From this, to this, to this, it is all falling apart on what seemed until very recently to be Britain’s insurgent Right. Daniel Thomas marched on the Daily Mail at the head of a band of men who were as fat as I was and, even behind the masks, clearly almost as old. Before the television cameras, he assured them that they would be paid, although they obviously had no jobs to go to. The whole thing was hilarious.
Still, “Hurrah for the Blackshirts!” no more. At least, not from the Mail. But the Blackshirts can decide who got to dock at Dover, where they marched with the Police in a single formation to close the Port, and at Portsmouth, where they assaulted and injured the Police without a single arrest’s being made. On top of hating the King, they have declared war on the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
The restrictions that James Orr’s compound is alleged to breach would have been laughed out or met with bemusement even at Durham back in the day, never mind at Cambridge. No such strictures existed when most undergraduates were not possessed of the age of majority. How do Oxbridge authorities think that colleges originated? But Orr is finished in Britain, as Paul Knaggs writes:
The Metropolitan Police confirmed on Tuesday that Reform UK is now the subject of a criminal investigation over allegations it broke foreign funding law. Detectives said potential offences under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 are under scrutiny, and that the new material is being folded into an existing inquiry already being run by the force’s Special Enquiry Team.
The trigger was a Channel 4 News broadcast last Thursday. An undercover reporter, posing as the British son of a wealthy American, recorded senior Reform figures discussing how to get money into the party from abroad. UK electoral law only permits donations from a registered UK voter or a UK-registered company.
In the footage, Dan Jukes, then Nigel Farage’s chief of staff, can be heard suggesting a £500,000 donation from the reporter’s fictional father could simply be recorded in the son’s name. James Orr, Reform’s head of policy, separately proposed that the same donor pay for opinion polling to support a Reform campaign instead of donating outright. Farage was filmed at a lunch in Clacton where the arrangement was discussed with the fake donor. The £500,000 was never actually paid.
Both men left their posts within days. Jukes said he had “stepped back from politics in order to clear my name” while denying any wrongdoing. Orr told Sky News he would cooperate fully with Reform’s internal investigation. Farage dismissed his aide’s remarks as “loose pub talk” and said he had not been paying attention during the Clacton conversation.
This is not a standalone case. The Met is examining it alongside a pre-existing probe into donations from Fiona Cottrell, mother of long-standing Farage ally George Cottrell, and into a separate £1 million she paid in June 2024 to a company controlled by Reform deputy leader Richard Tice, half of which was then passed on to the party.
Reform said it “denies any wrongdoing and will fully cooperate with the investigation” and would not comment further while the case is live. Verbatim Investigations, the outfit behind the Channel 4 sting, said it would cooperate with police.
The political reaction was swift. Labour chair Bridget Phillipson said Farage “needs to wake up and realise the buck stops with him.” Liberal Democrat Cabinet Office spokeswoman Lisa Smart said “the stench of corruption around Reform’s inner circle was repellent” and called on every Reform MP to state whether their campaigns had benefited from foreign money. Green leader Zack Polanski said “Nigel Farage and Lee Anderson hoped they could pin all this on two senior advisers,” adding that Farage himself still had questions to answer over how much he knew.
Reform built its entire pitch on the claim that it answers to the ordinary voter and no one else. The Met now wants to know whose money has actually been paying for that promise.
Then again, is that all? Truly, this is still the land that answered the Russian Revolution with the Labour Party, the French Revolution with the Liberal Party, and the Reformation with the Church of England. From the cradle of the Reformation, Jörg Luyken writes:
For 13 years since its founding, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has been trying to present itself as a serious and viable choice for government. Its attempts to shed its association with neo-Nazis and overcome its “extremist” classification appear to have paid off following its victory in the Saxony-Anhalt elections. Now voters in the east German state will now be able to call upon a former Stasi agent, an alleged pagan worshipper and an ex-porn actor to represent their views in the state parliament. The colourful characters were among the 39 AfD deputies elected on Sunday, which left the party three seats short of a majority but in prime position to form the state government.
The AfD campaign was led by Ulrich Siegmund, its candidate for state governor, a smiling everyman who managed to captivate local voters with his meet-and-greet tactics. A former member of the centre-Right CDU, Mr Siegmund successfully pitched his party as an alternative for conservative voters who were fed up with the policies of Friedrich Merz’s stuttering federal government. But a number of unlikely politicians were among Mr Siegmund’s candidate list.
Frank-Ronald Bischoff, who won a constituency seat, has admitted to working as a senior Stasi officer. For 12 years, the 78-year-old worked covertly to subdue anti-communist protests in the dying days of the GDR and targeted citizens who applied to leave, according to local reports. When confronted about his role in the secret police in 2017, he told Bild: “I do not comment on questions regarding the Stasi. I faithfully and conscientiously fulfilled my duties according to the laws of the GDR.” Despite the AfD regularly accusing the CDU of enabling communism, Mr Bischoff comfortably won his constituency.
Two other candidates won their seats with majorities of over 40 per cent despite being under investigation by police for their alleged role in a banned racist sect. Simon Lansmann was victorious in the district of Salzwedel, where police previously prevented a pagan ritual from taking place at his dairy farm on the summer solstice. Attendees at the nocturnal event blew horns, carried torches and sang a Hitler Youth anthem, according to a report in Der Spiegel.
Police believe that the ritual was connected to Artgemeinschaft, a pagan sect that instructs its followers to breed only with members of the Germanic race. The sect was banned in 2023 over its similarities to Nazi ideology. In August, police raided Mr Lansmann’s home as part of searches of 15 properties across Germany. Investigators believe that the work of the sect has been continued in secret. Mr Lansmann has denied involvement and said that Nazi songs were not part of the “official programme” at the event. Sebastian Koch is also under investigation over the Artgemeinschaft meetings and was involved in a neo-Nazi fraternity when he was younger. The 39-year-old has described his previous links to the neo-Nazi scene as “a phase”, and has denied having any connection to the Artgemeinschaft sect.
Phillipp-Anders Rau, a convicted thief who was ejected from university for lying about the results of his school leaving exams, is also in the new cohort. He challenged the university’s decision by pleading that he was addicted to cocaine at the time of his application and was not in control of his actions. The 43-year-old was convicted of stealing 100 towels and large quantities of bed linen from a Munich hotel in 2009. Mr Rau, who attended Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago election party in 2024, has also admitted to involvement in porn films. Videos depict the politician engaged in sexual activities near a bank machine in the city of Magdeburg, and in a car on the autobahn. He has insisted he never made a financial profit from his pornographic activities.
When the party, as is likely, takes over the state interior ministry, it will also gain control of the intelligence agency that comes with it, and its classified information. In Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD was under surveillance by the intelligence services, allowing agents to recruit informants inside the party and tap its phone calls. Now the tables could be turned, with the AfD learning how it was targeted and the extent of Russian interference in Germany. State interior ministers are frantically discussing how they can cut Saxony-Anhalt off from classified information normally shared between states. “Placing control over security agencies in the hands of an anti-constitutional party with close ties to Russia poses a serious security risk,” said Andy Grote, an interior minister from Hamburg. Stephan Kramer, a Social Democrat who runs the state intelligence service in Thuringia, has demanded that Saxony-Anhalt only receives intelligence on a “need-to-know basis”.
Oh, well, when the alternative is this, or a breast-enhancing hypnotist, or the absolutely cake-icing fact that the ludicrous Socialism 2026 had broken a strike such that attendees had crossed a picket line, then we on the Left have only ourselves to blame. Thank goodness for the Proclaimers. And notice that everyone can define a woman when Mahant Swami Maharaj, Guru and President of the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, insists that she be removed from her workplace so that he might visit the Eiffel Tower.
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