Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] setting out the tributaries that connect, say, the National League for Clean Government with Pemberton-Billing, Page Croft and Beamish through to Mosley, the National Front and the BNP has yet to be written. Perhaps a full account isn’t possible – after all these people don’t exactly leave minutes of their meetings for posterity. Note […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] appeared in late October. It includes: long essays by O’Hara on MI5 (after Shayler etc) and the hanky-panky in Leeds over the last few years between the BNP, AFA et al; Robin Whittaker on ‘A Method of Inducing Mind Disturbance in Targets Practicised by the British “Permanent Government”‘, an attempt to systematise what is […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] of its first appearance, dismissing it because one of the many leads Pepper turned up was a Sid Carthew who, unbeknown to be Pepper, is a former BNP member. Cohen used the syllogism first used by Searchlight: Carthew is a fascist therefore Carthew is not reliable; Pepper quoted Carthew therefore the book is not […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] 1988/9 ….the work involved my joining the British National Party and meeting some very dangerous individuals. Within weeks of moving to London I was working at the BNP headquarters where I had access to the names and addresses of hundreds of fascist activists and sympathisers. These were passed onto the Searchlight team. In addition, […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] Eye 3, p. 5) was about the agent provocateur Tim Hepple who worked on behalf of Searchlight and was, according to them, meant to be infiltrating the BNP. Hepple, however spent a lot of time infi-trating green and anarchist groups, urging them towards violence. The Hepple episode took place in the last 2-3 years […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] same time insisting that the Jewish conspiracy they exposed was undoubtedly real. (p. 222) In February 1967, the League merged with the then British National Party ( BNP) and the Racial Preservation Society (RPS) to form the National Front (NF). Chesterton was its founding chair and remained a leading figure up until 1970. He […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] they founded the British National Party, the Constitutional Research Association, the British League of Ex-Servicemen and Women, and the British People’s Party. In the case of the BNP, its leaders decided on a policy of deliberate camouflage. All mention of Fascism and National Socialism was banned, and while the party would still be anti-Jewish, […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] was alleged to have shouted ‘Britain first!’ during the attack.6 0 Britain First is the name of a minor far-right party formed by breakaway members of the BNP in 2011, and as it happens Clarke Rothwell, the chief eyewitness who claimed the killer shouted 59 60 ‘Britain first!’,6 1 has been named as a […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[PDF file]: […] the racist Lady Birdwood who reappears in the sixties and seventies. 27 Patriotic Party – see George Thayer, The British Political Fringe (London 1965) p. 61. The BNP reference is in Report on Fascist Organisations by Christopher J. Cowling in NCCL archives, DCL box 42, folder 10. 28 This emerged in the course of […]
