Revealed: The Pro-Hitler Messages Behind the ‘Neo-Nazi’ Libel Case Funded by Reform’s Crypto Billionaire Donor

Reform UK’s crypto billionaire donor Ben Delo financed a failed libel case brought by two writers who privately exchanged pro-Hitler messages and agreed between themselves that they should study Mein Kampf, Byline Times can reveal.

The pair contributed anonymously to a blog run by the man behind a neo-Nazi social media account whose posts celebrated the Holocaust and promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories – a man they knew personally. Their private exchanges included discussions of such theories.

The claim was run by Mark Lewis of Patron Law, an honorary patron of the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), who continued to act after Turner’s solicitors set out in writing what his clients’ disclosure contained.

Nina Power and Daniel Miller told each other they each kept a copy of Hitler’s manifesto. “I keep a copy in my study of course,” Miller wrote. “Well I have one too,” Power replied. “I think maybe it is necessary.” Minutes earlier she had been reading a conspiracy tract alleging a “Judeo-Masonic Plan to Conquer the World”; minutes later she asked what “the real deal” was with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion – a notorious antisemitic forgery and hoax first published in Russia in 1903 that falsely claims to reveal a secret Jewish plan for global domination.

The Financial Times reported this week that cryptobillionaire Ben Delo, Reform UK’s second-largest donor, lent Power more than £300,000, secured against her London home, to help pay for the case. Byline Times can now reveal what that case involved.

The findings are based on court documents, WhatsApp messages disclosed in evidence, legal correspondence and Land Registry records seen by Byline Times, including an official decision of the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

The allegations, and the messages underlying them, were set out in public court documents in June 2023. Delo registered his charge over Power’s flat on 20 September 2023 – 13 days before the trial opened.

In a statement to the legal newsletter Per Incuriam, Delo’s solicitors acknowledged the loan and confirmed that he knew of Turner’s allegations against Power and Miller, but said the cryptobillionaire gave them “no credence whatsoever”. A person close to him told the Financial Times he does not believe either Power or Miller is antisemitic.

Yet they lost their case against Turner. In a judgment handed down in November 2023, Mrs Justice Collins Rice dismissed their claim and found their conduct towards Turner “could, on an objective basis, fairly be described as bullying” and “certainly aggressive, in register, language and imagery”. They were ordered to pay 80% of his costs and were declared bankrupt.

Turner has still not been paid. Despite his court victory, Delo’s loan gives him a prior claim on money recovered from Power’s flat, ahead of Turner’s claim for legal costs. The Financial Times reported that Delo enforced his security shortly before Power’s bankruptcy and now receives monthly rent from her as a means of recovering the debt.

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Pro-Hitler in Private?

WhatsApp messages between Miller and Power, disclosed as evidence in the case, show that they were privately discussing race, conspiracy and Nazism even before their involvement in the feud with Turner became public.

On 5 August 2018, Power told Miller that a man running a pub quiz had “started going on about ‘the Jews’ running the world”, which had “soured things” because a Jewish friend was present. Miller replied: “The Jews, yes… What do they run? They run some things…” He recommended the American white nationalist Kevin MacDonald’s Culture of Critique. Turner’s court pleading alleged that Miller had called MacDonald’s work “the most sophisticated anti-Semitic theory”.

Eleven days later, 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.

Power replied that she had been reading about “HBD” – human biodiversity, a term designed to sanitise the idea that humanity is made up of a hierarchy of genetically superior and inferior biological races – saying she had “read [Nicholas] Wade’s book and much of [Nick] Land’s stuff on HBD”. Both Wade and Land have been widely criticised for promoting pseudoscientific concepts of racial determinism and biological hierarchy.

She then wrote: “I think will be orgy of blood soon.” Miller replied: “It’s going to be very very hard to remove all these people.”

Later that month, Miller urged Power to read Ron Unz’s essay ‘American Pravda: Holocaust Denial’, which concludes it is “far more likely than not that the standard Holocaust narrative is at least substantially false”. In his pleadings, Miller said he recommended it “as an account of the history of holocaust denial”. At trial, he acknowledged: “Unz is a Holocaust denier, that is without doubt.”

Asked whether the Holocaust’s status as a subject beyond question was healthy, Miller told the court: “I don’t know whether it is healthy for the Holocaust to have this kind of forbidden status in our culture or not.”

By September 2018, the two were discussing how to keep their anonymous online activity hidden from each other’s followers. “Don’t follow me yet with your secret account,” Miller wrote, “it might reveal your power level” – a reference to the far-right practice of concealing the extent of one’s views. They discussed anonymous accounts they said they operated in each other’s personas, with Miller referring to “the plausible deniability of the ninagroyper”.

The most striking exchange came on 7 October 2018. Waiting for a flight, Power wrote that she was “reading The Occult War and drinking coffee”. The 1936 conspiracy tract, translated into Italian by the fascist philosopher Julius Evola, alleges a “Judeo-Masonic Plan to Conquer the World”.

“I think… at some point… we need to read Mein Kampf properly,” Power wrote. “I want to understand it.”

“I keep a copy in my study of course,” Miller replied. “Well I have one too,” said Power. “I think maybe it is necessary.”

“What if we find ourselves agreeing with it though?” Miller asked. Ten seconds later, still discussing Mein Kampf, he wrote: “oh my god, he’s right about everything!!”

Power went on to ask: “Wonder what the real deal is with the Protocols lol” – a reference to the antisemitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which alleges a Jewish conspiracy to control the world.

Although Turner’s counterclaim for harassment was dismissed, the High Court found that there was “at least some evidence of what might fairly be called a casualness, or perhaps… a knowingness or artfulness, around antisemitic tropes”.

Nina Power did not wish to provide a statement for publication, but set out her position in correspondence with Byline Times. She says it would be wrong and unfair to describe her as a neo-Nazi conspiracy theorist, and that publications by Turner and others using that language do not make the allegation true.

She described the 2018 messages as humorous exchanges between two friends who were already being falsely accused of being Nazis, that they are not evidence of serious opinions, and that her remarks about Mein Kampf should not be taken to suggest she admires or endorses Hitler’s views – adding that people should seek to understand extreme literature of the past in order to understand how people are seduced by it.

The dates contradict that account. Miller and Power’s own Particulars of Claim set out every publication by Turner they sued over. The earliest, naming Miller, was published on 18 October 2018 – eleven days after the Mein Kampf exchange, and more than two months after the messages about Kevin MacDonald, Josef Mengele and the coming “orgy of blood”. The first to name Power was published on 10 March 2019, five months after she and Miller discussed Mein Kampf and the Protocols.

Daniel Miller could not be reached for comment.

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The Campaign

Turner’s ordeal began before he had any direct dealings with Daniel Miller or Nina Power. A high-profile art project he was involved with alongside Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf and artist Nastja Säde Rönkkö, launched on 20 January 2017 (Inauguration Day for President Donald Trump), invited passers-by in New York to say “He Will Not Divide Us” into a camera.

Far-right activists targeted the project. By the judge’s account, this earlier harassment left Turner feeling terrified and drove him into hiding for weeks. He was monitored and stalked; a swastika marked 88, code for “heil Hitler”, was posted through his door. Police told him there was little they could do, leaving him, in the judge’s words, “little choice but to change his identity and move house”.

On 27 July 2018, Turner tweeted – then quickly deleted – a description of the London gallery LD50 as “alt-right (aka alt-Nazi)”. Miller, who had exhibited there, publicly called him a “dishonest propaganda hack”. Court records show Power flagged the tweet to Miller within minutes; he thanked her, and the two described themselves as being “on a mission from God” against Turner.

The private “mission” escalated fast. Within days, Miller was sending Turner messages – “You’re on the list too now…”, then simply “BLOOD” – before publicly challenging him to “a physical fight”.

Turner reported Miller’s messages to the Metropolitan Police on 7 August 2018. Police opened an investigation into potential antisemitic hate crime. The case was passed to the Met’s counter-terrorism division for monitoring, though no charges followed.

According to Turner’s pleadings, material that particularly alarmed police included the Breton quotation posted by @dcgroyper, the anonymous account Power admitted at trial was hers.

Power told Byline Times the groyper accounts have been misunderstood: they were “little cartoon frogs” called Nina Groyper and DC Groyper, used to talk to one another, “not intended to be secret or sinister”, and in 2018 were “Theory-Groypers” with nothing to do with the American Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, who she says hijacked the term much later.

Fuentes did adopt the name later. But in December 2017, eight months before their own accounts were running, Slate had described the groyper as “a plumper and more racist toad counterpart” to Pepe the Frog, circulating on 4chan, Gab and the extreme right of Twitter, whose most extreme variants depicted “groypers outfitted as Hitler”.

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What Emerged at Trial

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.”

Power also admitted that @dcgroyper – an anonymous account that had posted a quotation from the surrealist poet André Breton about “dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly… into the crowd” – was hers. She and Miller had previously denied under a statement of truth that it belonged to either of them.

The man behind the account was Jack Stokoe, whom both claimants knew personally and referred to between themselves as “Heathcliffe”. In a joint response to Turner’s lawyers, Miller and Power said Miller had met him on about four occasions between February 2017 and September 2018. Their messages record an evening out with Stokoe and his partner that July, a Sunday roast that September, and Power suggesting Miller “summon Heathcliffe for the evening”. In October 2018 Miller told her: “heathcliffe and I are wrangling nrx material into some kind of a book format.” Power told the court she had met Stokoe “like two times… maybe three, but always in company”, and that “we never discussed Jewishness”.

Evidence disclosed for trial showed that Miller had interacted with @ParallaxOptics 113 times between October 2017 and September 2018, and Power 137 times between July 2018 and April 2020.

Their exchanges with it were not arguments. In July 2018, days after Power first made contact, the account told her it had “read it already via @dcxtv” – Miller’s handle – and offered her a “crash course” in “bioleninism”, a neoreactionary theory holding that liberal democracies buy loyalty by elevating the biologically inferior. Days later, when the account posted that homosexuality was “dysgenic, feminising, maladaptive, vectors of disease… produces nothing of value”, Power did not object. “Sapphism subtly different,” she replied, “it might be suggested.”

Turner’s barrister asked Miller about a tweet from the account reading “The solution is bigger oven”, suggesting it referred to concentration camp crematoria. Miller agreed: “I think so, yes”. He accepted that it was abhorrently antisemitic, but likened material from the account to graffiti “on a men’s room wall”.

The account’s output also included the assertion that “the classification of Jews as ‘people’ is also obviously highly questionable”; a post stating that “if I was a concentration camp guard at Auschwitz there’s no way that I wouldn’t have committed absolutely horrific atrocities”; and, in reply to a user who wrote that “there’s only one species on this planet” to which the word “vermin” could apply, the single word: “Jews?” Shown that exchange in the witness box, Miller said: “It is abhorrently antisemitic, yes.”

Both Power and Miller denied antisemitism during the proceedings.

Mrs Justice Collins Rice made clear that she was not deciding Turner’s wider allegations about their views, saying “it is neither necessary nor appropriate for me to reach any final conclusions”.

Nevertheless, in her judgement she found that: “… it is hard not to conclude that the risk of creating an experience of antisemitism was one which they were especially well placed to understand and which they were not equivalently scrupulous to avoid. This was not a thought experiment. It was a ‘dabbling in the soul’ of a real-life Jewish man.” She held that the “whiff of threat and antisemitism which they themselves can fairly be held to have created” was nonetheless “too occasional, intangible, diffuse and unconsolidated” to meet the criminal threshold.

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The Lawyer and the Warning

Ben Delo lent Nina Power money to pursue her and Miller’s case against Turner, her solicitors acknowledged to the Solicitors Regulation Authority in a decision seen by Byline Times.

Patron Law told the regulator that, after Power’s no-win-no-fee agreement ended, she used borrowing secured against her flat to pay her legal fees. The loan was repayable regardless of the case’s outcome. The firm maintained that Delo was a private lender rather than a litigation funder.

Power told Byline Times that her no-win-no-fee agreement was terminated in 2023, that she needed funds to continue the case, and that Delo – someone she already knew socially – agreed to lend her money on commercial terms and was entitled to take security for it.

A Land Registry record separately seen by Byline Times names Delo as the holder of that charge.

Four months before Delo registered his charge, 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.

Mark Lewis of Patron Law, who is an honorary patron of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, told Byline Times: “We had no involvement with Mr Delo at all. We have never spoken or communicated with him.”

Ben Delo did not respond to Byline Times’ request for comment.

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The Sanctuary

Ben Delo is not merely Reform UK’s second largest donor – having given a total of £44 million to the party – but a major supporter of a range of extreme right-wing groups in Britain. He also quietly funds a Westminster clubhouse, “the Sanctuary”, used rent-free by dozens of organisations on the right.

Delo, co-founder of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX, gave Reform £36 million on 11 September 2026 – the largest single donation any British political party has ever received.

The race science magazine Aporia – which was set-up to rehabilitate a 1930s Nazi eugenics foundation – has standing access to its exclusive booking system. Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain, whose senior officials support ‘remigration’ – the far-right call for non-white citizens to be removed from the country – launched its mass-deportation campaign from one of its rooms.

At the time of Delo’s support to the Miller and Power defamation claim, the cryptobillionaire was still in Hong Kong. Writing in The Telegraph in April, he said he planned to return from Hong Kong to give further to Reform UK: “I will move back to Britain early so I can contribute more to Reform’s budget… Let’s build a war chest and win back our country.”

The day after Delo’s £36 million donation in September, Christopher Harborne, the Thailand-based investor who is Reform’s other major backer, matched it with £36 million of his own.

Reform UK did not respond to request for comment.