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Searchlight's deeply held convictions.

Most of Searchlight's leading figures, including Gerry Gable the publisher of Searchlight magazine have criminal records for amongst others; theft, burglary, arson, attempted arson, credit card fraud, blackmail, and the late and unlamented founder, Harry Bidney was found guilty of eight charges of living off the earnings of prostitutes.

In court, Bidney was described as the company secretary of Calderhead Investments, which was headed by David Calderhead, who was jailed for, on his own admission, attempting to procure a 16-year-old boy to commit an act of gross indecency with the predatory homosexual Harry Bidney.

Searchlight magazine is also used to spreading all sorts of lies, fabrications and half-truths. This has resulted in them facing legal action for smears on Conservative politicians and a political researcher; and 'left-wing' shops (e.g. Housemans, near Kings Cross, London) refusing to stock their publication.

BBC TV had to pay out half a million pounds to Tory MPs Gerald Howarth and Neil Hamilton as a result of a libel action over the Panorama programme Maggie's Militant Tendency (broadcast on the 30th January 1984, which used Searchlight's "research material". Indeed, Gerry Gable was its "Associate Producer."

Birds of a feather flock together?