Searchlight
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Infiltrating a right wing plot to “smash” Searchlight – the inside story

Forty years on – the inside story of how we infiltrated a right wing plot to “smash” Searchlight Continue reading
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Oswald Mosley’s Dirty Secret

British fascism’s dirty secret – how BUF and Union Movement leader Oswald Mosley enabled child sex abuse at the highest level of his organisation. Continue reading
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Frene Ginwala (1932-2023): ANC legend and friend of Searchlight

My Searchlight obituary of veteran ANC activist, Frene Ginwala who worked closely with Searchlight in the 1980s Continue reading
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Maurice Ludmer: giant of the post war anti-fascist movement

Maurice Ludmer – a giant of the post war anti-racist, anti-fascist movement in postwar Britain, and the first editor of Searchlight magazine Continue reading
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Confronting the Combat 18 terror squad

How we exposed the activities of a violent neo-nazi terror group in Britain. Continue reading
About Me
I’ve been an active anti-fascist since 1974, working for Searchlight magazine from 1975 till 1989. From 1983 till 1989 I was its editor and co-wrote ‘The Other Face of Terror’, with Ray Hill, the celebrated Searchlight infiltrator into the European neo-Nazi movement. After that, and for the next 20 years, I worked as an investigative journalist with ITV’s World in Action and the BBC’s Panorama. I blog about the history and practice of anti-fascism, especially in the UK.