Joshua Bonehill

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Joshua 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 false accusations, for which he received a suspended prison sentence. He was described as an "internet troll" by the prosecutor at a 2014 court hearing. He was arrested in June 2015 for inciting racial hatred against Jews, for which he was found guilty in December, receiving a jail sentence of three years and four months. In 2016, he was sentenced to two years in prison for racially-aggravated harassment to be served in addition to his first sentence. Bonehill-Paine said that he began to question his previous antisemitic views after reading the Bible during his second year in prison. He has also stated that he abandoned his far-right views following the murder of Jo Cox. He completed the Home Office-accredited Healthy Identity Intervention Programme while in custody and passed the government's Prevent deradicalisation programme. He was released from prison in May 2018; following his release, he said he had delivered counter-extremism seminars to schools, police and...