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The delusional grandiosity of Nick Tenconi
Nick Tenconi appears to be displaying clear symptoms of a condition called ‘grandiose delusions’ characterised (it says here) by believing, for instance, that one Ponder, for instance, the extraordinary email which he has just sent out to his dwindling gaggle…
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The Makerfield by-election has become a poisoned chalice for Reform UK
The Makerfield by-election on 18 June is fast becoming an important acid test for the far-right in the UK, highlighting…
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Meet Reform’s new Redditch mayor: a right-wing troll with an 80-posts-a-day habit
In the sleepy world of Worcestershire Politics, the “Chain Gang” is one of the few sources of real excitement for…
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January 6 baseball bat attacker locked up again
Jake Lang, the white power provocateur and Capitol rioter who is claiming millions in compensation for being jailed over his…
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Makerfield organiser’s ‘Hebrew tattoos’ enrage Restore’s fascist faction
Rupert Lowe’s “no Tories” promise didn’t last long. And one ex-Conservative he has hired – now running Restore’s Makerfield by-election…
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Trump’s Justice Department ‘proud’ it buried crimes of far-right paedophile
The United States Justice Department has deleted from its official website the conviction record of a January 6 rioter who…
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How Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain cult is causing havoc in the UK’s far right
The UK’s far right has been thrown into confusion and bitter recriminations after Rupert Lowe decided to bet the house…
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Dover and out – Kent far right’s demo disasters
As we previously reported, different elements of the shambolic far-right ecosystem in Kent recently announced two separate and uncoordinated anti-migrant…
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UKIP’s ‘Walk with Jesus’ – a monthly pilgrimage to total irrelevance
Nick Tenconi’s monthly pilgrimage through central London in search of a congregation hit a new low on Saturday, when UKIP’s latest “Walk with Jesus” attracted a only couple of dozen marchers, fewer than you’d expect at a moderately well-attended funeral,…
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Tommy Robinson’s Oxford Union debate on the brink of collapse
Reports during the past 24 hours suggest that the Oxford Union has cancelled the appearance of violent criminal Tommy Robinson…
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Capitol rioters queue up for handouts from Trump’s billion dollar slush fund
The Trump administration’s newly created $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund”, sold to the public as a mechanism to compensate those allegedly…
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From Searchlight 20 years ago: Together groups unite communities to oppose the BNP
From the Searchlight archives, this dispatch by Gerry Gable – originally published in May 2006 – documents a critical period…
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Co-leader Ashlea Simon quits Britain First
Ashlea Simon, co-leader of Britain First and partner of the organisation’s founder-leader Paul Golding, has announced via Telegram that she…
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Another day, another of Makerfield Reform candidate’s fascist Facebook friends
So, welcome to day three of our trip through the fascinating fascist Facebook friends of Reform UK’s Makerfield by-election candidate,…
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San Diego mosque attack – how security guard stopped massacre of children
New evidence has confirmed that Monday’s deadly attack on the Islamic Centre of San Diego was a white supremacist hate…
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Meet another of Makerfield Reform candidate’s fascist Facebook friends
Yesterday we introduced readers to Robert Kenyon, Reform UK’s candidate in the Makerfield by-election, and some of the interesting company…
International news
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January 6 baseball bat attacker locked up again
Jake Lang, the white power provocateur and Capitol rioter who is claiming millions in compensation for being jailed over his…
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Trump’s Justice Department ‘proud’ it buried crimes of far-right paedophile
The United States Justice Department has deleted from its official website the conviction record of a January 6 rioter who…
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Vatican issues excommunication threat to far-right Catholic sect
The Vatican has warned the far-right Society of St Pius X (SSPX) that it faces excommunication if it goes ahead…
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Capitol rioters queue up for handouts from Trump’s billion dollar slush fund
The Trump administration’s newly created $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund”, sold to the public as a mechanism to compensate those allegedly…
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Reform’s Makerfield candidate scrubs fascist leader from his Facebook friends
Reform UK have just announced their candidate in the Makerfield by-election, where Manchester mayor Andy Burnham will also be running, as the Labour candidate. Reform’s candidate will be Robert Kenyon, who was recently elected as a councillor to Wigan Council.…
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Nazi jailed for inciting terror attacks and plotting mass poisoning of children
A Georgian neo-nazi who led an extremist network and encouraged followers to carry out bombings, school shootings and poison attacks…
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Three killed in Islamophobic attack on San Diego mosque
Three people were killed when two gunmen opened fire at the Islamic Center of San Diego yesterday morning in an…
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Australia bans nazi network after name change ploy fails
The Australian government has formally banned the network formerly known as the National Socialist Network after concluding that its attempted…
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Teenage nazi gets 15 years for axe attack
Alina Burns, the Bristol neo-nazi whose conviction for the attempted murder of a Kurdish-Iranian barber’s customer was reported in Searchlight…
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Chaos in Worcester as Tory HQ blocks anti-Reform pact
What the hell just happened in Worcestershire? If you have no idea what is going on, that’s probably because you’ve…
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Britain’s first post war racist murder by the far right
Shortly after midnight on 17 May 1959, Kelso Cochrane, a 32-year-old Antiguan carpenter walking home from Paddington General Hospital through…
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Tommy Robinson’s right-hand grifter banned from UK
Eleven far-right speakers have been banned from the UK in the run up to yesterday’s Unite The Kingdom march in…
Research and analysis
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How Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain cult is causing havoc in the UK’s far right
The UK’s far right has been thrown into confusion and bitter recriminations after Rupert Lowe decided to bet the house…
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French elections – far right gains in small town France but blocked in cities
France’s two-round municipal elections, held on 15 and 22 March 2026, have produced a verdict on the far right that…
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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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Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom march goes nowhere
Tommy Robinson’s much-hyped Unite the Kingdom march and rally in central London failed to live up to the hype and was a low-energy affair. While Robinson claimed that “millions are in attendance” and it was the “biggest patriotic display ever”,…
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Kent’s far-right Chuckle Brothers plan another Maidstone outing
The self-styled “Kent Nationalist Movement” – in fact, supporters of Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain led by far-right agitators Harry Hilden…
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Reform suspends councillor for neo-nazi posts
Reform UK has suspended one of its newly elected Sheffield councillors after a string of deleted social media posts revealed…
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Project Sentinel: far-right activist’s fantasy hustle
Stan Robinson, the Swansea-based far-right activist and co-founder of the Voice of Wales (VoW) video channel, is now marketing himself…
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Veteran fascist organiser joins Restore Britain
The fascist faction’s power inside Restore Britain was emphasised on Monday evening in Loughton, Essex. A founding meeting of Restore’s…
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Australian is eighth foreign extremist barred from Tommy Robinson rally
Australian-Israeli far-right provocateur Avi Yemini has been banned from entering the United Kingdom to speak at Saturday’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’…
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Fascists win first round in battle for soul of Restore Britain
Rupert Lowe’s far-right breakaway party had its first big internal row last weekend. It was won by the party’s openly…
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Five more foreign speakers banned from Tommy Robinson rally
The Home Office has extended its ban on foreign far-right speakers attending Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom rally in London…
Culture
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‘Destiny’ at 50 – a play that is ‘actually necessary’
This year sees the 50th anniversary of David Edgar’s anti-fascist play Destiny, premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford…
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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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Anger and resignations as Oxford Union invites more far-right speakers
Opposition is growing in Oxford after the Union’s disgraceful invitation to racist thug Tommy Robinson. The convicted criminal and notorious grifter is due to appear at the Oxford Union on 28th May to “debate” the motion, “This House believes the…
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The ‘big lie’ of omission – Alek Yerbury rewrites his weekend debacle
It was Adolf Hitler, not his deputy Joseph Goebbels, who first coined the phrase “the big lie.” Yet Alek Yerbury,…
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Exclusive: The Tommo Tapes – how Danny Tommo plotted to dump Tommy Robinson
A trove of voice messages handed toSearchlight by a source inside the far-right offers a revealing insight into the mix…
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Police raid neo-nazi networks across Germany
German police swooped on addresses across a dozen federal states on 6 May, targeting suspected ringleaders of two neo-nazi youth…
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2026 elections: Reform rides high while fascist fringe squabbles over the scraps
Last Thursday’s elections for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Senedd, and English local councils were a shock to anti-fascists, with unprecedented…
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UK neo-nazi to speak in European Parliament
Steve Laws is one of Britain’s most dangerous and prolific neo-nazi agitators. And next month he will be speaking in…
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Manchester anti-fascists rout neo-nazi leaders in city centre humiliation
Manchester’s anti-fascists inflicted a hugely embarrassing defeat on neo-nazis today when National Rebirth Party leader Alek Yerbury and veteran neo-nazi…
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Fifty years fighting the Klan – now Trump’s DOJ targets anti-fascist investigators
The Southern Poverty Law Centre, for more than five decades devoted to tracking white supremacist and far-right extremist organistions, has…
Anti-fascism
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From Searchlight 20 years ago: Together groups unite communities to oppose the BNP
From the Searchlight archives, this dispatch by Gerry Gable – originally published in May 2006 – documents a critical period…
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Carnival against the Nazis: Victoria Park, April 1978
On 30 April 1978, the Anti-Nazi League and Rock Against Racism pulled off something that British anti-fascism had never managed…
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The 43 Group – when Jewish veterans took the fight to Britain’s fascists
In April, eighty years ago, a British anti-fascist organisation was founded by Jewish ex-servicemen in the aftermath of the Second…
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Died standing: Henk Sneevliet and the fight against Nazi occupation
On this day in April 1942, a 58-year-old Dutch socialist went to his death by firing squad at the Leusderheide,…
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Four arrested following Blairgowrie neo-nazi demo
Four men have been arrested following the Patriotic Alternative-linked protest in Blairgowrie that Searchlight reported earlier this week. The men, aged 33, 44, 48 and 58, have been charged with threatening and abusive behaviour and referred to the Procurator Fiscal.…
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American far-right speaker banned ahead of Tommy Robinson march
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has barred a second American far-right figure from attending Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom rally in…
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Nazi weapons hoarder and paedophile jailed for six years
Paul Page, the Cambridgeshire neo-Nazi sympathiser and convicted paedophile whose guilty plea to terrorism and firearms offences Searchlight reported in…
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Far-right rats-in-a-sack: Tommy Robinson and the missing ‘martyr’s’ money
Simon Tomlin is a far-right has-been. The former BNP apparatchik is stricken with Crohn’s disease and is facing major surgery…
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Nazis desecrate Perthshire war memorial
Scottish First Minister John Swinney has expressed his disgust after around 25 anti-immigration extremists descended on the Perthshire market town…
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Rupert Lowe’s nazi mate denies six million died in the Holocaust
Chris Mitchell, one of the neo-Nazi activists who have embedded themselves in Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain party, has used his…
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Just another walk with thee – UKIP’s latest bid for resurrection
The party that has died more deaths than any other in modern British politics is seeking resurrection, and has chosen,…
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Green Party leader targeted with nazi salutes
A Green Party rally in Hastings, addressed by party leader Zack Polanski, who is Jewish, was disrupted by several men…
Holocaust
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The resistance heroes who stopped a train to Auschwitz
On this day in 1943, for the only time anywhere in Europe during the Holocaust, members of the Belgian resistance…
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Remembering Budapest’s Jews slaughtered on the banks of the Danube
Each April, at this time, Budapest confronts one of the darkest chapters in its history: the mass murder of Jews…
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UK-linked Holocaust denier defies french court
One of the world’s most notorious Holocaust deniers – well known to UK nazis and revisionists – was last week…
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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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Where’s Kenny? The curious disappearance of Britain’s ‘sensible’ fascist
Some British fascists (though far fewer than in past years) are putting out election leaflets for their tiny numbers of local council candidates, and making sure they advertise their activism on social media. Others are jetting round Europe to “Remigration”…
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Oxford Union rolls out red carpet for Tommy Robinson – in secret
The Oxford Union has secretly booked Tommy Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) to speak at a debate on Islam on…
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Danny Tommo held under Terrorism Act
It seems that Danny Tommo has been detained at Heathrow Airport under the Terrorism Act. This is according to a…
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Fascists banned from Mussolini shrine – and Griffin nowhere to be seen
The neo-fascist rally in Mussolini’s home town last weekend, which was to have featured Nick Griffin as a speaker, was…
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Far-right US soldier wanted to ‘kill every Jew’
A serving US Army infantryman has been charged with making terrorist threats after allegedly telling a Discord chat group that…
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Britain First boots out nazis but welcomes terrorist boss
At Britain First’s recent Manchester demonstration, leader Paul Golding made a conspicuous show of policing the optics. But it was…
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Neo-nazi caught in MI5 sting convicted of terror offences
Alfie Coleman, the Essex neo-nazi whose first trial at the Old Bailey ended without a verdict, has been convicted of…
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Carnival against the Nazis: Victoria Park, April 1978
On 30 April 1978, the Anti-Nazi League and Rock Against Racism pulled off something that British anti-fascism had never managed…
Today's top ten most read articles
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Britain First boots out nazis but welcomes terrorist boss
At Britain First’s recent Manchester demonstration, leader Paul Golding made a conspicuous show of policing the optics. But it was…
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Neo-nazi caught in MI5 sting convicted of terror offences
Alfie Coleman, the Essex neo-nazi whose first trial at the Old Bailey ended without a verdict, has been convicted of…
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Carnival against the Nazis: Victoria Park, April 1978
On 30 April 1978, the Anti-Nazi League and Rock Against Racism pulled off something that British anti-fascism had never managed…
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Two stabbed in latest London antisemitic attack
Two Jewish men are in hospital after a knife attack in Golders Green, north London this morning, the latest in…
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George Galloway’s Workers Party joins nazi-linked UNN for Ukrainian Embassy stunt
George Galloway’s Workers Party of Britain has once again demonstrated its willingness to climb into bed with far-right extremists. Along…
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Kent’s racist dregs line up behind Restore Britain
Harry Hilden’s post-St George’s Day march in Maidstone went ahead as planned on Saturday, with a turnout estimated at around…
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Vienna ‘church choir’ nazi guilty of hundreds of offences gets off with suspended sentence
A Vienna court last month handed a suspended sentence to a man found guilty of hundreds of neo-nazi offences, along…
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Dover calling: Kent far right’s travelling circus pitching up again (twice)
Dover is once again being lined up as a stage for the far right, with two rival demonstrations called for…
