2014-10-03 20:27
When I stumbled by chance yesterday evening upon an article on the BBC News website breaking the news that Nick Griffin had been expelled from membership of the British National Party… Read More
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2011-04-08 17:18
2011-01-22 02:25
I'm not a "folkie" by any stretch of the imagination, but I always had a soft spot for the Geordie folk-rock group Lindisfarne. Indulging this soft spot during my far-right days meant overl… Read More
2010-12-04 14:50
I see that in the light of the historic decision by a special elections court to strip erstwhile Labour MP Phil Woolas of his seat in Oldham East and Saddleworth on the grounds that he knowi… Read More
2010-11-23 01:51
The following message was sent out yesterday by Nick Lowles of HOPE Not Hate, an operation which is closely associated with the popular anti-fascist magazine Searchlight.I have expressed my… Read More
2010-11-06 11:10
Reproduced with acknowledgements to Minority Thought.The front page and main story of today's Daily Express is a clear and unsubtle attempt at maintaining the "us and them" mentality which… Read More
2010-10-19 13:33
Another blog's take on the British Freedom Party:Lancaster Unity: The British Freedom Party & Fluffy Fascism Read More
2010-10-14 23:52
A little over a month ago I commented upon the upheaval currently taking place within the British National Party (BNP), with party leader Nick Griffin finding himself being challenged for hi… Read More
2010-09-17 12:50
A call by a group of racist petitioners to introduce a publicly-funded White History Month has been rebuffed by the government.Responding to the petitioners the government wrote: "The Govern… Read More
2010-09-08 23:00
Somebody asked me today why I don't update this blog more frequently, and I do accept that I had been absent from duty for far too long prior to last night's posting.All the same I see my ro… Read More
2010-09-08 22:50
I've been watching with some interest the increasingly acrimonious spat that has been developing between current BNP Chairman Nick Griffin and his challenger in a recent leadership ballot, E… Read More
2010-03-20 13:15
The National Front is not an organisation that it is easy to feel sorry for, and so one has to laugh at the news that despite the racist party having waited 43 years for its first proper cou… Read More
2010-02-28 15:30
I spent a hugely constructive couple of hours yesterday (Saturday) afternoon at the Hounslow Community Centre as a guest at a workshop for young people organised by the MPower Hounslow Youth… Read More
2010-01-16 20:42
Acknowledegements to The GuardianReports of racial and religiously motivated crime rose following the election of British National party councillors in several far-right strongholds, police… Read More
2010-01-07 17:20
When thinking back, as I often do, to the fourteen and a bit years that I spent on the far-right, it sometimes occurs to me how different things might have been had I taken the time out to p… Read More
2009-12-22 02:03
I unearthed the following article from a Staffordshire publication called The Sentinel, via the excellent anti-fascist resource blog Lancaster Unity.As with the superb recent by-election vic… Read More
2009-11-02 15:29
A week or so ago I was contacted by Ed Saunt of the Hounslow Chronicle who wanted to write a piece about me and my former association with Nick Griffin, the Chairman of the British National… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The film that takes on skinheads and the far right By Hugh SchofieldA new French movie is causing ructions over claims that it is too incendiary for general release. The film is about a viol… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
It broke my heart when certain now universally-known facts first emerged about the 1970s glam superstar Gary Glitter. To those of us of a certain age Glitter personified everything that was… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
One of the few blessings that I have acquired in a lifetime of political interest and involvement is an exceptional long-term memory. No matter that I am more than capable of venturing out… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
On these pages we frequently take the time out to celebrate the genuinely positive things which come from social media, such as the force for good that was Stephen Sutton and the unanticipat… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
This line is from a track called All In All by Dexy’s Midnight Runners, from the group’s defining Too-Rye-Ay album recorded in 1982. It sprung oddly to mind a week or so ago as… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
This may seem a strange topic to choose for my first post of 2013, but I had a weird dream the other night which I want to consign to record, as much for my own sanity as for anything else… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
"Look mate, this is my country. "This is where I grew up, this is where I started life. This is my country and when I put on my Great Britain vest I’m proud. I’m very proud… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Some while ago I wrote on this blog about the emergence from the wreckage of the BNP of a grouplet calling itself the British Freedom Party and in particular about its professed creed of &ld&hell…Read More
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