Joshua Bonehill-Paine

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Joshua Mark John Bonehill-Paine (born 7 December 1992), also known as Joshua Bonehill and by the pseudonym Crewkerne Man, is an English political satirist and Conservative Party politician, and a former neo-Nazi, internet troll, and convicted criminal. He created the YouTube channel The Crewkerne Gazette in March 2025, which publishes AI-generated videos. He was imprisoned in 2015, but in 2018, following his release, said that he had abandoned his far-right views while in prison, and started delivering counter-extremism lectures. In 2015 his blog, The Daily Bale ("Britons Against Left-wing Extremism"), published several racist and anti-immigration hoaxes, as well as false accusations against his opponents. He described himself as "a proud anti-semite". Bonehill-Paine's online activity led to criminal charges being brought against him for harassment, antisemitic commentary and hoaxing, including a 2013 online hoax that led to the owners of a Leicester pub receiving death threats, and other...

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