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Walk Away...: Is Farage Treading an Old Path to Oblivion?
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Because there's life after the far-right. Tuesday, 11 November 2014. Is Farage Treading an Old Path to Oblivion? GREATER LONDON COUNCIL ELECTIONS. When the general election of 1979 took place all of these facts eventually conspired to deliver the National Front a hammer blow from which it never recovered. An unwitting pincer movement by the combined forces of the anti-racist left and a dynamic new Conservative Party leadership drew the large majority of the NF's erstwhile voters away, and the age of ...
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Walk Away...: January 2013
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Because there's life after the far-right. Tuesday, 1 January 2013. Coming Face to Face With My National Front Past.Almost! 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, but also to provide some light amusement for those who find such things amusing. But the folk I remember most vividly were an assortment of left-wing types, not in the union militant or Rocking Ru...
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Walk Away...: November 2010
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Because there's life after the far-right. Tuesday, 23 November 2010. Tone down the shrill. 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 own reservations about Searchlight. More than once. These are to a large extent based upon my personal experience as a former fascist with a story to tell, who still finds himself on the receiving end of Searchlight. If extremi...
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Walk Away...: Un Francais - Seeing Racism from Within
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Because there's life after the far-right. Wednesday, 17 June 2015. Un Francais - Seeing Racism from Within. The film that takes on skinheads and the far right. A new French movie is causing ructions over claims that it is too incendiary for general release. The film is about a violent skinhead and the origins of France's far-right political movement. A film that shows the redemption of a racist thug: does it help us understand the true nature of racist thuggery? Or does it normalize racism? You can see t...
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Walk Away...: October 2014
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Because there's life after the far-right. Sunday, 12 October 2014. What It Really Means When You Like or Share Content from Britain First. 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 unanticipated impact of the no-make-up-selfie movement. Other than masters of social media manipulation, who are Britain First? None of the above facts play too well on social media though, s...
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Walk Away...: January 2011
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Because there's life after the far-right. Saturday, 22 January 2011. Support the Good Folk. 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 overlooking their anti-racist stance and pretending that any references to the same that emerged from their music and interviews meant something different to what it actually said. And decide for yourself. Links to this post. Having ...
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Walk Away...: November 2014
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Because there's life after the far-right. Tuesday, 25 November 2014. Can We Love the '70s and Still Outgrow its Attitudes? 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 fun and sparkly about that unique period in our recent cultural history. Jokes of a racial and homophobic nature were for a very long time at the root of much if not most of our comedy. Along ...
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Walk Away...: December 2011
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Because there's life after the far-right. Thursday, 22 December 2011. The Demise of the BNP and the New Challenges it Brings. Indeed it appeared even back then that some of the personalities the BFP did possess were of the destructive variety and were primed to bring embarrassment to the new party at any moment of their choosing. The BNP continues to crumble under the weight of serious debt, poor votes and a massive decline in membership numbers. As it does so sundry factions squabble over the corpse...
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Walk Away...: From Lower Down You Just Seemed So Much Better
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Because there's life after the far-right. Monday, 23 December 2013. From Lower Down You Just Seemed So Much Better. 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 I watched a video on YouTube of one of my mentors of old pontificating about the threat that apparently exists to all mankind from the forces of "World Jewry". Martin Webster was the de facto. There is a popular sayi...