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Reform UK – where the money comes from
Reform UK had stunning successes in last month’s council elections, out-polling the established parties, winning 10 councils outright and being…
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Big names of Irish far right come together in Cork anti-migrant demo
Around 1,600 anti-immigration and far-right agitators came together to hold a rally in Cork a week ago. Billed as “Ireland…
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Charlie Veitch and friends attack Palestine march
At a large Palestine march in Manchester city centre today, YouTube clickbait merchant Charlie Veitch and a handful of his…
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UKIP Chairman crashes out to humiliating vote in council by-election
UKIP Chairman Ben Walker’s social media accounts are unusually quiet today – perhaps that’s because he has just led the…
Today's top ten most read articles
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Big names of Irish far right come together in Cork anti-migrant demo
Around 1,600 anti-immigration and far-right agitators came together to hold a rally in Cork a week ago. Billed as “Ireland…
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Charlie Veitch and friends attack Palestine march
At a large Palestine march in Manchester city centre today, YouTube clickbait merchant Charlie Veitch and a handful of his…
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UKIP Chairman crashes out to humiliating vote in council by-election
UKIP Chairman Ben Walker’s social media accounts are unusually quiet today – perhaps that’s because he has just led the…
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UKIP, the ‘rogue builder’ and a matter of trust
Tomorrow is polling day in Severn Ward of Stroud District Council where one of the candidates is UKIP Chairman Ben…
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Tommy Robinson’s latest luxury hideaway – in the Bahamas
‘Tommy Robinson’, aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is once again on holiday abroad and stretched out on his sun lounger, this time…
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Far-right ‘National Protest’ to defy demo ban on Dover beach
The far-right Great British National Protest is planning to defy a ban by the local council and hold a protest…
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UKIP chief launches goon squad fundraiser
If you thought the ‘Batshit Preacher’ Calvin Robinson took the prize for most brazen fundraising grifts, you’d be wrong. He’s…
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Mystery behatted nazi revealed
So, our friends over at HOPE not Hate have put a name to the mystery behatted lady in the Patriotic…
