Mosley’s Shadow
Recent clampdowns on protest under Starmer and Sunak extend a long-running war on the Left waged by the British state. Meanwhile, far-right forms of extremism are scandalously deemed low-risk ‘cultural nationalism’.

BUF leader Oswald Mosley at a propaganda march in London, 7 May 1939. Key members of the British establishment took several years to acknowledge Mosley’s far-right politics as extremist. (Photo credit: Imagno / Getty Images)
In late 2008, Dr Peter Harbour, a retired physicist, found out that he’d been listed by the police as a ‘domestic extremist’. Harbour had recently been involved in a campaign to save an Oxford lake. Energy company RWE npower wanted to use the lake for fly ash disposal. The Save Radley Lakes group marched and […]