Press coverage of crypto billionaire Ben Delo’s funding of antisemitic lawfare

The revelation that crypto billionaire Reform UK mega-donor Ben Delo gave £350,000 to fund neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power and Daniel ‘DC’ Miller in their antisemitic lawfare against me has received front-page coverage in the Financial Times, the Guardian, as well as in-depth reporting in the Byline Times.

The Financial Times reports on how the case “shines a spotlight on Delo’s support for individuals and organisations whom critics accuse of having at times tested the boundaries of legitimate free speech.”

Their coverage highlights the secret ‘Groyper’ accounts that Power and Miller were found to have used to engage in their abusive conduct, as well as Power’s promotion of a grotesquely antisemitic caricature of me exhibited by far-right provocateur Mathieu Malouf, using the imagery of Nazi-era Judeo-Bolshevik antisemitic propaganda. Power’s shameful defence of this, it reports, continued in court:

Power, who denied she knew the artist behind the sculpture personally, argued under questioning in court it was not necessarily antisemitic. “It’s not a hook nose. I mean, it’s more like a kind of comic nose,” she told the court about the sculpture, adding that there are “many communists who are not Jewish”.

Nazi Judeo-Bolshevik propaganda posters shown in court (L) alongside an antisemitic caricature of me by Mathieu Malouf exhibited in 2019 (R)

The Guardian, meanwhile, covers some of the private messages between Power and Miller disclosed at trial:

Power wrote: “The social disapproval for ‘racism’ is a psyop to stop people realising that there *are* alien and fairy races,” and that “black and white were alien races and very different”. In a later exchange Power brought up Hitler’s autobiographical political manifesto, Mein Kampf, writing “I think…at some point…we need to read Mein Kampf properly…”, adding that she wanted to “understand it”.

 

In an episode referenced in the judgment, Miller performed at a public event in Athens, delivering a lecture in the persona of the Italian far-right philosopher and antisemite Julius Evola. During the rise of fascism, Evola called for measures to counter “the Jewish menace”.

The Byline Times goes further, examining how

Miller sent Power a blog post about “ethno-suicide”, which it described as “a wish for self-replacement by alien ethnic groups”. He added: “thinking of fleeing to argentina like mengele” – a reference to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.

The article, headlined ‘The pro-Hitler messages behind the neo-Nazi libel case funded by Reform’s crypto billionaire donor’, details how Power had first flagged me as a target to Miller, and how “the two described themselves as being ‘on a mission from God’ against Turner.”

It also demonstrates how the case brought by Power and Miller was predicated on dishonest denials of their neo-Nazi beliefs and associations, which ultimately unravelled on the witness stand:

In August 2023, weeks before trial, Patron Law wrote to Turner’s lawyers about a text published on the blog associated with @ParallaxOptics – a neo-Nazi account on X which was notorious for promoting Adolf Hitler. Turner had accused the account of publishing antisemitic material and Miller of amplifying it to smear him. The firm insisted the text “was not prepared by our clients”.

 

Shown the letter in the witness box, Miller said: “I think this statement is not accurate.” He added: “I composed the text, actually, myself…” The next day, Power also acknowledged contributing to the text: “I wrote a couple of paragraphs.”

The piece conveys how, with Delo’s financial backing, facilitated by their lawyer Mark Lewis, Power and Miller were able to drag their vexatious case to trial despite the weight of damning evidence against them:

Four months before Delo registered his charge [on Power’s property], Turner’s solicitors Mishcon de Reya had told Patron Law the case was hopeless. In a letter dated 26 May 2023, seen by Byline Times, they said the material Power and Miller had belatedly disclosed was “exceptionally disturbing” and that “the experienced lawyers reviewing this material have been genuinely horrified by its content”. It described the messages as “unequivocal evidence” of the pair’s “explicit endorsement and support of antisemitic ideas and other racist and fascist positions”, and said their Statements of Truth “must have been knowingly false”. Power and Miller were invited to discontinue within seven days. They did not.

The Financial Times article concludes with the ongoing investigation into Delo’s funding arrangement, which appears to be an unlawful attempt to dissipate Power’s assets in order to avoid paying the substantial costs awarded to me by the court:

After Miller and Power lost their libel claim, the judge ruled that they were liable for 80 per cent of Turner’s legal costs. The pair were ordered to make an initial £250,000 payment. Power was then declared bankrupt in July 2024 after Turner filed a petition against her, a step creditors can take to reclaim outstanding bills.

 

Insolvency practitioners overseeing Power’s bankruptcy opened an investigation into the “validity” of Delo’s charge on her property, according to a September 2025 report to creditors. The status of this investigation is not clear. Insolvency professionals routinely probe matters that have a significant impact on a bankrupt person’s creditors.

Links to articles:

Financial Times
‘Reform UK’s mega-donor backed a friend’s libel claim. Now he controls her home’
https://as.ft.com/r/2c6791dd-74cd-4a5a-9bdf-04e355dd8b37

The Guardian
‘Reform donor Ben Delo loaned £350k to academic later found to have engaged in online bullying’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/18/reform-donor-ben-delo-loaned-350k-academic-online-bullying

Byline Times
‘Revealed: The pro-Hitler messages behind the neo-Nazi libel case funded by Reform’s crypto billionaire donor’
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/09/18/revealed-the-pro-hitler-messages-behind-the-neo-nazi-libel-case-funded-by-reforms-crypto-billionaire-donor/