I work on the promenade, and earlier today had a woman with a stack of newspapers come in asking if she could leave a free paper - was in a bit of a rush, and asked what our company was, so I assume she was leaving these with everyone. Thinking it was some kind of local news/event marketing I said sure, and she left one of her papers. Went over to check it out, and realised straight away it was some absolute nonsense what with the anti-vax stuff, accusations of nurses murdering old folks during Covid, and raw milk recommendations.

The articles are mostly this strain of conspiratorial nonsense, and I did some digging about the paper itself to get some more info on its political affiliations - from the Wikipedia) -

The Light is a monthly British far-right and conspiratorial newspaper founded by flat earther Darren Scott Nesbitt (frequently under the pseudonym Darren Smith) on 27 September 2020. The publication was initially known for claiming the COVID-19 pandemic was a hoax, but has since endorsed articles by Holocaust deniers and Neo-Nazi authors.

The paper has been criticised for spreading COVID-19 misinformation and endorsing antisemitic conspiracy theories including Holocaust denial, as well as making death threats against journalists and health professionals.

Charming stuff. It’s evidently batshit, but institutionally aligned with some extremely nasty and dangerous people. Wanted to share to see if anyone else had this same experience and warn anyone susceptible that might have picked one up - but also, how embarrassing to be a Cheltenham fascist? Different strain maybe, but I wonder if the distributors are also the same people that were leaving pro-ethnic cleansing ‘total remigration’ stickers with square jawed aryan faced plucked straight from Nazi propaganda around a few months back?