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Here’s a picture of Chris Mitchell (left), Young BNP organiser for Bedfordshire, who worked hard for the BNP’s 2007 Luton Borough Council election campaign:

Source: Three Counties Unity
And here’s Chris Brennan, a BNP candidate in those same elections:

Together, the pictures perfectly illustrate the BNP in private and the BNP’s ‘modernised’ image in public. Brennan has now [...]

The Economist reports:
His government espouses “21st-century socialism” and claims to stand for the working class. Yet Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s president, has never been a fan of his country’s trade unions. He portrays them as corrupt vestiges of a capitalist past and of the previous political order. Ever since he was first elected, in 1998, he [...]

In the wake of Alan Johnson’s call for the Jenkins Report [PDF of House of Commons research paper] to be revived, this article by Nick Cohen about the BNP is worth reading. He argues that some are using the BNP as a mechanism to prevent reform:
Griffin has fooled the occasional journalist, but the regular convictions [...]

Clive James, who has his detractors, is completely spot on in this A Point of View. Unfortunately, the transcript is not yet up.
UPDATE: It is now! The best bit:
since many western feminists are still convinced that the social stereotyping of the West is the product of fundamental flaws within liberal democracy itself, they have a [...]

This is a guest post by a Harry’s Place reader
On 19 May Elena Bonner gave a speech to the Oslo Freedom Forum.  Who, you might reasonably ask, is she? According to her biography, Bonner’s father and uncle were executed while her mother and aunt were exiled to labour camps during Stalin’s Great Purge. She subsequently [...]

Mrs Trellis spotted this selection of cushions in a shop window on Wigmore Street.

At the weekend Alan Johnson took advantage of the current political turmoil in UK politics and pushed the case for electoral reform. It is clearly the right time to have such a debate, which last saw the light of day a decade ago shortly after Labour came to power, coming as it does after a [...]

The BNP currently sells a CD entitled ‘The White Cliffs Of Dover’ via its Excalibur merchandising outfit:
Vera Lynn, Glen Miller and others produced the music by which the English-speaking world went to war from 1939 to 1945. Here, recaptured in re-mastered glory, are the songs the soldiers sang from the deserts of North Africa to [...]

I’ve posted these photos (of graves at Arlington National Cemetery) before. But since today is Memorial Day here in the US, and since the behavior depicted in the post below (not to mention the many nasty and bigoted comments) is so disheartening, I’m posting them again.

When I first posted about Ayman Taha in [...]

Cross-posted from Pro-British, Anti-Extremist

The Sun:
Thugs rampage through a town centre yesterday after a march to protest against Islamic extremism ended in violence.
A mob of 500 left the route of the march in Luton, Beds, stoned cops and attacked a young Asian man.
Banner-waving drunks, some disguised under balaclavas, trapped terrified Asian staff inside a restaurant.
Daily Mail:
Groups [...]