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Investigating, exposing fascists, racists & far right since 1975. Website: https://searchlightmagazine.com and at https://x.com/Searchlight_mag and https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586620263602
@searchlightmag.bsky.socialAfter repeated police seizures and expensive appeals to supporters, the consequences of Paul Golding’s childish antics with the Britain First ‘battle bus’ may finally be catching up with him.
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@searchlightmag.bsky.socialA 29-year-old neo-nazi has been jailed for 20 years for orchestrating an international network of child sexual exploitation, torture and blackmail involving victims from Britain, Europe and America.
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@searchlightmag.bsky.socialFar-right influencer and all-round general nuisance Young Bob is furious that police visited his family home looking for him.
He insists he doesn’t even live there. Fortunately, the mystery has a rather straightforward explanation.
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@searchlightmag.bsky.socialUkraine’s president joined representatives of Germany and Israel this week to commemorate one of the Holocaust’s worst atrocities, when Nazi death squads murdered more than 33,000 Jews in just two days.
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@searchlightmag.bsky.socialA Cancer Research UK fundraising walk in Bristol involving 2,000 people had to be called off when far-right activists refused to move their 'flash rally'.
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@searchlightmag.bsky.socialLast month Searchlight reported that Danny Tommo and his Patriot Platform bigots were being made welcome in a south London church. The Church of England’s official response to the far right in its pews is troublingly complacent. Read more here:
@searchlightmag.bsky.socialAlex ‘Robbo’ Robinson boasted that police would let him and his supporters march wherever he liked on Halloween.
Now Manchester’s self-styled patriot leader is blaming “lefties” and local communities for thwarting his plans.
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@searchlightmag.bsky.socialBeaten by the Monster Raving Loonies, UKIP nevertheless celebrated its 51 votes in the Holborn & St Pancras by election as a triumph.
Meanwhile, Reform and Restore Britain discovered the limits of their appeal in central London.
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@searchlightmag.bsky.socialAn alleged neo-nazi accused of leading an international online network that sexually exploited and tortured young girls has gone on trial in Paris, facing a possible life sentence.
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@searchlightmag.bsky.socialA South London Patriots activist and friend of Danny Tommo has mocked a woman’s alleged domestic assault injuries, accused her of lying and attacked her because Searchlight reported her claims.
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@searchlightmag.bsky.socialSteve Laws has spent five years bouncing between far-right parties, leaving a trail of feuds and wreckage behind him.
Now, increasingly isolated, he has hit upon a desperate new idea: resurrecting the National Front.
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@searchlightmag.bsky.socialAs Pauline Hanson’s One Nation mounts its biggest-ever Victorian election campaign, candidates have been cleaning up their social media histories.
Unfortunately for them, journalists got there first.
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@searchlightmag.bsky.socialPolice fired rubber bullets and arrested three far-right activists after neo-nazis attempted to attack a housing protest camp in the heart of Madrid.
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@searchlightmag.bsky.socialGosport’s anti-migrant protests have drawn together a colourful cast of south Hampshire extremists, from convicted hooligans and violent offenders to megaphone-wielding activists, some with unusually busy private lives.
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@searchlightmag.bsky.socialPatriotic Alternative says jailed nazi thug Phil Curson has “no previous convictions” and has given his family £2000. His previous convictions may be spent, but his earlier prison sentence for violent disorder and racially aggravated violence doesn’t go away. Read more here:
@searchlightmag.bsky.socialOne of Essex’s most prominent anti-migrant organisers says she suffered brain bruising and concussion following an alleged assault by a leading “patriot” activist.
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@searchlightmag.bsky.socialThe National Socialist Collective nazi unity project was “off the ground and running” this morning.
By teatime, White Vanguard was heading for the exit, complaining that nobody seemed to know what the organisation actually was.
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@searchlightmag.bsky.socialTo mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable St, we are reprinting an article by Steve Silver, with testimony from two men who were there, which first appeared in Searchlight in October 1996, on the 60th anniversary of the famous victory over Mosley. Read it here:
@searchlightmag.bsky.socialEnglish Defence League has-been Paul Pitt promised Dover “the most important demo you could ever attend”.
But few answered the call, and police quickly brought proceedings to an end.
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@searchlightmag.bsky.socialAryan Front has returned under a new name, just five months after arrests, raids and bail conditions forced the neo-nazi group to shut down.
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