Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Methodology A fascist minimum? Post-war fascism? Recidivists or radicals: ‘neo’-fascism? Continuity in the British fascist tradition Milieux and groupuscule Notes 1 Arnold Leese: The ‘anti-jewish’ camel doctor Kitson and Beamish Imperial Fascist League Leese and Mosley The lure of Nazism The Nordics Anti-Semitism IFL in the East End ‘Leese for Peace’ Internment Post-war Judgement at Nuremberg Rat lines Rebuilding the anti-Semitic international Yockey ‘Keep Britain White’ Legacy Notes 2 Sir Oswald Mosley: From ‘Britain First’ to ‘Europe-a-Nation’ Post-war politics Europe-a-Nation Mobilising against immigration Notting Hill Post-mortem ‘The First Reality of Europe’ A. James Gregor The revival The Conference of Venice Punch-up politics South Africa The ‘expert forgetter’ Notes 3 A.K. Chesterton: From ‘Fascist Revolutionary’ to ‘Jew-wise’ conspiracy theorist Early life British Union of Fascists The Fascist fringe Other literary endeavours League of Empire Loyalists Anti-Immigration Kenya Decline The Jeffrey largesse Rhodesia South Africa National Front Enoch Powell Fountaine Disillusionment and death Legacy Notes 4 Colin Jordan: Dreaming of the Nazi ‘Vanguard’ League of Empire Loyalists White Defence Force White Defence League British National Party Spearhead National Socialist Movement Françoise Dior Leyton Synagogue arsons British Movement Party time is over Legacy Notes 5 John Tyndall: In pursuit of the ‘Anglo-Saxon Reich’ Early activism National Labour Party British National Party ‘The SS state is now our aim!’ Greater Britain Movement National Front Chairman The Ugandan Asians The Monday Club ‘March and grow’ The ‘populist’ challenge 1976 split Lewisham The 1979 general election Transatlantic travails Resignation British National Party Tyndall and Islam 1991 visit to USA ‘Rights for Whites’ Combat 18 End game Legacy Notes 6 Nick Griffin: From the ‘Third Position’ to anti-Muslim‘ populism’… and back again Early years Young National Front Ideological recalibration Political soldiers Ideological inspirations Rising star Webster’s removal Reich ‘n’ Roll ‘No to Cruise, No to CND’ Ulster ‘Europe of a hundred flags’ The 1986 split ‘The New Alliance’ Libya International Third Position Joining the BNP The Rune trial Moderniser ‘New Leader, Same Cause’ Oldham ‘Hard talk, Hobbyism and Hitler’ Keighley The London 7/7 attacks An amicable divorce? Trial The Emperor’s new clothes Griffin’s Götterdämmerung Legacy Notes Conclusion Continuity and change on the British fascist fringe The quest for relevance Notes Select bibliography Primary sources Secondary literature – Books Index