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01 July 2007

Eyes to the right, Oscar Reyes. Red Pepper February 2007. Useful article on Migration Watch, the right-wing anti-immigration think tank that has moved from untouchable to the standard source for tabloid journalists.

The men who are creating a new BNP ideology. Searchlight no 381 (March) 2007, pp 14-15. This article examines the men behind the British National Party (BNP) including their "economics guru", Alan Goodacre, who expounded "the possibility of creating a pan-European network of far-right parties to be called Patriae Europa". Another to be considered is Andrew McKillop. The article concludes that the BNP's leader, Nick Griffin: "hopes that the appointment of an unelected intellectual cadre within the BNP will provide the party with an ideological underpinning beyond its crass and opportunistic anti-Muslim racism, gaining the party significant middle-classes support as a result."

Greater Manchester police investigates claim it has BNP member in ranks, Vikram Dodd. The Guardian 8.5.07. This article covers allegations that the Greater Manchester police force has British National Party members among its front line officers. An investigation was launched after complaints from its own officers who say that they saw fellow officers at a BNP event to mark St George's Day. The force had pledged to stamp out racism in its ranks after an undercover BBC television documentary, The Secret Policeman, exposed trainee officers making racist jibes in October 2003.