Nov 09
Last night saw the second installment of BBC4′s three part fly-on-wall series “The Year the Town Hall Shrank” entitled “Power”. It’s main focus was on the elections of 2011 and the demise of the BNP in Stoke-on-Trent described by Nick Griffin as its “Jewel in the Crown.” Yet by far the most powerful images of …
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Sep 28
A judge has spared former BNP councillor, Michael Coleman, from going to prison. Coleman, aged 45, who lives on Caverswall Road in Weston Coyney, had denied two counts of racially aggravated harassment relating to racist language used in two articles on his website between 8 August 2011 and 8 March 2012; but a jury found him guilty …
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Sep 13
Economic crisis and political complacency create a hothouse for racism, Daniel Trilling warns in a new book. Here he lists 10 dangerous misconceptions about the far right
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Sep 06
Michael Coleman, leader of the BNP in Stoke-on-Trent has claimed he is a victim of “political persecution”, Radio Stoke have reported, following his conviction for causing racially aggravated alarm, harassment and distress, in two blog posts he wrote on his website. The 42-year-old father of three now faces sentencing on 28 September 2012 where local anti-racist …
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Sep 05
Michael Coleman, leader of the British National Party (BNP) in Stoke-on-Trent, has been found guilty of racially-aggravated harassment. Sentencing will be on 28th September. No bail restrictions have been placed on him until then. The 46-year-old was reported to police by Labour Cllr Joy Garner, now running for Police Commissioner in Staffordshire, after two blogs he posted, …
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Aug 20
The BNP is in freefall but there is potential for one of its many rivals to move into the space it vacates
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Sep 16
Far-right ideas: Britains’s generation gap
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by eJay
September 16, 2012
Our research shows that anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim policies are much less likely to appeal to young people
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