January 2005: INTERNATIONAL Searchlight issue 355 is priced at £2.50 and runs to 36 pages.
Nick Griffin appears on the front page, the actual story is by Lowles and appears on pages 8-11; it is about the state of the BNP for the forthcoming year.
Pages 12-3 is about the state of the right in Britain, including Combat 18 and a number of other outfits – political parties and other.
Page 15 reports on the arrest of Griffin (for thought crime) and the expulsion of John Tyndall from the party he founded. This was his second expulsion; JT would die the following July, but for readers who want to know what he thought of the man who betrayed him, check out our correspondence on my main website.
Pages 18-9 is an interview by Paul Meszaros with Andy Sykes, said to have been an anti-fascist mole within Bradford BNP.
There is extensive reporting from overseas including by Atkinson in Germany and Zeskind in the States.
Trusts to avoid paying inheritance tax is a letter in the Times from Sonia Gable, January 21, 2005, page 14.
February 2005: INTERNATIONAL Searchlight issue 356 is priced at £2.50 and runs to 36 pages.
This issue is said to celebrate 30 years of hatemongering, although the Gable gang does not phrase it in those terms. The first issue of Searchlight magazine is dated February 1975; this is not to be confused with the original, short-lived Searchlight broadsheet. This pamphlet includes a brief discussion of the original Searchlight Organisation.
Page 6 is a rare contribution by photographer Daphne Liddle; in an article called Fascists insult bereaved family, she writes:
“The National Front had announced that it would march to the spot where a year ago a white youth died after a fight with a black man in a dispute that had begun on a bus over an umbrella.”
And of course, “anti-fascists” turned out to oppose them.
This is a remarkable story that flew under the radar, and is deserving of an in-depth discussion here. If nothing else, it shows the shocking double standard on anything related to race. The reader should compare it in the first instance with the murder of Stephen Lawrence. This case is even more shocking because the killer went free. Here is a local press report of the retrial. At the first trial of George Edwin, there was no mention of anything racial but by the time of the retrial, the defence was able to muddy the waters, due principally to far right groups daring to show their faces. This lowlife wasn’t even charged with carrying a knife, apparently a kitchen knife, this at a time when as now there was so much talk about knife crime.
Page 14 includes the front cover of the February 1975 issue; the following page is Searchlight the early years by Gerry Gable. He mentions the broadsheet from the 1960s (of which there were four issues); he also mentions Column 88, which he says was part of Gladio. LOL. The truth about Column 88 can be found here and here to begin with. Follow the links as desired.
Over the next few pages, there are sundry reports from the archives.
There are the usual overseas reports including one from Wim Haelsterman and Atkinson, an obituary for Hugo Gijsels, a journalist who died December 27, 2004 at the age of 54.
Page 35 is for ordering back issues illustrated with sundry front covers. The back page is an advert for Hope Not Hate t-shirts, not for the first time.
March 2005: INTERNATIONAL Searchlight issue 357 is priced at £2.50 and runs to 36 pages.
The front page features a large photograph of Robert Kilroy-Silk, and the lead (non)story is by Kate Taylor on pages 6-7.
Former labour MP Kilroy-Silk joined the UK Independence Party in 2004 and was elected to the European Parliament, but on January 30, 2005, announced he had quit. Three days later, Veritas was launched. The party was dissolved in June 2015.
Taylor and the Gable gang were clearly interested in this new party because it was opposed to large scale immigration.
Page 17 includes a report by Pauline Fraser on a talk given by Leon Greenman. Greenman, who died in 2008 at the age of 97, was the Gable gang’s very own Auschwitz survivor. It is truly amazing how many of these people lived to such a great age. Although an East End Jew, he spent much of his early life in the Netherlands where he was arrested in 1942 and sent to the mill of death. With such a pedigree, Greenman was an obvious (and willing) pawn for the ultra-left; Searchlight was far from the only outfit he fronted for.
On page 18, another article by Taylor claims Labour is getting tough on immigration. Two decades on, that claim rings ultra-hollow.
There are several overseas reports; pages 35 and 36 are on the same themes as the previous month.
Searchlight Magazine Limited Accounts for year ended December 31, 2005.
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