[PDF file]: […] international imaginative communities of the far right is sometimes used in a way that airbrushes enormous geographical, historical and cultural differences. You can make comparisons between the BNP and Golden Dawn without reference to the social life of Mani, Orthodox Christianity and the cultural memory of Metaxas and Papadopoulos. But, if you do so, […]
[PDF file]: Ideas are not responsible for the people who believe them Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks Philip M. Coupland London: Routledge, 2016, £30, p/b David Sivier This is a sympathetic study of Jorian Jenks, one of the great pioneers of the modern Green movement and advocate of organic agriculture.1 He was also […]
[PDF file]: […] Cameron an overall majority. Historically the losers have been the smaller parties: Liberal Democrats, the SNP (until 2015), Plaid Cymru, the Greens, the SDP (1981-87), UKIP, the BNP and Respect. In the general elections of 2010 and 2015 these accounted between them for 31% and 30% of votes respectively. Had the 2015 House of […]
[PDF file]: […] absence. When he eventually surfaced, and was asked for an explanation he apologised and stated that he had been working undercover, for the security services, in the BNP. Nobody believed him. Well we wouldn’t, would we? And perhaps that’s the problem with too many people in UK politics today – so focussed on day […]
[PDF file]: […] seriously diminished vote; the Conservatives had (finally) made some gains; the Liberal Democrats had advanced further; support for the SNP, Plaid Cymru, UKIP, the Green Party, the BNP and Respect had grown; and for the second successive election the largest bloc within the electorate was those who didn’t vote at all. Anyone with experience […]
[…] that the civilised, decent middle class liberals who ran the corporation genuinely believed that the Eurorealists were a bunch of deranged xenophobes, one step up from the BNP, and therefore their arguments should be discounted. I realise that covert plot or otherwise the result was the same – a heavy pro-Euro bias, and so […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] leader, letting the borough go to wrack and ruin. McSweeney was an effective organiser who went on to work for the likes of Margaret Hodge, combating the BNP in Barking. He went on to organise Labour Together, which worked hard to end the then leadership of Jeremy Corbyn whilst, as Get In suggests, pretending […]
[PDF file]: […] The New Antisemitism, which condemned anti-Zionism as ‘Jew-hatred by other linguistic means’. He goes on to compare the far left with the neo-fascist British National Party ( BNP) as far as their ‘hatred of Israel’ is concerned and for their use of Zionism and Zionist as ‘preferred code for Jews and Jewishness’.2 MacShane was […]
