A local election victory yesterday for the British National Party in Boston, Lincolnshire has caused The Daily Mail to worry about a surge in support for this vile statist authoritarian party throughout the UK. So how best to beat the BNP? Is it better to ignore them and to address the concerns - real or imagined - of those who vote for the BNP? Or is the best route to confront them head on and to...

Brett recently posted about George Hargreaves and his Christian Party campaign, which claims ‘We can beat the BNP other parties can’t’ (sic). It turns out that Hargreaves is at least as loopy as some of his BNP opponents. Here’s his take on the design of the Welsh flag: Wales is the only country in history to have

Nick Cohen has a fantastic post at Harry's Place, questioning why Demos was happy to participate in an event at Islam Expo organised by the British Muslim Initiatives. Here's the key section of his argument: “Demos says it is slyly using one brand of Islamism to fight another. Will Demos employ the same cunning plan against the white far right? Given that the BNP, like the Muslim Brotherhood...

A Labour MP claims British National Party supporters beat up a man when he spilled beer over the BNP leader, Nick Griffin.

by Denis Fernando Lesbian and Gay Coalition Against Racism We cant rely on others to beat the BNP In June this year the fascist British National Party won the first seats in a national election for a fascist party in British history – with MEPs elected in the North West and Yorkshire regions. Those who have tried to

I completely agree with Iain Dale that the BBC is right to give the BNP a seat around their Question Time table (Sunday Times report). Iain writes: "I have said I believed the best way to beat the BNP is...

The successes against the BNP in Barking and Stoke in the General Election have created a sense that the tide is turning against the BNP, But these high-profile victories hide a murkier picture in which the BNP actually grew in popularity. Today Labour councillors warn that the biggest threat now in the fight against the BNP is complacency. The real story of what happened in the election shows the...

Decent voters do not want to see a BNP breakthrough in the European elections, but there is no inherent conflict between the views of Ian Austin that "the BNP are not a mainstream political party and we won't beat them by saying how many seats they could win" and Peter Hain's national warning about their possible gains (BNP could get £2m EU funds, Hain warns, 29 April). This is...

Demos' Director, Richard Reeves, draws a parallel between classic liberal thinker John Stuart Mill and eminent philosopher John Gray in a New Statesman profile.

A new site has launched today - NothingBritish.com. It attacks the far-left British National Party and argues that there is nothing British about the BNP. A video has been produced to run alongside the campaign website. I cannot help but worry that this is a dangerous approach to dealing with the BNP, a sordid collection of authoritarian, protectionist, supremacist buffoons with a track record of ...