Flaggers’ mask slips as fascists and nazis take centre stage Don’t call us fascists. We’re just ordinary folk worried about our women and kids.” It’s the familiar refrain from the groups of self-styled “patriots,” “anti-groomers,” and flag-wavers who have sprung up in towns across the country.

US bans Patriotic Alternative boss Mark Collett Britain may be OK with foreign fascists like American Jared Taylor swanning in to speak at nazi conferences. The US State Department is not so relaxed: they have banned Patriotic Alternative leader Mark Collett...

National Rebirth Party rolls out the latest retro-nazi fashion statement. After the ridicule, from both left and right, that greeted NRP leader Alek Yerbury’s aesthetic drift into a suspiciously Hitler-like appearance (toothbrush moustache, trench coat)...

Christian nationalism: a far-right religious ideology drifting across the Atlantic Mark Scholl looks at Christian nationalism - not so much a theological position, more a far-right political weapon finding its way to the UK from America. . Read more here. searchlightmagazine.com/2025/11/chri...

Patriotic Alternative comrades of jailed race hate nazi James Costello are in a panic over our recent article which may delay his early release from prison. Only hours after we published our piece, the name of Costello’s Telegram Channel...

One of America’s most notorious racists, Jared Taylor, is being allowed to travel around Europe and the UK unimpeded, even though he was banned from the entire Schengen area a few years ago. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/11/once...

How Reform’s ‘shop window’ council brought chaos to Kent When Reform UK swept to power at Kent County Council last May, the victory was heralded as a populist revolution. After decades of Conservative dominance, Reform’s party’s 57-seat majority promised a new era...

Convicted nazi James Costello is due to be released on license from prison this month. But his Telegram feed has promoted material which ought to give the prison service and the probation service second thoughts about his suitability to be let out early. Read about it here:

From the Searchlight Archive: 25 years ago, attendees at the annual Conservative Party conference were greeted by the sight of a Tory shadow minister sharing a platform with a leading far-right antisemite who claimed to speak for for Britain’s small businesses...

Former BNP leader Nick Griffin will be the star speaker at fascist pro-Putin fest in Madrid next month, organised by his old terrorist chum Roberto Fiore. Read more here searchlightmagazine.com/2025/11/nick...

Desecration – how my dad’s war is being stolen by the far right. Mark Scholl reflects on the obscenity of fascists hijacking Remembrance. Read it here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/11/dese...

Cambridge academic Dr James Orr has been appointed as Nigel Farage's special adviser. He brings a combination of academic respectability, ideological ambition, and access to international nationalist networks which makes makes his arrival in Reform UK significant. Read more here:

How the Steel City humiliated the UKIP clown show Further humiliation yesterday for UKIP leader Nick Tenconi, whose boast that UKIP would '"take back Sheffield from the leftists" ended in pathetic, abject failure. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/11/how-...

The Canadian far-right agitator targeting Ireland When anti-migrant rioting broke out in Dublin it wasn't long before Ezra Levant, the Canadian far-right streamer, agitator and friend of Tommy Robinson, parachuted in to help stir things up. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/11/the-...

Obituary: Searchlight remembers Sir Geoffrey Bindman (1933-2025), an extraordinary lawyer and a friend of Searchlight who has just died. searchlightmagazine.com/2025/11/obit...

Britain First have got their 'battle bus' back and are hailing it a “massive, massive victory” over Manchester police. It really isn't: in fact, they had to fork out thousands at a police auction to retrieve it from the consequences of their own stupidity. Read more here:

Artur Gold, a famous Jewish musician, was deported from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka death camp in 1942. There he was made to lead the Treblinka Orchestra, and was in the camp in 1943 when a prisoner uprising ensured that it would not be forgotten. searchlightmagazine.com/2025/11/artu...

Searchlight has argued before that the threat from far-right extremism in the UK now outstrips that coming from radical Islamists. Latest Home Office figures from the Prevent programme support that view. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/11/twic...

‘They’re eating the dogs!’ UKIP leader Nick Tenconi has plumbed the depths of idiocy, even by his own cretinous standards, posting online a video filmed in Calais in which he speculates that razor wire surrounding a dog training park is intended to protect animals from being eaten by migrants...

OTD in 1979, KKK and Nazi Party gunmen opened fire on an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, leaving five dead. Main organiser of the attack was Nazi Party leader Harold Covington who later helped set up Combat 18 in the UK. Read about it here: searchlightmagazine.com/2024/11/the-...

A potentially deadly blaze at at an Irish refugee centre on Friday was deliberately started by masked men who broke into the building, set the fire and tried to prevent residents from escaping. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/11/murd...

Farage, Reform and the ‘Russia question’ that won’t go away. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/fara...

Exeter College of further education has dumped its Vice Chair after he was seen marching with fascists in the city at the weekend. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/coll...

The anti-fascist whose camera was his gun: Steve Silver remembers the anti-fascist legend and Searchlight photographer, Mike Cohen searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/mike...

Fingers crossed...

It was a wet weekend for the Southport riot-inciter Danny Tommo, one of Tommy Robinson’s closest mates. After doing his level best to wind things up in Southampton he ended up soaked in urine and pepper sprayed by the police. Read about it here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/dann...

Unholy alliance as Reform UK in Exeter cosy up to Britain First Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/unho...

The Russian spy network that targeted Brexit Party MEPs When Anton Shekhovtsov, a Ukrainian researcher of Europe’s far right and a former Searchlight contributor, published his forensic 2021 study “The Niedźwiecki case: The Rise and Fall of a Polish Agent of the Kremlin Influence”,

The ego and the echo chamber: our full report on UKIP leader Nick ‘Taco’ Tenconi’s London flop - not so much a show of force, more a whimpering retreat. Read it here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/the-... searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/the-...

Another thoroughly embarrassing day for Nick 'Taco' Tenconi's UKIP in London. After boasting he would "reclaim Whitechapel from the Islamists" and being thoroughly relieved when the police banned him from going there, he rallied his troops in the more congenial setting of Knightsbridge instead.

Gemma Mattinson, the Pink Lady child abuser, is a liar. She has posted a sickening defence of her crimes, minimising the cruelty that she inflicted on small children and which got her jailed. But it's all lies. Read what really happened here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/the-...

What's left of the British National Party is at the centre of an entertaining row as a group of former members and activists mount a campaign to wrest control from current leader Adam Walker accusing him of corruption and fraud. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/bnp-...

Manchester Police have authorised the destruction of the Britain First 'battle bus'. BF leader Paul Golding is not happy. Read about it here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/poli...

European fascists are mourning the death of the last man to attempt an old-school fascist coup, Lt Col Antonio Tejero of the Spanish Civil Guard, who died this morning aged 93. Read about him here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/obit...

How a smirking Tommy Robinson, on a controversial visit to Israel, killed off any chance of Israeli football fans watching the Europa League game between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Aston Villa. Read about it here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/smir...

‘Disgrace’: Knesset Diaspora panel chair pans Minister for inviting Tommy Robinson to Israel www.timesofisrael.com/disgrace-kne...

UKIP will be marching in Central London on Saturday, following the ban on their hugely provocative rally in Whitechapel. UKIP leader Nick Tenconi has announced that because of "two-tier policing" they will march from the London Oratory on Brompton Rd, to Speakers Corner...

BREAKING: The Metropolitan Police have banned the provocative UKIP demonstration planned for Whitechapel on Saturday. A statement from the Met says the event is banned from Whitechapel and anywhere else in Tower Hamlets though they are ready to discuss alternative proposals from UKIP.

An Austrian army colonel and member of the country's General Staff, was held when armed police raided a far-right weapons exercise recently. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/aust...

Last month saw the launch, in St Petersburg, of an international axis bringing together far-right, neo-Nazi and ultra-nationalist movements from all over the world, under the banner of the International League of Anti-Globalist Paladins...

The elite funders behind Italy’s far-right CasaPound movement A covert network of high-profile financiers – including diplomats, academics, lawyers, military officials, and media figures – has been secretly funding Italy’s neo-fascist CasaPound movement. Read more here:

Remembering the nazi massacre at Kerdyllia On 17 October 1941 German troops arrived at the villages of Ano Kerdyllia and Kato Kerdyllia in northern Greece. They rounded up some 230 men, forced them to dig mass graves, shot them, and reduced the villages to ashes. Read more here:

From the Searchlight archive: On October 16, 1993, tens of thousands of anti-fascists demonstrated in Welling, south London, protesting against the presence of a British National Party ‘bookshop’ – in fact, the party’s national organising base...

The jailing of three nazis for terrorism offences throws a new spotlight on the activities of the neo-nazi British Movement. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/terr...

She is a prominent 'Pink Lady' campaigner claiming to be protecting kids from evil migrants. But Gemma Mattinson has a horrific record of child abuse. She's the 'Pink Lady' you could never trust with your kids... Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/the-...

The Traditional Britain Group, an umbrella group bringing together far-right conservatives and fascists or neo-nazis, held its annual conference last weekend. It was an unutterably tedious affair which not even the posh venue could relieve. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/trad...

Police in Manchester are holding onto Britain First's seized 'battle bus' and threatening to crush it. We can only hope... Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/poli...

UKIP’s annual conference attracts record breaking numbers – EIGHT! Britain's fastest shrinking political party hits new low. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/ukip...

Between another quick trip to the Algarve and his latest court appearance on Monday, Tommy Robinson has been the guest on a luxury train owned by billionaire right-wing benefactor Jeremy Hosking. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/tomm...

Great British National Protest organiser Richard Donaldson has announced that he is closing down the campaign's fundraisers. But did he fall or was he pushed? Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/grea...