Matthew Collins
The Guardian
Prescott, AZ, United States
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There’s a new breed of young, violent, far-right activist in Britain: ‘white jihadists’
The neo-Nazi founder of the terror group National Action was jailed this week. Sadly, there are more like him, says Matthew Collins of Hope Not Hate → Read More
'Real BNP' threatens to fail even more than the real BNP –
Last month the website of the British National Party (BNP) went off line for just short of a week. This led to muffled excitement that... → Read More
Inside the neo-Nazi plot to kill a Labour MP – podcast
A plot to kill a Labour MP and a police officer was only disrupted after an informant within the neo-Nazi group National Action blew the whistle. Robbie Mullen passed the details on to Hope Not Hate’s Matthew Collins. Here, they tell their extraordinary story. Also today: the columnist Aditya Chakrabortty on his unlikely collaboration with the techno group Underworld → Read More
I helped stop a far-right terror plot. Are UK police ready for the next one?
Jack Renshaw’s plot to murder MP Rosie Cooper was foiled, but police should have known his banned neo-Nazi group was operating, says Matthew Collins of Hope not Hate → Read More
Plans for nothing come to the fore –
Larry Nunn is a man born after his time. He longs for a time when the white man was the most important and powerful being... → Read More
Outbreak of stickers down to usual suspects –
Outrage and horror in Heanor, Derbyshire, with an outbreak of freshly printed and posted neo-Nazi stickers last week. According to the local paper, one was... → Read More
Down, out and denounced –
Some good news for the British Nazi movement with the release from prison of Jeremy Bedford Turner, who was jailed for twelve months earlier this... → Read More
Far Right Roundup –
Wrong coloured hoods’ Much ado but not about nothing- but about morons in white hoods in Northern Ireland over Halloween. Now, before Mumble and Bumble... → Read More
Far right round up –
The police and courts in Sussex have dealt a major blow to one of Britain’s most nasty and pernicious child grooming gangs. You may not... → Read More
Blackpool to host Holocaust haters –
I don’t know what it is about Blackpool that attracts so many people from the British far right to go there, misbehave and leave. It’s... → Read More
Far right round up –
Well, it looks like the saga of who will lead the National Front (NF) into its next acrimonious split has been decided. Croydon’s Tony Martin has been handed the poison chalice. While Martin was congratulating himself, it seems his current squeeze was having somewhat of a meltdown back home in Newtonards. During the meltdown the former Britain First hanger-on admitted she has twice attacked the… → Read More
Far right round up –
There’s a big event coming to a venue near Leeds this Saturday with bonehead nazis from across the country visiting for a night of shite... → Read More
When 'outrage' & 'terror' is not what it seems –
Outrage and terror has gripped the pages of the Liverpool Echo this morning “amid fears American white supremacist group is trying to recruit members in... → Read More
Schisms, dating & misogyny
Matthew Collins' latest far-right roundup. → Read More
The fascists who want to buy and sell Hungary –
In a small doorway in Budapest’s city centre, a man is getting overwrought and gesticulating defensively and angrily against prying eyes. He removes his hat... → Read More
Far-right round up –
Well, it was three years to the day yesterday since the mighty National Action cowered inside the left luggage at Liverpool’s Lime Street Station. Oh,... → Read More
Have even the dead tired of the BNP? –
It seems almost an age since the British National Party (BNP) presented an electoral threat. With one million votes in 2009, the party accrued 60... → Read More
National Front's useless leader resigns –
We have often queried the wisdom of those still using the name of the National Front (NF). It (the party) is a wholly shambolic party... → Read More
Far Right Round Up: Bye Bye Paul & Jayda
This was the week in which Britain First leaders Paul Golding and Jayda Fransen were sent to prison. Plus which far-right leader went all hipster with his moustache? → Read More
The collapse of the BNP and EDL has made the far right deadlier
The Metropolitan police is right to warn of the dangers posed by far-right terrorists, says Matthew Collins, head of research for Hope not Hate → Read More