Today the inaugural meeting of a new nationalist organisation will take place. An assortment of discontented nationalists from across the country have been invited to attend what has been billed as a ‘Lancashire Patriots Lunch’, in which the founder members of an organisation calling itself British Renaissance, or BritRen for short, will outline their ideas. In a way, this event typifies all that is wrong with the wider nationalist movement at present, because the launch of…

By Max Musson: I recently overheard a conversation in which one friend asked the other who they would be voting for at the general election? “I’ll be voting for the NF”, said one boldly, “and no-one else!” “But you can’t”, his friend replied, “they’re not even registered and authorised by the Electoral Commission, and they probably won’t be, not this side of the election”. “Who else is there? … “ “Just the BNP, but I won’t…

By Max Musson: The internet forums would have been aflutter with jubilation and speculation as to what this ‘momentous’ turn of events might have heralded, had it happened three or four years ago, but today’s announcement that Nick Griffin is to ‘step aside’ as British National Party Chairman, was met with what can only be described as a mixture of mild disinterest and derision in nationalist circles. Indeed there seems to have been more of…