There are the usual smears on the far right, ie anyone slightly to the right of Leon Trotsky, pages 7-9 in particular. On page 8, Adrian Davies gets a mention, a genuinely nice guy who once acted for me personally pro bono.
On page 14, the reader is told a debate between Nick Griffin and a Liberal Democrat MP at Cambridge was called off because of the actions of anti-racist students (read thugs).
There is a short but very interesting report on page 15 which says Greater Manchester Police took out an injunction to prevent Oldham BNP from distributing further copies of a video about the 2001 Oldham riots. This is somewhat surprising as the police were among the first if not the very first people to be attacked when the riots started. At any rate, YouTube came along in February 2005, and as the saying goes, the rest is history.
On pages 16-7, Gable contributes an article in his News from the sewers column (read Jews from the sewers), which includes a smear on the music journalist Garry Bushell. A decade and more earlier, this sort of wreckless talk cost Gable a grand plus legal costs, so he was skating on thin ice here.
Pages 18-21 contains an off-beat article by Paul Crofts and Anjona Roy about Hindu fundamentalism, apparently Hindus are now a race or consider themselves to be one.
Pages 22-3 contain book reviews by Dave Renton and Kate Taylor.
Finally, there are several pages of international reports from the USA (by Zeskind) to Russia followed by a free book offer on the back page.
February 2003: INTERNATIONAL Searchlight issue 331 is priced £2.50 and runs to 36 pages.
Pages 6-9 is a big article by Silver about what he calls the anti-imperialism of fools, a classic cultural reference. This is about the rising opposition to Zionism including and especially by Moslems in the West. Who invited these people in, Steve? Who framed the laws that put them above criticism? The Kosher chickens have come home to roost big time, and twenty years later, in particular on October 8, 2023, many Jews realised just how big a mistake they had made when the extreme left and associated anti-imperialists came out to support the mass murderers of the previous day.
Page 12 sees the beginning of a long article by Gable on Joe Pearce who was once prominent in the Young National Front and a bona fide political prisoner. Pearce had by this time relocated to the United States where he had carved out a career as an academic in the literary field.
Page 22 is an interview of Bob Crow by Maureen Foster. Crow died in 2014 at just 52. Here is my obituary of him.
There are several pages of overseas reports and a full page advertisement for the Lowles book White Riot on the back page.
Selfish parents published in THE REGISTER – the debating section of the Times, February 26, 2003, page 32.
The eclectic Sonia Gable of Ilford, Essex, adds her voice to the current debate on schools. Apparently, she is an infant school governor.
May 2003: INTERNATIONAL Searchlight issue 335 is priced £2.50 and runs to 36 pages.
This issue is devoted largely to trashing the BNP due to the local elections scheduled for May 1. It includes a lengthy guide to so-called fascists standing in the elections.
The odd one is a four page article by Alfio Bernabei on Sylvia Pankhurst; it includes a full page photograph of the lady in question.
There are several overeseas reports as usual.
June 2003: INTERNATIONAL Searchlight issue 336 is priced £2.50 and runs to 36 pages.
This issue is devoted overwhelmingly to the local elections the previous month.
Pages 18-20 includes what appear to be the complete results from around the country for the British National Party, Freedom Party, National Front and Third Way.
On page 25, Maureen Foster interviews the new leader of the GMB. Kevin Curran said he believed unions should have the power to expel fascists; notice they never say the same thing about communists. Fortunately, in 2007 he left the trade union movement to become a tree surgeon. The reason for this appears to have been a vote-rigging scandal two years previously.
There are several pages of overseas reports while on page 35 is a full page advertisement for back numbers of this hate sheet.
July 2003: INTERNATIONAL Searchlight issue 337 is priced £2.50 and runs to 36 pages.
The front page pronounces BNP kicked off riots; the story by Lowles on pages 4-7 blames the British National Party for the May 2001 violence in Oldham. This is complete nonsense. To take just one example, on May 28, the headquarters of the Oldham Evening Chronicle was firebombed by Asian rioters. How precisely was the BNP responsible for that, how did the Party incite it?
Page 9 contains a column relating to election news and a review/advertisement for The Terrorist Next Door which Searchlight was flogging; here is its website – caveat emptor.
Page 11 uses Gable’s favourite word – links. A BNP candidate is said to be linked to the man who bombed the Atlanta Olympics in July 1996. In 2005, Eric Rudolph would plead guilty to multiple terrorist offences and will spend the rest of his life in a supermax prison. His connection with a BNP activist in Southend can only be tenuous, to say the least. Perhaps they both drink milk?
Pages 12-3 is an interview by Daphne Liddle, whose name had not appeared in the magazine for a long time although she may have had photographs published therein, including, probably, the one of daffy Doreen Lawrence which appears here on page 13.
Pages 14-5 is an article by Dave Renton: Are all asylum seekers bogus? The short answer is only most of them. High on the list of countries given here is liberated Zimbabwe. When then Rhodesia was ruled by a handful of whites, this was a non-issue, but since the nation was ceded to the terrorist Robert Mugabe, people, most of them black, have been fleeing in droves. The big question is why do so many people from Africa and other places seek asylum in the UK? The easy answer is because we are a soft touch.
Other articles include one on art and fascism; there are several international reports including one from Columbia.
August 2003: INTERNATIONAL Searchlight issue 338 is priced £2.50 and runs to 36 pages.
The Editorial on page 3 is about the expulsion of John Tyndall from the British National Party; an article by Lowles on pages 8-9 covers this in-depth, and he suggests that Griffin will have an uphill task. Time proved this not to be the case, especially as Tyndall would die less than two years later at the age of 71.
Gable vents his hatred for the BNP on pages 12-3 while his News from the sewers column on page 15 celebrates the death of Sid Carthew, who had been a regional organiser for the BNP.
There are sundry reports from (misguided) trade unionists and a number from overseas including an open letter from regular contributor Alfio Bernabei to Denis McShane, then Minister for Europe.
September 2003: INTERNATIONAL Searchlight issue 339 is priced £2.50 and runs to 36 pages.
This issue has a heavy emphasis on trade union dupes who contribute several articles but the first report is by Lowles, from a BNP festival which he attended, apparently under a pseudonym because his name was called out.
On page 6, someone called Terry McKay reports from Kirklees on the BNP winning a council seat.
Page 7 contains another article by Lowles, this time on the expulsion of John Tyndall from the BNP.
Over the page is yet another article by Lowles, this time on an outfit called the WNP. This is the White Nationalist Party which was formed in May 2002 by Eddy Morrison and Kevin Watmough. I’ve met both these men. Morrison died in 2020.
Page 9 is the only (signed) contribution to this issue by Gable, his News from the sewers column in which he accuses Colin Jordan of plunging the depths, looking back to the 1960s synagogue arsons, claiming CJ had advanced knowledge of at least one of the attacks. The only person who was plumbing the depths here is Gable with this lie, and a lie he has told about this campaign many times elsewhere. The reader is referred to this pamphlet and this speech for the truth. He also claims the WNP is two years old; May 2002 was not two years ago at this time, but over the years we have seen far worse examples of Jewish arithmetic.
Over the page, the death is reported of Lady Diana Mosley. This is followed by two articles from trade unionist Maureen Foster and another from Stella Guy. There are articles by Tim Lezard, Bill Connor, Tricia Dawson, Chilean exile Sergio Requena-Rueda, Mark Serwotka, Clare Williams, Rehana Azam, Mick Rix, John Swift, and Paul Mackney, which leaves only 6 pages for international reports.
October 2003: INTERNATIONAL Searchlight issue 340 is priced £2.50 and runs to 36 pages.
Page 4 is an article by Eddie Tucker about recent BNP successes in Essex.
Page 5 includes a brief report on the Great Tosspot Trial, full details of which can be found on my main website.
On page 6, Lowles reports on a happier event, the BNP apparently descending into chaos at the other end of the country, Burnley.
There are contributions by other non-members including trade unionist Maureen Foster and Marika Sherwood – an accredited historian who has a wild imagination.
Page 10 is a photo tribute to Mike Cohen on the first anniversary of his death.
Pages 18-20 is another article by Lowles, predictably on the BNP.
There are the usual overseas reports including a poorly written article by Mike Reynolds on inter alia the execution of Paul Jennings Hill for the 1994 murder of an abortion doctor and his bodyguard in Florida.
November 2003: INTERNATIONAL Searchlight issue 341 is priced £2.50 and runs to 36 pages.
The front page story is said to be a big exposé of Redwatch alluded to as a Nazi hatesite (one word). The relevant unsigned article appears on pages 6-8 while page 9 features Gable’s favourite word LINKED which includes a number of BNP members. The Editorial on page 2 calls for the authorities to pull the plug on it. What is conveniently forgotten by the Gable gang is that these sort of tactics were pioneered (in Britain at any rate) by Forewarned Against Fascism, which was edited by Searchlight photographer Daphne Liddle.
On page 10, the odious Mike Whine (Michael Whine here) reports on what he calls the legal position of race hate on the Internet. This is said to be an extract from a paper he published. In case you were unaware, Whine is a long time hatemonger employed by the Board Of Deputies Of British Jews.
On page 12, an article by John Usher reports on a change in the law which allows trade unions to expel racists and fascists, read anyone who does not tow the line regarding race-mixing (or nowadays illegal immigration).
Pages 18-9 is an interview by Silver with Trevor Phillips. By 2015, Phillips had changed his tune on race significantly.
Page 20 contains a book review by Anna Sullivan.
There are several pages of overseas reports including one by Atkinson, apparently from Switzerland rather than Germany and one from Australia by Collins on Pauline Hanson.
December 2003: INTERNATIONAL Searchlight issue 342 is priced £2.50 and runs to 36 pages.
Page 14: NO END TO DEATHS IN CUSTODY by Renee Sams reports that more than 1,500 people have died in custody over the past thirty-four years, and of course she has to make a racial issue out of it. She claims the majority have been young black men. Really? The figure of 1,500 sounds really sinister until you realise it includes road accident victims, drug addicts, and all manner of non-suspicious deaths. The latest case given here is of Michael Lloyd Powell who went crazy (literally) on September 7, 2003. Things got a bit hairy after he smashed a police car window, something that beggars belief. Eventually, he was sprayed with CS gas and overpowered by no fewer than eight officers. An inquest into his death opened at Sutton Coldfield Town Hall on November 4, 2009 returning a narrative verdict the following month to the effect that he had died from positional asphyxia. A tragic death for certain, but by no means untypical.
On pages 16-7, Anna Sullivan reviews a collection of so-called anti-racist literature.
There are the usual overseas reports. Page 19 is selective advertisements of back numbers dating back twenty years, and the back page is an advert for eight of its so-called sister publications.
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