STOP PRESS (16/05/2026). This story has taken off. The Telegraph reports that the Good Law Project, a loony-left vanity idea run by well-off boy, Jolyon Maugham, ‘have organised an online petition titled “stand in solidarity with Misan Harriman”, which has been signed by more than 19,000 people.’ They include a bunch of celebs including musicians Paul Weller and Paloma Faith, documentary maker Louis Theroux, broadcaster Gary Lineker, artist Dame Tracey Emin, Hugh Bonneville and Greta Thunberg. See the full list of luvvies.
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Now why did the wealthy chairman of the Southbank Centre in London compare Reform’s victory in Britain’s 7th May 2026 local elections to the Nazi Holocaust?
Misan Harriman, chairman of the Southbank Centre since 2021, said in a video posted on social media that the “first thing that came to mind” was a quote by one Susan Sontag on the Holocaust. Citing Miss Sontag, he said: “Ten per cent of people in any population are cruel, no matter what, and ten per cent is merciful, no matter what, and the other remaining 80 per cent could be moved in either direction.
“It’s such a profound way to look at us. And in the context of yesterday’s election results is something I think is really topical. The surge of Reform is real, no one should deny it.”
Comments ‘shocking’ – and stupid
No, it’s not profound, and the statistics quoted by Miss Sontag are pure invention, but his link of the surge in voting for Reform to the rise of the Nazis, responsible for the Holocaust, is at the same time reprehensible and plain stupid.
In the Jewish Chronicle, Karen Pollock, chief executive of Holocaust Education Trust, criticised Harriman’s take as “shocking”. She wrote: “Whatever one’s political view, how on Earth could yesterday’s election results ever be comparable to the Holocaust – the mechanised state sponsored murder of six million Jews by Nazis and their collaborators?”
Shadow Chancellor of Reform UK, Robert Jenrick, also condemned Harriman.
“Comparing the millions who voted Reform on Thursday to the Nazis is disgusting. This crass moron should be nowhere near a taxpayer funded organisation,” Jenrick said.
Harriman then engaged in ducking and diving to try to escape. ‘In this video, I actually say that Reform voters are not devils. Yet due to NOT watching the full video, [Robert Jenrick] is saying I am comparing reform voters to Nazis. Truth matters, folks, even on X”.’
So for Misan, Reform voters are ‘not devils’, which I suppose is his attempt at generosity, they’re just either nasty, or not very bright. They have been influenced, he goes on to say, by ‘certain newspapers’ and ‘certain charlatans.’ Well, they sure haven’t allowed the Guardian, the BBC and the charlatan Zack Polanski to influence them, so maybe they’re not as daft as Misan Harriman.
Public funding of Southbank Centre
Before we look at Misan Harriman’s record of antisemitism, let’s ask about the Southbank, the UK’s largest arts and cultural centre, home to the Royal Festival Hall, which has distanced itself from its chairman’s remarks.
The Southbank Centre is funded by Arts Council England. Its most recent received donation is £10 million. Sir Keir Starmer has just criticised the Arts Council for preferring to give taxpayers’ money to antisemitic arts projects. The Spectator’s Lara Brown says this has been going on for ten years. And who appoints the members of the Arts Council?
Arts Council England (ACE) says: ‘Our National Council is made up of 15 members, who are also charitable trustees. The council includes our National Chair, Sir Nicholas Serota and the five chairs of our area councils. Members are appointed by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, usually for four years and may be reappointed for a further term of four years. Each member is appointed because of their special interest in, or experience of, the arts as practicing artists or art administrators; as senior academics; or as public or private sector executives.’
The members of ACE are appointed by the Rt Hon Lisa Nandy MP, herself appointed by none other than Sir Keir Starmer in July 2024. But let’s not be too hard on her. The Secretary of State is not trawling through lists of arty names. It’s civil servants who decide who is appointed and they put before the SoS the names of people with similar views to them, those who faces fit in the corridors of power.
Who appoints these people?
That is the basis of appointments to the whole Quangocracy, and to the boards of venues like the Southbank Centre, for that matter. Because it turns out that the governors on the Southbank Centre’s Board (Patron: Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh) are officially appointed by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, after a quangocrat stitch-up. Here is how it works:
A Southbank Centre Press Release details how Misan Harriman was appointed in May 2021 to be its chairman:
‘The Board of Trustees of the Southbank Centre, London’s iconic multi-arts centre, are pleased to announce the appointment of their new Chair, Misan Harriman. The appointment has been approved by the Secretary of State, Oliver Dowden MP, following the recommendation of the Southbank Centre Board and after consultation with Arts Council England.’
Mr Dowden was one of Ms Nandy’s Conservative predecessors. We see how it doesn’t matter which party is in office. The Civil Service and Quangocracy Establishment grinds on regardless. The Southbank Centre continued:
‘Mr Harriman’s appointment follows a comprehensive search process for a visionary leader with a deep passion for the potential of multi-arts programming, and a proven commitment to the power of culture in bringing diverse communities together.’
They couldn’t find one, so they appointed the grindingly right-on Misan instead.
Misan Harriman antisemitic and fashionable
And Misan Harriman is antisemitic. He’s the whole package. The Jews are committing genocide in Gaza, Israel wants to take over Iran, yes, Misan is bonkers, Jews are selling ‘palestinian’ land in synagogues, they are ‘occupiers’ and it’s them who are doing ‘killing and starvation’ in Gaza, not Gaza’s ruling despotic grasping Hamas terrorists, and so on.
He is also a photographer who made his name in 2020 documenting the Black Lives Matter protests in London in classy black-and-white photos. You remember, the BLM protests where the Metropolitan Police knelt down to the rioters and whose organisers ran off with millions of dollars.
That made him fashionable among the monied left. British Vogue immediately hired him to shoot a cover for them. They were chuffed, and so was he, that Mr Harriman was the first Black man to do that in the magazine’s 104-year history. That matters to the fashion luvvies gushing over a guy who publicised the Marxists of BLM.
Misan went to photograph Extinction Rebellion protests, naturally. He has celebrated the rise of the Green Party as an “extraordinary story” which evolved, he claims, ‘without media support’.
He is in a parallel universe, this dude. The leftist media have been all over the Green Party and its chairman Zack hypnotits Polanski. The Green Party is crushingly establishment, multicultural, NetZero and antisemitic. Just up their street.
Son of billionaire businessman
Now of course Misan Harriman did not pop up from nowhere. We learn he was born on 15th December 1977 in Calabar, Nigeria, to the late Chief Hope Harriman, who was a billionaire businessman and politician from Warri in Nigeria’s Delta State.
His father, whose surname was from his English father, Misan’s paternal grandfather, was nevertheless a titleholder in Nigerian chieftaincy and a descendant of the Olu, that’s the King, of Warri who built a fortune trading in Delta State in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Chief Hope sent Misan to a fee-paying preparatory school, Stubbington House in Ascot and from there to boarding school, Bradfield College in England. From there Misan went into the City of London to make more money and build contacts, as you do.
Mother and monied wife
We don’t know the name of his mother, but he is very proud of her, even if, after all that education, he thinks ‘You’re’ as in ‘You are’ is spelled the same as the possessive ‘Your’.
Naturally, he is married to a posh Swedish girl with money, Camilla Holmstroem, a fellow photographer, city trader and company director. They make sure they are seen at lots of high-end events.
Oh yes, Misan’s step-mother is Roli Daibo-Harriman, an international judge now notorious for overturning the result of a football match, the final of this year’s Africa Cup of Nations, which was played and decided on the pitch in January this year, stripping Senegal of their 1-0 victory two months later and naming the hosts, Morocco, as champions instead. They know what side their bread is buttered, these people.
Friend of Prince Harry
So Misan is a seriously well-off posh boy, a friend of Prince Harry even, of the type who can afford the policies of the antichrist Green Party and who have a warm glow thinking about their ‘diversity’.
That a couple of Green Party candidates have been arrested for antisemitism and many more have claimed the 7th October 2023 atrocity was staged by the Jews or that the Hamas murderers are really ‘freedom fighters’ will not trouble Misan one bit.
Well, I read: Prov 28:11 The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
Rich men full of violence
So let’s do that. The rich man is here castigating working-class Reform voters as racists, or Nazis, even though it’s actually him and the Islamo-left who are out there attacking Jews, just as was done by the real Nazis in Germany in the build-up to the real Holocaust. The prophet Micah observes:
Micah 6:12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
This rich man will be thinking of working-class people as stupid, even though it’s them, not him, who have noticed that our nation’s economic and social direction is building up into despair and unrest.
It is written: Prov 14:16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident. (KJV)
Well, he can run on for a long time, as Johnny Cash sang, but sooner or later God will cut Misan Harriman down. As Mary the mother of our Lord declared:
Luke 1:53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
Prayer and Action
Pray not just for Misan Harriman, but for the whole antichrist quangocracy to be cut down. Why are these repositories of godless leftism and establishment views in receipt of public money? Let them stand on their own two feet. Thank God he has exposed this scandal, and thank God, as the Lord Jesus said:
Luke 12:2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
You can write to the Patron of the Southbank Centre, Prince Edward, here:
The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh,
Bagshot Park,
BAGSHOT, Surrey,
GU19 5PL
Begin your letter with “Sir” or “Your Royal Highness”. It is respectful to say ‘your Royal Highness’ rather than ‘you’ in your letter. Close with “I have the honour to be, Sir, Your Royal Highness’s humble and obedient servant.” Some say it is becoming acceptable to write, “Yours sincerely,” followed by your name. Be legible, clear and succinct.
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