The Little Black Book of the Populist Right by Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar

The book quotes ‘An Anatomy of the British War on Woke’ by Huw Davies and Sheena MacRae in Race & Class 65, no. 2 (2023) showing that writers from Spiked and UnHerd have been given regular columns in the traditional right-wing media and appeared fifty-seven times on the ‘systematically woke’ BBC’s Question Time.

On 29 July 2024, three young girls, aged 6 to 9, were killed in a mass stabbing at a dance studio in Southport, Merseyside, UK. In the following weeks, far-right orchestrated riots broke out across the UK, fuelled by false claims that the perpetrator of the attack was a Muslim asylum-seeker.

A recent investigation found that groups linked to neo-Nazi organisations are organising meetings and offering paid-for-therapy to survivors of child sexual exploitation as part of a campaign to drive myths about Muslim grooming gangs. See Andrew Kersley, “Special Investigation: ‘The Far-Right Is Cynically Taking Advantage of Child Sexual Exploitation Survivors’,” Byline Times, June 1, 2024.

It is notable that Labour’s current head of political strategy Morgan McSweeney was described by Jon Cruddas MP as ‘the real unsung hero’ of Hodge’s campaign. See Rachel Wearmouth, “Morgan McSweeney – Labour’s Power Broker,” New Statesman, November 16, 2022.