The schism on Britain’s hard right is no longer gossip; it is formal. Rupert Lowe, reportedly buoyed by encouragement from Elon Musk’s online ecosystem, has launched a rival to Reform. His one-MP outfit is called Restore. The launch, staged in Great Yarmouth, leaned heavily into hard-line rhetoric on immigration and “national restoration”: mass deportations, drastic … Read more
All summer long the press — along with a depressing number of commentators and politicians — warned of a “summer of violence,” supposedly echoing last year’s riots in British cities. At times their warnings felt less like reporting and more like an attempt to foment unrest themselves, an embrace of mob politics. The reality fell … Read more
(Tommy Robinson was previously know as Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, and possibly by other names) Tommy Robinson is currently locked up on remand under section 7 of the Terrorism Act, and faces other contempt of court charges. Last week he briefly held the number one spot in Amazon’s best selling books with his version of the … Read more