The big lie
BBC NEWS | England | London | Murder claim politician faces ban The BBC reports that a London Assembly member from the British National Party may be banned from the council for six months...
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BBC NEWS | England | London | Murder claim politician faces ban The BBC reports that a London Assembly member from the British National Party may be banned from the council for six months...
Mark Steel: So has anyone really been ‘Islamified’ against their will? – Mark Steel, Commentators – The Independent Mark Steel tears into the ridiculous myths about the ‘Islamification of Europe’ peddled by some on...
Martin Sullivan at Islamophobia Watch on his ongoing debate with Edmund Standing, a contributor to Harry’s Place and author of a recent think tank report which plays up the BNP’s anti-Semitism and plays down...
Fear and Hatred on the Streets of Luton from the Sunday Times A very long and comprehensive article (you can also see it in four parts here: [1], [2], [3], [4]) on the unrest...
The rise of British racism may be horribly close — The Spectator Fraser Nelson goes “on the stump” (meaning, out knocking on doors) with BNP activists in Hertfordshire and discovers that people are no...
The story is starting to come out regarding the display of thuggery and bigotry in Luton last Sunday, in which a group of about 200 broke away from a bigger march and headed for...
The Sun today featured the story of a former British soldier whose image was featured in a British Nazi Party election leaflet, in uniform next to the words, “we’re fed up with being sent...
The Washington Independent » Civil War Raging in Right-Wing Blogosphere Or how the alliance between Little Green Footballs and its numerous offspring of mostly Christian (and sometimes Jewish), right-wing, anti-Muslim blogs have fallen out...
Moving on from health fascists to real fascists, the news yesterday told us that the entire membership list for the British National Party from 2007, complete with addresses and phone numbers, had been published...
Tomorrow, the UK House of Commons is to vote on an amendment to the employment bill, restoring the right of trade unions to refuse to admit, or to expel, British National Party members (more...
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Haider ‘was double speed limit’ Jörg Haider, the former leader of the so-called Freedom Party in Austria who died in a car crash on Saturday morning, was...
I'd just like to say well-done to all those who routed the racists and fascists in Cologne who wanted to whip up some hatred against the local Turkish and Muslim population. It seems that...
New Statesman – Letters My letter, regarding the portrayal of Croydon in Brendan O'Neill's article "What's Driving the BNP?" last Friday, got printed in this week's New Statesman. The letters pages seem only to...
Brendan O'Neill interviews the British Nazi Party trying to win hearts and minds in Stanmore (with all the Jews!) and runs into a chick from Croydon bleating about how out of place she is...
I've just got a message from CAIR that "Young Americans for Freedom", one of the groups who have sponsored one of the so-called Islamofascist Awareness events in the USA, at which Rick Santorum spoke...
Pickled Politics: Sayeeda Warsi and the BNP I thought someone would write a cogent reply to Sayeeda Warsi's interview in yesterday's Independent on Sunday, in which she claimed that the BNP have some legitimate...
Bath Chronicle: Yobs attack mosque in Bath Police have issued a CCTV image of two yobs who entered a mosque in Bath (England) on 11th July this year and urinated on worshippers’ belongings (strangely,...
This is England is a film about skinheads in the English Midlands in the early 1980s, written and directed by the British director Shane Meadows (interviewed here) and set mostly on a council estate which turns out to be in Nottingham, although no reference to Nottingham is actually made anywhere in the film; some scenes are shot in Grimsby, an east coast port and seaside resort. It mainly revolves around the character of Shaun, a 12-year-old boy who has recently lost his father in the Falklands war, and who is partly based on Meadows (and some of the other characters are also partly based on people Meadows knew).
There is a letter in the current edition of the Jewish Chronicle, the "establishment" paper of the British Jewish community, from Alan Goodacre defending the British National Party from this article by Melanie Phillips...
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Report says riots product of racist propaganda The Burnley race riots of 2001 were fuelled by racists exploiting the perceived imbalances in council spending on different communities, according...