Sometimes there's hope in the darkest places

For once the Independent doesn't put a story I want to link to behind the subscription wall: I was a fascist boot-boy is an intereresting article about Matthew Collins who spent three years informing on the NF, BNP and Combat 18 until he was forced to flee the country because his life was in danger. There's a documentary about him on BBC Three tomorrow night which could be quite interesting. Read the whole thing, but he makes an interesting point about the way the fascist parties are organised:

"The leaders of the National Front and the BNP were invariably Oxbridge educated. Almost all of them tried to make a living off the membership fees of working-class members. I gradually began to realise that I had more in common with my black neighbours than I had with some guy who owns a farm in Wales. I just grew up. I rejected the notions and ideals of fascism, then I dealt with the racism."