Lone wolves: myth or reality?

Lone wolves: myth or reality?
About the authors
Gerry Gable
Gerry Gable, MA (Crim), is the
publisher of Searchlight magazine
and was one of its founding editors
in 1964. He also acts as a consultant
to Searchlight Educational Trust.
He has pursued his lifelong interest
in combating the far-right enemies
of democracy alongside a career as
a television investigative journalist
and producer, which in turn gave
rise to his work as a trainer and
Dr Paul Jackson
Dr Paul Jackson (author of chapters
5 and 7) lectures in far-right
politics, modern history and media
at the University of Northampton.
His research interests include the
history and ideology of British
fascism and the far right, extremist
ideologies in the twentieth century,
and radicalism and new media.
Alongside Dr Matthew Feldman,
Additional research and writing by
Sonia Gable, BSc, deputy editor of
Searchlight magazine and specialist
in investigating the financial affairs
of the British far right
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adviser to sections of the criminal
justice system. For the past 12 years
he has served as an independent
adviser on race hate crime to the
Metropolitan Police Service. In that
role he participated in quarterly
meetings with the Minister of State
for Security, Counter-Terrorism,
Crime and Policing. He has also
lectured in the USA, Canada and a
number of European countries on
he coordinates a research group
based at the University of
Northampton, Radicalism and
New Media. This is a specialist,
applied research unit that develops
consultancy projects with a range
of practitioner partners, including
police, probation and NGOs.
Developing a particular expertise
in far-right politics, Radicalism
The author wishes to thank a team
of researchers from Searchlight and
of course our brilliant designer.
far-right extremism and
contributed, together with
Searchlight’s European editor
Graeme Atkinson, to two European
Parliament reports on racism and
xenophobia. He has also given
evidence to the House of
Commons Home Affairs
Committee and to Sir William
Macpherson’s enquiry into the
death of Stephen Lawrence.
and New Media also hosts
conferences and promotes wider
awareness of far-right politics.
He will be publishing a major
report on the English Defence
League in autumn 2011 and has
previously written a number of
articles and specialist
encyclopaedia entries on fascism
and extremism.