During electoral shift, British fascists face repression

The Homeland Party (Homeland), which split from fascist group Patriotic Alternative (PA) in April 2023, is now registered with the Electoral Commission and able to contest elections in England, Scotland and Wales. Following their registration, Homeland claims to be the “fastest-growing and most vibrant” nationalist party in Britain. This is the first of a new generation of British fascists to successfully register a political party. PA have tried and failed seven times to register themselves and this failure was cited as a reason for the split.

Homeland is employing the “ladder strategy” which was devised for the National Front in 1987 and then employed by the British National Party (BNP) to great success in subsequent decades. By following this strategy the BNP were able to become the most successful British fascist project in electoral terms, winning just short of a million votes in 2009. Homeland encourages members to become parish councillors with a view to contesting council elections in the future. The party recently recruited former BNP South East regional organiser Roger Robertson, who is a sitting parish councillor in Hampshire. Robertson is Homeland’s sole candidate in the upcoming council elections.

PA’s Yorkshire regional organiser Sam Melia was jailed for two years at the start of March for producing racist stickers prior to joining PA. Melia is the husband of PA’s deputy leader Laura and the couple are expecting their second child who will be born while Melia is incarcerated. A crowdfunding drive for the couple has so far raised over £60,000 which they are using to support themselves and some of PA’s other prisoners. PA look set to be labelled as ‘extremists’ by the British government after being named in Parliament. PA could also face legal action over its whites-only Christmas campaign which only helped two families.

PA appears to have started doing monthly ‘flash demos’, where members from across the country gather for unannounced protests. In January, around 20 activists held a protest in Standish, Wigan. Both PA leaders attended the protest and gave speeches. In February, around 30 PA activists from around the UK returned to Cannock in the West Midlands for a protest, where they held speeches and distributed leaflets. In March PA held a protest in Leeds against the imprisonment of Sam Melia. PA described it as their “largest flash demo to date” and claimed it was attended by around 80 supporters.

Both Homeland and PA have had a busy start to the year, with members engaging in a range of activities such as leafleting, hiking and litter picking. Both groups celebrated the end of asylum seekers being housed at the Muthu Hotel in Erskine, Scotland.

At the start of May there are local elections taking place in many places. The British far right are standing only a handful of candidates. The British Democratic Party (British Democrats), which was set up following the demise of the BNP, has seven candidates. A British Democrats councillor, Christopher Bateman, was re-elected to Noakes Parish Council unopposed. Bateman is standing for Basildon Borough Council in May.

Former Generation Identity UK activist Nick Scanlon is far-right party Britain First’s (BF) candidate in London’s mayoral elections in May. Scanlon has previously flirted with involvement with PA. BF hopes to raise £25,000 to support Scanlon’s campaign for Mayor of London. In February BF held its Spring conference in Hinckley, Leicester, with speakers including Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson).

A Cardiff man was jailed for four years and eight months for terrorism offences after sharing extreme right-wing propaganda videos in January. Kristen Persen, 22, from Fairwater in Cardiff, had instructional books and manuals for the manufacture of firearms, explosives and detonators as well as white supremacist propaganda.

In March, a member of several violent neo-Nazi Telegram groups, Harry Parris, 22, from Bittaford in Devon, was jailed for two years and nine months after pleading guilty to encouraging terrorism and possessing documents likely to be useful to a person preparing acts of terrorism.

Vincent Charlton, 17, from Birtley, Gateshead, was sentenced to two years and four months in prison after pleading guilty to encouraging terrorism, possessing documents likely to be useful to a person preparing acts of terrorism and making and possessing indecent images of children. Charlton had promoted neo-Nazi Satanist group the Order of Nine Angles and claimed he was planning to blow up a school.

Making race hate crimes pay

The jailing of PA’s Yorkshire regional organiser Sam Melia for producing racist stickers has become a cause célèbre for the international Anglophone far-right and among “free speech” advocates. PA has established a narrative that Melia was jailed for producing stickers with pro-white slogans like “White Lives Matter” and “It’s Okay to Be White”. This has let them portray Melia as a victim and helped to establish international support for the British neo-Nazi. Multibillionaire Elon Musk, who owns social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has expressed his surprise at the jail sentence on a couple of occasions.

The way PA have portrayed Melia’s incarceration has helped them to raise over £60,000 on the American Christian crowdfunding website GiveSendGo. PA has used the website to host financial appeals for some of the other prisoners they are supporting. Melia’s wife Laura has appeared as a guest on Alex Jones’ InfoWars show to promote the case. Melia has received support from the Irish far-right, with Keith O’Brien (aka Keith Woods), Gavin Lowbridge and Philip Dwyer all expressing support for Melia online.

PA leader Mark Collett had a familiar series of guests on his livestreams during the start of 2024. In January, Australian neo-Nazi Blair Cottrell was a guest on Patriotic Weekly Review PWR), the following week Swedish fascist Henrik Palmgren from Red Ice was the guest. Chicago-based fascist ‘Thomas777’ appeared a week later, who was followed by American fascist Warren Balogh and then Syrian Australian conspiracy theorist Maram Susli (aka Syrian Girl). Cottrell, Palmgren, Balogh and Susli have all appeared on PWR before.

Also in January, Collet interviewed KvltGames, far-right video games creators from Germany about their “anti-woke” game The Great Rebellion, which has been banned by Steam. PA’s book club reviewed a recent book by Marcus Follin (aka The Golden One).

Collet used familiar guests in February as well. American neo-Nazi Joseph Jordan (aka Eric Striker), American anti-Semite Kevin MacDonald, American anti-Semitic propagandist Adam Green. Collett was again joined by the Port Film Co-op from Port Adelaide, South Australia for a film review and PA reviewed former KKK leader David Duke’s book, with Duke a guest.

In March, Collett’s PWR guests were  Michael Peinovich (aka Mike Enoch) from The Right Stuff and National Justice Party, American anti-Semite Tim Murdock, Canadian far-right activist Jeremy MacKenzie (aka Raging Dissident) and American fascist Warren Balogh.

French far-right party Rassemblement National are encouraging French citizens based in the UK to vote in the upcoming European elections and are calling for volunteers to attend polling stations on behalf of the party. Over 160,000 French citizens live in the UK.

Homeland’s International Relations Officer is Czech-born fascist Martin Kuziel. Kuziel is a former West Midlands regional organiser for PA. Kuzial was pictured attending a Junge Nationalisten (JN) march in Dresden in February 2023.

Former Generation Identity UK activists visited the Identitarian housing project in Chemnitz to give a presentation about their new group Identity England. On the trip was Britain First’s candidate for London mayor Nick Scanlon and Charlie Fox (aka Charlie Roberts).

Spanish neo-Nazi activist, Isabel Peralta, who writes for Heritage & Destiny (H&D) magazine, has been barred from travelling to the UK. In September 2023, Peralta was temporarily detained by the UK Border Force at Manchester Airport before she was eventually permitted to enter the country and speak at H&D‘s annual meeting in Preston. Then Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, was criticised following the decision. In March 2022, Peralta was detained at Frankfurt airport after her luggage was found to contain a swastika flag and a copy of Mein Kampf.

Notorious Holocaust denier David Irving is on his deathbed and requires “round-the-clock care” after falling ill in October last year. A post on X says Irving is “now unable to engage in his life’s work.” Irving is 85 years old and had previously maintained a schedule of speaking engagements to small audiences of anti-Semites. Irving was found by British courts to be a Holocaust denier after losing a libel case in 2000.

Migrant hotel protests continue.

Former footballer turned TV presenter Gary Lineker sparked controversy after comparing government policy towards refugees to Nazi Germany. This led to Lineker being taken off a flagship football show which prompted a walkout by fellow presenters.
Protests against hotels being used to house refugees continued in March, although smaller than in February, with the fascist party Patriotic Alternative (PA) again involved. A protest by PA in the Welsh town of Llantwit Major was heavily outnumbered by anti-fascist counter-protesters, and clashes on the fringes saw PA’s new West Midlands regional organiser Connor Marlow and an associate be punched by militant anti-fascists.
PA’s Scotland region organised another protest in Erskine outside Glasgow, as part of an ongoing campaign against a hotel there. The soap company run by PA’s Claire Ellis has received press attention in Scotland. Ellis is engaged to PA’s national administration officer Kenny Smith, the former head of administration for the British National Party.
There were a series of poorly attended far-right protests across the UK in March, including a protest at a Newquay hotel, protests against drag queen story hours in London, a protest in Wakefield, and a protest in Manchester. These all attracted anti-fascist counter-protests.
One of the biggest issues in the British far-right during March has been the trial of James Allchurch, aka Sven Longshanks from Pembrokeshire. Allchurch is behind Radio Albion, formerly known as Radio Aryan, and is a key activist in the fascist party PA. The trial culminated in Allchurch being found guilty of 10 counts of distributing racist and anti-Semitic content online. PA have been publicly supporting Allchurch, who attended their Welsh protest.
A 20-year-old man in Dunoon, Scotland, was arrested for distributing PA leaflets.
A 16-year-old teen from Yorkshire who idolized the Christchurch killer was found guilty of planning an attack on two mosques. Alan Madden, 65, from Port Sunlight in Wirral, pleaded guilty to posting videos online promoting the banned neo-Nazi terrorist group National Action. James Farrell, 32, from Priesthill, Glasgow, was jailed for two years and eight months for posting a replica machine gun tutorial in a group chat for far-right group Oaken Hearth.
Former private school pupil Oliver Riley, 19, from Watlington, Oxfordshire, who posted neo-Nazi and homophobic videos online, was given a community order avoiding jail.

PA celebrates years of online hate.

In March, PA leader Mark Collett’s weekly livestream Patriotic Weekly Review (PWR) marked 200 episodes with a four-hour long stream involving 30 guests from across the international far-right. Guests included Lana Lokteff and Henrik Palmgren from Red Ice TV, Andreas Johnansonfrom the Nordic Resistance Movement, Québécois white nationalist Jean-François Gariépy, neo-Nazi academic Kevin MacDonald, Australian neo-Nazi Blair Cottrell, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, National Justice Party (NJP) leader Mike Peinovich and several other leading figures from PA and the US-based NJP.
During the stream, British neo-Nazi Ryan Williams aka Nativist Concern, revealed he has been travelling around Eastern Europe making connections with other fascists. Williams was one of the hosts of the British neo-Nazi podcast The Absolute State of Britain, which was published by The Right Stuff, the podcast network which has become the NJP.
When asked what he had been doing, Williams said: “Well, I’ve been in Eastern Europe a lot. Basically wife hunting, sort of gave up on achieving our natal goals in the UK. But yeah, it’s been good just running my Telegram page, making money, doing my training and making a few different friends, meeting some different nationalists.”
The Daily Mirror wrote about PA’s excessive use of Google’s video streaming website YouTube, which learned PA has at least 3,200 subscribers over five YouTube channels. The Sun wrote about YouTube still broadcasting racist songs, which inspired Anders Breivik.
Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan was banned from the UK after threatening to burn the Quran at a protest in Wakefield, Yorkshire.
A study by the UN-backed Tech Against Terrorism project found that the UK far-right launched a wave of transphobic hate following the Nashville shootings.
British anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull aka Posie Parker, went on a controversial Australasian tour. At her event in Melbourne, Keen-Minshull was supported by neo-Nazis.
Far-right news sites have been radicalizing American Republican politicians, according to research from the London School of Economics.

Anti-migrant hatred goes mainstream

Refugees in Britain are living in fear after a spate of protests outside hotels the government is forcing asylum seekers to live in while their claims for asylum are processed by a racist Home Office. In Knowsley, Liverpool, one of these protests turned into a riot in which a police van was set on fire and an angry mob attempted to force their way into the hotel.
Protests against ‘migrant hotels’ are not just being organised by far-right groups. The protest in Knowsley was organised by locals with large Instagram accounts after accusations a school girl had been approached for sex by a migrant had gone viral. With the exception of one notable local fascist, James Costello, from the fascist party Patriotic Alternative (PA), the turnout was largely members of the local community unconnected to any far-right groups.
A Facebook group called ‘Hotels Housing Illegals’ in which such protests were being organized was shut down by Facebook after reaching 14,000 members. Anti-migrant hatred appears to have gone mainstream with a series of protests happening across Britain in February and set to take place in early March. This comes at a time when the Conservative government and Labour Party are stoking such hatred, cheered on by the media, by claiming they will stop migrants from crossing the English Channel ‘illegally’ in small boats.
Fascist party PA was falsely accused of organising the anti-migrant riot in Knowsley and has received substantial amounts of press attention since the riot. PA has attempted to capitalise on this by ramping up its street activity and calling a series of protests. PA leader Collett took responsibility for organising a protest in Skegness, which they claim was their largest protest ever. In Scotland, the PA region attempted to hijack a campaign by locals in Erskine on the outskirts of Glasgow. The West Midlands PA region was active in Cannock.
This has led to an increase in the calls for PA to be prescribed as a terrorist group and comes as PA’s national fitness officer Kristopher Kearney aka Charlie Big Potatoes pled guilty to two counts of disseminating terrorist documents, including the manifestos of several far-right killers. PA has attempted to downplay this. Kearney is awaiting sentencing.
A secretive organisation in the House of Lords called the New Issues Group (NIG) has been exposed by the anti-racist charity Hope Not Hate. For more than a decade, the NIG has been collaborating with far-right activists. The group includes former UKIP leader Malcolm Pearson and the Conservative former deputy speaker of the House of Lords, Baroness Cox.

Anglophone fascist alliances

New British fascist group Vanguard Britannia (VB) claimed to have ‘conducted Activism with [American fascist] Patriot Front Activists in London‘ in the middle of February. On their Telegram channel, VB posted photographs of both groups’ stickers on lamposts and a bollard in the centre of London and a picture of two pints. VB appears to be heavily influenced by Patriot Front.
In mid-February, PA leader Mark Collett had an American fascist called ‘James’ appear on his weekly live-stream as a representative of the White Papers Policy Institute (WPPI). The WPPI is publishing short notes on public policy on Telegram and a Substack page. It has recently published a series of posts reviewing the policies of PA and the National Justice Party (NJP) in the United States. During the stream, Collett revealed WPPI had been working with PA’s deputy leader Laura Melia. WPPI appears to be intending to become a transnational Anglophone fascist think tank and is already closely aligned with PA and NJP.
A week earlier, Collett’s live-stream guest was Joseph Jordan, aka Eric Striker, a founding member of the NJP and key member of The Right Stuff (TRS) podcasting network. The British podcast published by TRS, The Absolutely State of Britain (TASOB), was influential in establishing PA, and Collett was a frequent guest. Several leading figures in PA appeared on TASOB in the years it was being published, and it helped set the tone for PA’s anti-Semitism and extreme neo-Nazism. Kristopher Kearney was a host of TASOB before it stopped.
During the stream with Jordan, Collett claimed he had tried to speak at the NJP’s recent ‘mass meeting’ in Florida on 4 February 2023 but had been denied access to America. Collett claims he had flown to Mexico and spent a week trying to enter the USA from Tijuana.
At the start of February, Collett had American neo-Nazi Emily Youcis appear on the stream alongside PA’s deputy leader Melia. Youcis appeared on Collett’s stream in 2020. Towards the end of the month, Collett released a video on the Russian invasion of Ukraine titled: “UKRAINE – Jews Flee, Whites Die,” in which Collett accused the “Judeo-American state” of wanting to keep fighting “until the last white Ukrainian is dead.”
The NIG in the House of Lords was revealed when Pearson emailed 235 people instead of bcc’ing them. The email was sent to Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, and American anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller among others.
The anonymous British fascist known as ‘Morgoth’ spent part of February in Ireland and published a video about his trip on his YouTube channel which has 57k subscribers.
Turning Point UK (TPUK), the British version of the American hard-right campaign group Turning Point USA has started holding protests outside Drag Queen Story Hours. TPUK held a small protest outside a pub in southeast London at the end of February.

Targeting of ‘migrant hotels’ continues.

More people were referred to the British government’s counter-terror programs for far-right extremism than Islamist extremism for the second year running. The figures also revealed there had been a large rise in the number of men referred to such programs over the ‘women-hating incel ideology.’ Police now consider incels to be an ’emerging risk.’
Counter-terrorism police claim to be removing “a large amount” of homemade gun-making guides from the internet amid fears far-right extremists are producing 3D-printed guns.
Elliot Brown, 25, from Bath, has been jailed for three years and three months for sharing bomb-making instructions in a far-right group chat he was in with neo-Nazi terrorist Dean Morrice. Brown shared a video of his Alexa speaker reading out a recipe for the explosive thermite. Three days later, Morrice purchased chemicals that could be used to make thermite. Morrice was jailed for 18 years in June 2021.
Luca Benincasa, 20, from Cardiff, was jailed for nine years and three months after pleading guilty to terrorism offenses and possession of indecent images of children as young as four. Benincasa, who had instructions on bomb-making, was a recruiter and ‘prominent member’ of the banned neo-Nazi group Feuerkrieg Division, describing himself as the ‘UK cell leader.’
Fascist party Patriotic Alternative (PA) is the subject of a counter-terrorism strategy involving the Scottish Government, according to the investigative website The Ferret. PA held events across Britain during January, including one protest where they announced their plans to attend publicly in advance. Previously all PA’s protest appearances had been advertised internally to vetted members who have had to provide proof of identity and address.
In the middle of January, PA held a protest in Hull city center against recently reversed plans to house migrants in former student accommodation. Later in the month, PA attended another protest in Seacroft, Leeds, joined by activists from the North West Infidels, Yorkshire Patriots, and current and former members of the BNP and National Front.
PA has now made protesting against migrants being housed in hotels one of their top national priorities. In Colchester, PA held a protest outside a Holiday Inn Express, and another was held outside a hotel in Snowdonia. PA also continues to protest against Drag Queen Story Hours, an event in Salisbury that was disrupted by a PA protest.
PA has been distributing leaflets in areas where there are such hotels. In Bishop’s Stortford, this has promoted a police investigation into the leaflets distributed by PA. Plans to protest outside a hotel in Erskine, Glasgow, were announced by PA.
The leader of the Scottish Family Party has been criticized after being interviewed by PA’s Scotland regional organizer Simon Crane.
Eleanor Wiliams, 22, from Walney, Barrow-in-Furness, was found to have lied about being trafficked by an Asian grooming gang and made false rape allegations against a series of white men. These allegations had been the subject of far-right protests in the town.
Far-right party Britain First (BF) is to contest local elections in Dartford, Kent, in May. BF is set to hold a meeting in Southampton in February. Campaigners have written an open letter asking the venue to cancel the booking.
The British government’s proposed anti-strike laws have been described as ‘fascist’ by a union leader who claims they will ‘damage democracy’.

British fascists look to Ireland for inspiration.

British fascists strengthened their connections with the Irish far-right in January, as anti-immigration protests, which began in November 2022, continue to spread across Ireland. The Far Right Observatory (FRO) criticized the social media companies Meta and YouTube for failing to remove far-right content from their websites. “Instead of bigots shouting on a bar stool, Meta and YouTube are key tools in the ongoing spread of hate propaganda and violence,” FRO told The Times.
In December last year, two of the main organizers of the anti-immigration protests in Ireland, Phillip Dwyer and Mike Connell, appeared on a YouTube channel with PA activists Joe Butler, aka Joe Marsh, and Stephen Thompson, aka Chief Moody, according to The Phoenix magazine. The magazine also revealed that Derek Blighe from Cork has close ties to Collett. In the middle of January, Melissa O’Neill of the Irish Freedom Party appeared on Thompson’s YouTube channel.
During January, prominent Irish fascist Keith O’Brien, aka Keith Woods, appeared once again on PA leader Mark Collett’s weekly live stream. In the past, Collett has appeared on live streams with Limerick-based fascist Karl Cohalan, aka James Collins, Gearóid Murphy, and Philip Dwyer, according to research from Anti-Fascist Action Ireland. Murphy and struggling Irish musician Shane Mason aka Bleeding Holograms, have also appeared on live streams with British neo-Nazi James Owens according to the research.
Daniel Harris, 19, from Derbyshire, was sentenced to 11 and a half years in jail. Videos made by Harris were viewed by two far-right killers who went on to commit attacks in the US last year, Payton Gendron and Anderson Aldrich. Gendron killed ten people in Buffalo, New York. Aldrich is accused of killing five people at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado. One of Harris’ videos referred to Brendan Tarrant as “the Australian saint.”
American neo-Nazi and Atomwaffen founder Brandon Russell, along with his partner Sarah Clendaniel, have been arrested for plotting to wipe out Baltimore’s power grid. Russell was previously associated with British neo-Nazi and National Action founder Benjamin Raymond.
At the end of January, Angel Almeida, from Queens, New York, was charged with sexual exploitation of minors and possession of child porn. Reports claim Almedia is affiliated with the neo-Nazi Satanist cult Order of Nine Angles (O9A).
An investigation for Byline Times by the Citizens and il Fatto Quotidiano revealed how Catholic charity St George Education Trust (SGET) is being run by a former National Front member Michael Fishwick. SGET has promoted conspiracy theories and fundraised for a far-right Italian politician Roberto Fiore, a former trustee of the trust.
An article from Heritage & Destiny magazine, exposing an alleged Spanish anti-fascist spy, reveals that British fascist Michèle Renouf hosted the alleged spy on the weekend of 2-4 December 2022 at a small gathering at her second home in the German countryside, where fellow guests included “some well-known figures on the German national socialist scene.” Renouf previously organized similar events in Schwarzenborn, Hessen.
PA leader Collett is now back on Twitter following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the firm. Collett now has an account with an audience of over 50,000, which he had built up before he was banned. This is now the largest social media account associated with PA.
Through January, Collett was joined on his Patriotic Weekly Review Livestream by Swedish white nationalist YouTuber Marcus Follin, aka “The Golden One,” Californian anti-Semite Jon Minadeo Jr. from the Goyim Defense League, aka “Handsome Truth,” and American fascist Warren Balogh from the US-based National Justice Party.
PA’s national fitness officer Kristofer Kearney, who was extradited from Spain to Britain, has denied disseminating terrorist publications. Kearney’s trial is due to start in June.
Yorkshire PA activist Alek Yerbury, described as a ‘Hitler lookalike’ by a publication in Hull, has been revealed to be a former private schoolboy from Adelaide, Australia.
In early January, at least one PA member supported mass leafleting in Oxford to push conspiracy theories about low-traffic neighborhood proposals. This was covered by Canadian hard-right web broadcaster Rebel News, who was in attendance.
Former Rebel News host and reality TV contestant Katie Hopkins has announced plans to take her one-woman show to Blackpool and Blackburn in Lancashire.
Rasmus Paludan burning a Quran outside a Danish mosque has sparked protests by Muslims around the world. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, went to see one of these protests outside the Danish Embassy in central London.
The Spectator magazine has published a glowing review of Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s first 100 days in power, rejecting claims she is a neo-fascist. Far-right parties in Europe tend to be electorally successful when the issue of European integration matters to voters, more so than immigration, according to a new study.
Amazon has removed a handful of the Nazi items it sells, after being accused of ‘monetizing’ hate symbols. The UN has warned that parts of the internet are becoming `toxic waste dumps’ for hate. Former Smiths frontman Morrissey has denied being far right.

Far-right threat on the rise

In December, British MPs warned that the country’s armed forces and police are at risk of infiltration by far-right activists trying to acquire weapons. This comes as the number of self-initiated right-wing extremists in the UK who are being radicalized online is on the rise. The UK’s security services are also conducting a record number of investigations into potential terror threats following an upsurge in right-wing extremism, according to the i.
The rise in British far-right activity has also been reflected in the prison population, with the Home Office reporting an increase in the number of far-right extremist inmates. This trend is also seen in a study that found that most convicted terrorists were radicalized online.
The issue of migration has been a rallying point for far-right groups in the UK, with the use of inflammatory language to describe migrants coming in for criticism. The former counter-terror chief for the Metropolitan Police has described the Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s rhetoric on the topic as ‘incredibly unhelpful’ in tackling far-right extremism.
Despite the rhetoric, Braverman continues to place migrants who have crossed the channel in hotels around the country. Far-right activists have targeted these hotels for years, but we seem to be experiencing an upsurge in protests.
A Tory MP has pleaded with the Home Secretary to reconsider requisitioning a hotel in his constituency to house migrants amid fears it will spark violence from the far right.
Fascist party Patriotic Alternative (PA) held protests in various parts of the country through December, including in Barrow. PA has been joining protests against ‘migrant hotels’ and distributing ‘sickening’ leaflets in areas where there are such hotels, like Kettering.
In Scotland, members of the far-right group UK A Force for Good, which is supported by some former British National Party members, according to the Daily Record, laid flowers at the grave of Kriss Donald. Alleged Nazi sympathizer Darren Hurrel, 20 years old, of Douglasdale Street, Rigside, appeared in court accused of using threatening, abusive, and insulting words or behavior. Hurrel was chased by a mob of angry pupils outside Larkhall Academy in Lanarkshire. Hurrel has been connected to PA and the neo-Nazi group Highland Division.
A gig venue in Bathgate, West Lothian, may have to close after allegations it was set to host a two-day Blood & Honour event, its owners have claimed.
Neo-Nazi music producer Robert Talland and his two children have appeared in court accused of stirring up racial hatred through music. The children are also accused of inciting racial hatred by performing songs at a pub in Leeds.

Smashing the patriarchy

British-American misogynist influencer Andrew Tate, described as the “king of toxic masculinity,” was arrested in Romania on charges of human trafficking and rape. Tate was previously closely associated with former English Defence League leader Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (Tommy Robinson). Tate is linked to a number of other far-right figures.
Yaxley Lennon attended a second-division football match in Spain during December.
Alan Leggett, known as ‘Active Patriot’, held a Twitter Space to discuss protesting against migrant hotels, which was joined by British and Irish far-right figures, including Derek Blighe. PA’s Yorkshire regional organizer Sam Melia tried to join the space but couldn’t.
French Holocaust denier Vincent Reynouard was arrested in Fife, Scotland, while on the run. Anti-Semitic singer Alison Chabloz was a close associate of Reynouard.
Notorious far-right Chelsea hooligan Jason Marriner is now living in Thailand, where he has opened an English food shop.
Spanish fascist Isabel Peralta, who writes for the British Heritage and Destiny magazine, has been banned from entering Germany for life due to her extremist views.
During December, PA leader Mark Collett’s guests on his weekly Patriotic Weekly Review show included Michael “Enoch” Peinovich from the US-based fascist National Justice Party and The Right Stuff neo-Nazi podcast network, former Ku Klux Klan leader Dr. David Duke, French Canadian neo-Nazi Jean-François Gariépy and American anti-Semite Tim Murdock.
In Australia, neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell was found guilty of racially assaulting a security guard. Sewell was previously associated with British fascists around PA. Sewell appeared on a now-deleted podcast for PA supporters calling for the mass rape of public workers.
Neo-Nazi Russian militia Task Force Rusich has appealed for intelligence on Nato member states, according to Britain’s The Guardian newspaper.
Former Breitbart UK editor Raheem Kassam attended the New York Young Republican Club’s annual gala, which was attended by what the Southern Poverty Legal Center describes as “a collection of radical right figures including white nationalists and ultranationalist European leaders”.
In London, supporters of the French Rassemblement National party working in finance met at a restaurant in central London on 12 December.
More than 800 pieces of content promoting or celebrating far-right terrorism were found on 34 websites in a Europe-wide crackdown by the crime agency Europol involving 14 countries, including the UK.
A car bomb hoaxer who claims to have been inspired by Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik has become the first prisoner to be barred from release by the Justice Secretary.

Further far-right terror attacks expected

In the wake of last month’s racist firebombing in Dover, the UK expects future terror attacks from far-right extremists.
The head of MI5 warned that far-right extremists are radicalizing themselves online “from the comfort of their bedrooms” and acquiring weapons. The spy chief also said they had seen an increase in far-right attempts to buy “firearms in particular, whether illegally obtained, homemade or 3D-printed”.
The warning came the week after the UK’s independent reviewer of terrorism noted that older men are responsible for most successful extreme rightwing terrorist attacks. Security think tank Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) is investigating the British military and police over concerns about far-right radicalization.
Meghan Markle faced multiple threats to her life from the British far-right after marrying into the royal family, according to the Metropolitan Police’s former head of counter-terrorism.
The usage of the encrypted messaging app Telegram by the Scottish neo-Nazi group Highland Division was covered by the Daily Record. This came a week after a member of the group was caught putting up posters around Glasgow’s south side.
A Conservative Party councilor in Kent has resigned after anti-racist charity Hope Not Hate published pictures of them wearing fascist uniforms at far-right events. Andy Weatherhead, who represented Hythe West on Kent County Council, was revealed to have once been a senior officer for the fascist organization New British Union.
Fascist party Patriotic Alternative distributed hundreds of leaflets in North Wales complaining about a hotel being used to house asylum seekers.

Transnational teenage neo-Nazi terrorists

Teenager Daniel Harris from Glossop, Derbyshire, was found guilty of six terrorism offenses. The 19-year-old was found guilty of five counts of encouraging terrorism relating to his creation and uploading material to the internet between February 2021 and March 2022. He was also found guilty of one count of possessing material for terrorist purposes, a 3D printer, which he had tried to use to make parts of a firearm.
Harris now faces extradition to the United States as the material he published inspired Payton Gendron’s mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. Gendron was a regular player of the American video game Roblox, according to his Discord logs, according to an article about neo-Nazis using the game to recruit children in the Daily Star.
American rapper Kanye West’s promotion of the ‘White Lives Matter’ slogan and anti-Semitic outbursts have significantly increased his popularity among British neo-Nazis. West’s far-right turn was being supported by failed British journalist Milo Yiannopoulos. Yiannopoulos claims to have organized a dinner between former US president Donald Trump, West, and American alt-right livestreamer Nick Fuentes.
In May, PA leader Mark Collett produced a video offering advice to Fuentes, someone Collett has been keen to work with following his rise to prominence. Guests on Collett’s livestreams during November included Joseph Jordan, aka Eric Striker from the National Justice Party in the US, longtime Collett-collaborator Jason Kohne, and Australian neo-Nazi Blair Cottrell. American anti-Semite Kevin MacDonald appeared on a live stream with Collett and some other PA members to discuss his book The Culture of Critique.
Elon Musk’s purchase of the social media platform Twitter has led to numerous neo-Nazis who had been banned, returning to the site. From Britain, these include PA’s Yorkshire regional organizer Sam Melia and Heritage & Destiny (H&D) magazine, among others.
During November, H&D published an article celebrating the birthday of the prominent German Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck. The article included a short report about a banner drop celebrating Haverbeck, which was carried out in Madrid, in which H&D’s European correspondent Isabel Peralta participated.
Former English Defence Leader Stephen Yaxley Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, has been using ex-MI5 informer Peter Keeley, who once infiltrated the IRA, to conduct surveillance on his opponents, according to a book by Hope not Hate’s Nick Lowles.
A two-day far-right festival, set to include pro-Nazi Finnish band Mistreat, was canceled in Bathgate, West Lothian, following police involvement. According to Hope Not Hate this event was organized by the Blood & Honour network.
A 76-year-old letter from Hitler’s minister of foreign affairs, Joachim von Ribbentrop to former King Edward VIII, asking him to give evidence at the Nuremberg war trials in 1946, is going up for auction after being unearthed.
One of Britain’s ‘most prolific sperm donors,’ who has fathered 140 children, is a ‘proud fascist’. Clive Jones is reported to be a leading figure in the New British Union.