Luke Turner

I can now reveal that crypto billionaire Ben Delo—pardoned by Trump after a conviction for anti-money-laundering violations—privately funded the failed libel action brought against me by neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power and Daniel Miller to the tune of at least £300,000.

Lola Salem, who is involved alongside Nina Power in running the far-right London art space 'Verdurin' (named after an antisemitic Proust character), has been charged with possessing indecent images of children.

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bylinetimes.comRevealed: The Pro-Hitler Messages Behind the ‘Neo-Nazi’ Libel Case Funded by Reform’s Crypto Billionaire DonorBen Delo financed a failed defamation case brought by two writers, who privately exchanged pro-Hitler messages and talked about studying Mein Kampf, against a British Jewish artist who accused them of...

More key context here is the fact Verdurin's Pierre d'Alancaisez sat in court alongside Nina Power & DC Miller throughout their ghoulish antisemitism trial, in which they tried to whitewash LD50 & launder Evola, engaging in Holocaust revisionism while their lawyer interrogated me on my "Jewishness".

bylinetimes.comFar-Right Bookshop Praised by Reform's James Orr Faces Police Warning Over 'Racist' Post About Muslim MenOldspeak, which sells Hitler’s speeches and flew a ‘Remigration Now’ flag, has been endorsed by senior right-wing figures, including Lord Frost, James Orr and Tommy Robinson

Another excellent Byline Times exposé here on Oldspeak, the far-right bookshop that was also involved this week in promoting Verdurin's event with Vauban Books, featuring white nationalist Edward McLaren and others. Nina Power, meanwhile, frothed that Byline Times are "Horrific, snivelling people."

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social

🔴 Far-Right Bookshop Praised by Reform’s James Orr Faces Police Warning Over ‘Racist’ Post About Muslim Men Exclusive: Oldspeak, which sells Hitler’s speeches and flew a ‘Remigration Now’ flag, has been endorsed by senior right-wing figures, including Lord Frost, James Orr and Tommy Robinson

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It's now been reported that Lola Salem was charged alongside Henry Hopwood-Phillips, who pleaded guilty and was handed a suspended sentence. Henry Hopwood-Phillips was a prolific writer for neo-fascist site IM-1776, run by Daniel 'DC' Miller—Nina Power's co-litigant in my case.

Here's "lads om tour" Henry Hopwood-Phillips—recently convicted of child sex offences—in 2022 with Daniel 'DC' Miller, the bankrupt American neo-fascist & Julius Evola LARPer. This was posted during the period in which the offences Hopwood-Phillips pleaded guilty to took place.

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The "inestimable" Lola Salem, according to Verdurin's founder Pierre d'Alancaisez… Salem appears to have organised the Verdurin summer party in conjunction with reactionary pressure group, Freedom in the Arts.

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This recently published paper by @neillevy.bsky.social in the Royal Institute of Philosophy's journal is a spot-on examination of the phenomenon of leftists pivoting to the "bananas right"—with evidence from my High Court case against Nina Power cited as Exhibit A: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

democracyforsale.substack.comReform mega-donor Ben Delo named in Bitcoin “theft” lawsuitExclusive: Class action seeks to hold BitMEX founders "accountable for fraudulent conduct". We spoke to the lawyer behind the case against the now-closed crypto firm

Democracy for Sale reports on more "illegal, unethical and immoral" conduct from Ben Delo—the crypto billionaire who funded neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power & DC Miller's antisemitic lawfare against me—in a class-action lawsuit alleging Bitcoin theft.

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social

The class action, filed in New York in July, accuses Delo and BitMEX of “theft” and says wants to hold them “accountable for the fraudulent conduct” BitMEX closed down in September, a few weeks after Delo announced he was giving Reform £36m. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-meg...

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Josiah Mortimer

Climate campaigners staged a protest outside The Sanctuary, London base of crypto-billionaire Reform UK donor Ben Delo, this morning. Some protesters wore Nigel Farage and Ben Delo masks and passed around bags of money

There is currently a Climate Resistance protest happening outside Ben Delo's Westminster office "to call out his dodgy mega-donations to Reform UK" @climateresistance.bsky.social

luketurner.comPress coverage of crypto billionaire Ben Delo's funding of antisemitic lawfare - Luke Turner

Ben Delo also funds antisemitic lawfare. Neither he nor his money have any place in UK politics.

theguardian.comReform donor Ben Delo loaned £350k to academic later found to have engaged in online bullyingJudge said Nina Power and her friend’s social media posts had ‘the whiff of threat and antisemitism’

20 Sept

This week has seen front page coverage of crypto billionaire Reform donor Ben Delo’s funding of neo-Nazis Nina Power and DC Miller in my High Court antisemitism case, in the Financial Times and the Guardian, as well as excellent in-depth reporting by the Byline Times (links below).

From @theguardian.com: Reform donor Ben Delo loaned £350k to academic later found to have engaged in online bullying Judge said Nina Power and her friend's social media posts had 'the whiff of threat and antisemitism' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

as.ft.comReform UK’s mega-donor backed a friend’s libel claim. Now he controls her homeCrypto billionaire Ben Delo loaned more than £300,000 to former academic Nina Power

20 Sept

In @bylinetimes.bsky.social: Revealed: The Pro-Hitler Messages Behind the ‘Neo-Nazi' Libel Case Funded by Reform's Crypto Billionaire Donor Ben Delo financed a failed defamation case brought against a British Jewish artist who accused them of antisemitic bullying. bylinetimes.com/2026/09/18/r...

The @financialtimes.com: Reform UK's mega-donor backed a friend's libel claim. Now he controls her home Crypto billionaire Ben Delo loaned more than £300,000 to former academic Nina Power as.ft.com/r/2c6791dd-7...

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Byline Times

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18 Sept

Revealed: The Pro-Hitler Messages Behind the ‘Neo-Nazi’ Libel Case Funded by Reform’s Crypto Billionaire Donor Ben Delo financed a failed legal case in defense of two writers who privately exchanged pro-Hitler messages and talked about studying Mein Kampf...

bylinetimes.comRevealed: The Pro-Hitler Messages Behind the ‘Neo-Nazi’ Libel Case Funded by Reform’s Crypto Billionaire DonorBen Delo financed a failed legal case in defense of two writers who privately exchanged pro-Hitler messages and talked about studying Mein Kampf

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Guardian US

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19 Sept

Judge said Nina Power and her friend’s social media posts had ‘the whiff of threat and antisemitism’

theguardian.comReform donor Ben Delo loaned £350k to academic later found to have engaged in online bullying

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Stewart Home

@stewarthome.bsky.social

18 Sept

Nina Power & Daniel Miller told each other they each kept a copy of Hitler’s manifesto. Power had been reading a conspiracy tract alleging a “Judeo-Masonic Plan to Conquer the World”; later she asked what “the real deal” was with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. bylinetimes.com/2026/09/18/r...

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17 Sept

Replying to @bondhack.ft.com

FT story carefully worded, but some more detail on the people Delo was backing here bsky.app/profile/luke...

Luke Turner@luketurner.com

As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke...

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Robert Smith

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17 Sept

Ben Delo is many things: a crypto billionaire, a Reform mega-donor and a free speech advocate. @oilsheppard.bsky.social and I discovered he's also the landlord of a bankrupt academic after funding her failed libel claim against a Jewish artist who complained of antisemism www.ft.com/content/21aa...

ft.comReform UK’s mega-donor backed a friend’s libel claim. Now he controls her homeCrypto billionaire Ben Delo loaned more than £300,000 to former academic Nina Power

12 Sept

Luke Turner@luketurner.com

3 Sept

Ben Delo, the crypto billionaire who funded Holocaust-revisionist neo-Nazi "bullies" in the High Court against their Jewish target (me), has just given Reform another £4 million. This is the scary state of UK politics. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Luke Turner@luketurner.com

4 Sept

Worth noting too how Reform's James Orr—disgraced by Verbatim's Channel 4 exposé—leapt to Nina Power's defence (alongside Kathleen Stock) following the damning judgment and her unmasking as antisemitic conspiracy theorist and anonymous contributor to a notorious neo-Nazi account.

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Also note "race realist" Nathan Cofnas's appearance in Nina Power and Daniel Miller's messages about "The Jews" revealed in court. luketurner.com/Nina_Power/

mishcon.comLuke Turner successfully defends libel action in key freedom of expression caseThe British artist, Luke Turner, has successfully defended a libel claim brought against him by Daniel “DC” Miller and Nina Power. Mr Turner's counterclaim

Periodic reminder that Kathleen Stock unapologetically crowdfunded for neo-Nazi bullies in their calamitous libel case against me.

Omar Khan@omaromalleykhan.bsky.social

Imagine crowd funding to support two people who lost a libel case when a judge concluded actually yes your friends are antisemities as a matter of fact (see below) and then still thinking you are entitled to speak about how racism is exaggerated I mean I guess you're at least consistently wrong

See also these horrific antisemitic posts exhibited in court showing replies to Nathan Cofnas by Parallax Optics, the neo-Nazi account that Nina Power and Daniel Miller were unmasked as anonymous contributors to.

bylinetimes.comThe Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason ArdayThe media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

19 Aug

Byline Times here details Nathan Cofnas's racist network, backed by crypto-billionaire Ben Delo. More scrutiny is needed of how Delo covertly funded the neo-Nazis in my case to the tune of £350,000 (enabling Nina Power to unlawfully dissipate her assets). bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

Periodic reminder that Kathleen Stock unapologetically crowdfunded for neo-Nazi bullies in their calamitous libel case against me.

Omar Khan@omaromalleykhan.bsky.social

Also note "race realist" Nathan Cofnas's appearance in Nina Power and Daniel Miller's messages about "The Jews" revealed in court. luketurner.com/Nina_Power/

It was beautiful.

I'm thrilled to share a Call for Papers for 'Metamodern Performance, Now!'—a special issue of Studies in Theatre & Performance, which I'll be editing alongside the brilliant @miserchristmas.bsky.social. 🎭 Abstracts of 250-300 words invited by 2 August. Full CFP here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f0yxq...

9 May

Excited to be taking part in Wednesday's symposium on the Aesthetics of Postdigital Extremism at University of East London alongside some fantastic speakers. I'll be on the panel: 'Crisis, Normalisation, & Hope/lessness'. 🛜🔥🌐🙌 Attendance is free – details here: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

theguardian.comSussex University overturns £585,000 fine as high court rejects free speech breach claimRuling is blow to Office for Students after it issued record fine for allegations over professor’s trans rights views

29 Apr

Glad to see that the fine against Sussex University regarding Kathleen Stock has been overturned. Stock separately campaigned for neo-Nazi "bullies" Nina Power and Daniel Miller in their failed High Court action to suppress my freedom of speech. Beyond contempt.

Luke Turner@luketurner.com

I will never forget how Kathleen Stock promoted a campaign by two far-right conspiracy theorists to use libel laws to suppress my free speech in combating neo-Nazism. When their lawsuit failed—the Judge ruling their conduct aggressive antisemitic bullying—Stock doubled down. Free speech hypocrisy.

17 Apr

Timely analysis by James Wilson on the legal ramifications of crypto billionaire & Reform donor Ben Delo's £350,000 funding of antisemitic "bullies" Nina Power & Daniel Miller in the High Court, and a pattern of unlawful conduct by Patron Law's Mark Lewis: perincuriam2.substack.com/p/episode-16...

In describing Nina Power & Daniel Miller's "bullying" conduct towards me, the judge singled out the manner in which their litigation was conducted and my cross-examination at trial—a truly horrific ordeal that saw me interrogated on my "Jewishness" by the antisemites' barrister.

17 Apr

Given all the above, will Ben Delo: i) assist the insolvency practitioner in voiding the charge on Nina Power’s home; and ii) make reparations for the extreme financial harm and distress his actions have caused in enabling Miller & Power’s sadistic High Court action against me?

The piece raises the question of whether Mark Lewis ever notified my solicitors of third-party funding in the case. The answer is no. In fact, it was categorically denied. It was only Nina Power's bankruptcy that uncovered Ben Delo having paid £350,000 directly to Patron Law.

17 Apr

Ben Delo's solicitors say he had not seen any evidence of Nina Power or Daniel Miller's fascist or antisemitic views, "nor would he knowingly provide support to those who [hold such views]." In light of the evidence of their neo-Nazi affiliations that emerged at trial, where does he now stand?

Toby Young had initially promoted Nina Power and Daniel Miller's action, but soon deleted his post sharing their fundraiser after being made aware of their extremism—plus the overtly anti-free-speech nature of their case. Privately, his Free Speech Union backer, Ben Delo, had no such qualms.

luketurner.comVictory in High Court libel case against neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists - Luke TurnerI am delighted to have successfully defended the libel claim brought against me in the High Court by neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power and Daniel ‘DC’ Miller, bringing to an end legal proceedin...

Ben Delo's role here raises further questions about the funding arrangements of Mark Lewis, who has ongoing proceedings against @owenjones.bsky.social. The insolvency practitioner’s investigation into Nina Power and Daniel Miller’s finances, meanwhile, continues.

At the time of proceedings, Daniel Miller was a writer for neo-Nazi site Social Matter, which calls for the "segregation and separation" of Jewish people, while Nina Power has gone on to champion antisemitic conspiracy theorist 'Millennial Woes' and the far-right Scyldings network.

theguardian.comRevealed: a crypto billionaire’s political base hosting ‘anti-woke’ and rightwing activists in WestminsterPardoned by Trump after violating US banking law, Ben Delo provides funding, networking, and podcasting space for a range of groups, including those with hardline views on migration and abortion

Further evidence from trial, including WhatsApp messages disclosed between Nina Power and Daniel Miller in which they enthuse about antisemitic conspiracy theory 'The Occult War' and muse about "what the real deal is with the Protocols"—can be found here: luketurner.com/Nina_Power/

Earlier this month, Ben Delo was the subject of a joint investigation by @theguardian.com and @hopenothate.org.uk, detailing his funding of various right-wing causes in the name of purported free speech, including Toby Young’s Free Speech Union.

However, the revelation that Ben Delo spent £300,000 funding a cynical attempt to silence criticism of antisemitic conspiracy theorists—exposed in court as anonymous contributors to a notorious Hitler-promoting neo-Nazi account—casts Mr Delo's activities in a far darker light.

The insolvency practitioner managing Nina Power and Daniel Miller's bankruptcies uncovered a paper trail showing that Ben Delo paid their solicitor, Mark Lewis’s firm, Patron Law, directly, whilst taking a 100% charge on Ms Power's London home on the eve of trial.