For years, a figure operating under the alias Morgoth has been a powerful voice in Britain’s far-right scene. Only now, thanks to an undercover investigation by HOPE not hate, is his true identity revealed: Michael Wright, a 49-year-old man from Seaton Delaval, a town near Tyneside. Once a shadowy digital presence, Wright’s history as a prolific promoter of white nationalist extremism is finally being tied to a real person.
Wright has cultivated a reputation among fascist sympathisers and white supremacists as a kind of intellectual figurehead. Through his Substack newsletter, Telegram channels, and YouTube videos, he has disseminated a worldview steeped in ethnic nationalism, antisemitism, and calls for racial segregation. His followers number in the tens of thousands—many drawn to his blend of faux-philosophy and vitriolic hate.
For over a decade, Wright has been a central figure in digital spaces where the far right gather and radicalise. His writing promotes biological determinism—the belief that different races are inherently incompatible—and repeatedly frames multicultural societies as inherently unstable and doomed to collapse. With alarming frankness, he has called for mass deportations of non-white people and fantasised about violent purges of his political opponents.
Until recently, Wright maintained a careful distance from public view. According to locals who knew him during his time in Seaton Delaval, he was an isolated man, rarely social and vague about his work. His online persona, however, was far from obscure. Wright used Morgoth’s Review, launched in the early 2010s, as a base to spread some of the most extreme rhetoric found in the British far right. It wasn’t until 2023, when he appeared—anonymously listed as a “mystery guest”—at a secretive nationalist conference in Oxfordshire, that investigative journalists finally obtained photographic evidence of his identity.
Wright’s influence is more than just digital. His work has been cited and echoed by far-right terrorists, including American mass murderer Dylann Roof. In a now-deleted article, Wright imagined a fictional scenario where Jews could be instantly identified by a change in skin colour, an idea that reappeared almost verbatim in Roof’s 2015 manifesto written before he murdered nine Black parishioners in Charleston, South Carolina. After the killings, Wright removed the article and alluded to its similarity with Roof’s writings, calling the incident “unpleasant” but showing no remorse or self-reflection.
Wright has also openly admired extremists closer to home. He previously expressed support for Jack Renshaw, a convicted member of the banned neo-Nazi group National Action who plotted to assassinate a Member of Parliament. In one of his earlier posts, Wright casually noted that he had contacted Renshaw with a view to collaboration.
His admiration for historical fascist regimes is equally clear. Wright has published lengthy defences of Nazi Germany, characterising the Waffen SS as noble defenders of Europe. He routinely questions the Holocaust and portrays it as part of a supposed campaign to undermine white Europeans, describing it as a political tool rather than a historical atrocity.
His rhetoric leaves little room for interpretation. In multiple posts, Wright has invoked the idea of armed vengeance against those he deems “traitors.” He has written about fantasising over the arrival of “right-wing death squads” and expressed admiration for the concept of mass executions of political enemies—a reference to themes found in the neo-Nazi novel The Turner Diaries, which has inspired white supremacist violence around the world.
What makes Wright’s case especially disturbing is how he continues to appear on mainstream and fringe right-wing media platforms. He has been featured on podcasts hosted by high-profile culture war pundits and contributed to conspiracy-driven news websites with far-right leanings. His work is still quoted, reposted, and discussed across fascist Telegram channels and message boards.
Michael Wright’s significance is not simply as a lone extremist but as a thought leader in a growing ecosystem of far-right radicalism. He represents the dangerous evolution of British fascism: not boots marching in the streets, but ideas weaponised through online echo chambers, gradually eroding the boundaries between hate speech and public discourse.
The Wider Fascist Network: From Blogs to Broadcasts
Wright does not operate in isolation. He is a central figure in an expanding constellation of British far-right influencers who share platforms, echo one another’s views, and feed off a culture of digital radicalisation.
Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad)
A misogynistic and racist commentator who appeared alongside Wright at Scyldings. Once a UKIP candidate, Benjamin downplays the Holocaust and promotes white nationalist talking points under a veneer of libertarianism.
Mark Collett & Laura Towler – Patriotic Alternative
Leaders of the largest neo-Nazi group in Britain. Collett has called Hitler a “great man” and Towler advocates a white ethnostate. Wright regularly praises and amplifies their work.
Neema Parvini (Academic Agent)
An ex-academic turned fascist YouTuber, Parvini promotes biological determinism, “elite rule”, and white identitarianism. He shares speaking stages with Wright and provides a pseudo-intellectual gloss to fascist ideas.
James Delingpole
The former Spectator writer has platformed Wright on his podcast, calling him “one of the smartest people on the planet”. Delingpole uses his reach to sanitise and elevate violent ideologues.
Paul Golding
Paul Golding is the leader of the far-right group Britain First, known for its virulent anti-Muslim rhetoric and provocative street actions. A convicted hate offender, Golding has repeatedly used social media and public demonstrations to incite division, often targeting Muslim communities under the guise of patriotism.
Normalising Fascism: From Telegram to GB News To Local Communities
Despite his history of hate speech, Wright has managed to infiltrate parts of mainstream right-wing media. He has appeared on GB News, contributed to The Conservative Woman, and is quoted approvingly by public figures within Britain’s increasingly radicalised political right.
This is the greatest danger Wright and his cohort pose: the mainstreaming of fascism. They move seamlessly between encrypted chats and televised interviews, from Holocaust denial to “culture war” panels—gradually dragging public discourse into darker, more violent territory.
And there are people like them crawling out from underneath rocks across many communities. As this article exposed from the summer of 2023, there is a stench of rot within local populations that would fit right in in the Germany controlled by the Nazis from 1933 to 1945.
A Moment of Reckoning
Michael Wright’s unmasking is not just a personal exposé—it is a wake-up call. For too long, the far right has operated with impunity in Britain, dressing up its hatred in “free speech” rhetoric, building online empires, and inciting violence from behind pseudonyms.
But there is no excuse for ignorance now. Wright is not a dissident thinker or misunderstood commentator. He is a fascist, a racist, and an inspiration to terrorists. His writings glorify murder, dehumanise minorities, and call for a racially pure Britain achieved through violence.
The public, the press, and the political class must stop treating these figures as provocateurs or fringe eccentrics. They are dangerous. And now, they are known.
