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Commenting on my analysis of Penny Mordaunt's leadership bid, and the point about her potential meddling with the Treasury upsetting th...

Ah, racism. How Stoke has missed thee. Nine years ago the British National Party were banished from the council chamber when, prior to the 2...

I thought the morning had a darker aspect about it than usual, and lo it turned out Theresa May was in town. No walkabout down Stoke's...

A scene replaying itself night after night in drinking establishments across the land. A man, in late middle age, sat alone nursing a pint. ...

Meet Melanie Baddeley. She is one of two councillors elected from Stoke-on-Trent's Abbey Hulton ward. She, along with a representative f...

Three local comrades sat in a McDonald's. In come a group of simi larly-dressed men who, before occupying their seats directly behind t...

It will no doubt be a cack-handed operation, but that is - apparently - what the BNP are planning to do. This from Nick Griffin's "...

One of the first things imbibed at far left school is that the state is essentially and irreducibly racist at an institutional level. But is...

While I accept the basic points advanced, by way of a (sort of) reply to Rob Ford's piece in this month's issue of Progress magazi...

BBC Four's  The Year the Town Hall Shrank is hard-hitting, powerful stuff. As a profile of Stoke-on-Trent, it is unflinching and uncomf...

On a day that demonstrates the thugs of Golden Dawn in Greece aren't necessarily having it all their way ; on a damp, cold island off th...

Stoke BNP councillor Steve Batkin (appropriately, on the far right of the picture) is known for being a spanner short of a tool box, but ...

It's not everyday Nick Griffin writes to me begging for cash, but that's exactly what he's done. This morning thousands of BNP l...

There's been a storm brewing in leftyblogland this week, a storm the comrades at Though Cowards Flinch are responsible for seeding. In ...

At a secret location in Essex yesterday, the BNP's boneheads voted to amend their constitution to allow non-white members take out membe...

Last week was pretty poor for the BNP. Nazi Nick's attempt to do a Pat Robertson and attract publicity by making outrageous remarks abo...