Spearhead (magazine)

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Spearhead was a British

John Tyndall until his death in July 2005. Founded in 1964 by Tyndall, it was used to voice his grievances against the state of the United Kingdom

. The magazine has not continued under new editorship, although a new article appeared on the magazine's website in October 2010.

History

From 1967 to 1980, Spearhead served as the official mouthpiece of the

political views regard it as an outlet for racist and neo-Nazi

material, although Tyndall himself denied these accusations.

While Tyndall was leader of the British National Party, he used the magazine as a platform for promoting the policies of the BNP. When he lost the leadership election to Nick Griffin he started to use it to attack the current BNP leadership. In the light of this, along with the very much more 'hardline' opinions carried by the publication, which were not considered to be in line with current BNP thinking, the BNP consequently decided to prohibit the sale of Spearhead at BNP meetings. Tyndall was also expelled for related reasons, although he was later readmitted following an out-of-court settlement with the party. He was subsequently expelled again before his death.

A former editor of the magazine (of which Spearhead had several, in addition to Tyndall himself), until Tyndall's split-off in 1980, was

Richard Verrall, a noted Holocaust denier

, and then National Front ideologue.

The magazine had a limited circulation and was not easily obtainable in most British newsagents, and most public libraries refused to accept copies because of what was generally felt to be the racist tone of the publication. It was largely distributed by

Social Credit, two books by David Icke and three by Richard Body.^[1]

In July 2010, Spearhead made a return as a bi-monthly magazine of the

Valerie Tyndall, Tyndall's wife, made a complaint on the Spearhead archive website that the return of Spearhead has been made in the interests of a former foe of Tyndall, Erik Ericksson, and that it was not in the interest of Tyndall to have Spearhead in continuation after his death. Valerie also claimed that "Erik Ericksson" was the nom de plume of Eddy Morrison

References

^ "Home". spearhead.co.uk.
^ "Newdawnparty.uk".
^ "Newdawnparty.uk".

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