Gregory Lauder-Frost

{{bronze}}[[File:WACL Delegates.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Lauder-Frost (l) with Clive Derby-Lewis (r) at the 1990 World Anti-Communist League Conference]]
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'''Gregory MacLennan Scholey Lauder-Frost''' (born '''Gregory Frost''' in August 1951<ref>https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/z98FD7RAUuH1yIZzO85Tpok4K74/appointments</ref>) is an [[Australia]]n-born [[United Kingdom|British]] [[white nationalist]], [[Metapedia]] admin, and convicted criminal.<ref>[http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12579799.Tory_who_kept_right_on_stealing_cheques/ Tory who kept right on stealing cheques]. ''Herald Scotland''. November 28, 1992.</ref> Once associated with the rightmost fringe of the British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]], he is founder and vice-chairman of the [[Traditional Britain Group]] and (former) UK head of the [[far-right]] book publisher Arktos, perceived as the publishing wing of the [[alt-right]] movement.<ref name="Porter">{{cite news |last1=Porter |first1=Tom |title=[https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/meet-swedish-mining-tycoon-bankrolling-alt-rights-global-media-empire-1608221 Meet Daniel Friberg, the Swedish mining tycoon bankrolling the alt-right's global media empire] |accessdate=19 October 2018 |work=International Business Times UK |date=3 March 2017}}</ref><ref name="Searchlight2024">[https://searchlightmagazine.com/2024/03/traditional-britain-emerges-from-the-shadows/ "Britain emerges from the shadows"], ''Searchlight'', March 25, 2024</ref> Self-styled 'GLF' (an abbreviation of his initials), his opponents have been known to parody him as 'TPF' ('tonsured pleb frost') or 'Frauder-Lost'.

In July 2019, Lauder-Frost was fined £300 and ordered to pay £200 compensation after being found guilty of a racially-aggravated offence.<ref name=southernreporter2019>[https://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/crime/borders-community-council-chairman-hit-with-500-court-bill-for-breaching-race-hate-laws-1-4964798 Borders community council chairman hit with £500 court bill for breaching race hate laws], Southern Reporter, 15 July 2019</ref> Racist messages he had posted online included: "you have no right to be in our country or arguing ''[sic]'' with a superior race” and “what do you think you are doing in my country?".{{fact}}

==Life==
He was born plain Gregory Frost in The Salvation Army Mothers' Hospital "Hillcrest" in Merewether, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia on 8 August 1951<ref>Birth notice in ''Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate'' 13 August 1951</ref> to Australian Wallace Frost (great-great-grandson of English convict Thomas Frost, who was transported to Australia in 1810 for stealing a large sum of money)<ref>https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/23371/page/1836 ''The Edinburgh Gazette'' 11 May 1993 Issue 23371 Page 1836</ref> and [[United States|US]]-born Cecily Scholey Lauder, the daughter of [[Scotland|Scottish]]-born Matt Lauder Jr. who had emigrated to Australia, then to the US (where he was naturalised and his daughter was born) and, thence, back to Australia, where Matt Lauder Jr. became a naturalised Australian.{{fact}}

His parents married at St Andrew's Church (Presbyterian) in Newcastle, New South Wales, in April 1948.<ref>Reg no 14154/1948 ''New South Wales Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages''</ref> Wallace Frost is described on the marriage certificate as 'boilermaker' and Cecily Scholey Lauder is described as 'tracer'. Lauder-Frost's grandfathers are described on his parents' marriage certificate as 'truck driver' and 'electrician' respectively.{{fact}}

His great-great-uncle was the Scottish entertainer {{wpl|Harry Lauder|Sir Harry Lauder}}. Lauder-Frost likes to claim that the house known as Lauder Ha',<ref>https://canmore.org.uk/site/203413/strathaven-colinhill-road-lauder-ha ''Canmore: National Record Of The Historic Environment''</ref> which Sir Harry had built in Strathaven, South Lanarkshire in 1936, on land purchased just a few years earlier, was his "family seat"<ref>[https://www.berwickshirenews.co.uk/news/your-say/letters-to-the-editor-1-3211982 Letters To The Editor], ''The Berwickshire News'', November 28, 2013</ref> – thus giving the false impression that he is descended from landed gentry. However, being distant relatives, none of Lauder-Frost's immediate family were beneficiaries of Sir Harry's will. Lauder Ha', which was put in the name of Sir Harry's niece and companion, Margaret 'Greta' Lauder, to avoid death duties, passed to Margaret 'Greta' Lauder, and the house and contents were auctioned off after her death in 1966.{{fact}}

Frost claims to be descended from the Lauders of the Bass, but his own family records appear to stop with John Lauder (born c. 1630).<ref>https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lauder-312 "John Lauder in Morham (b. bef. 1630)"</ref> Given that he has documented the extensive lineage and descent of the Lauders from whom he claims to descend, it is odd that he has not linked up his own line.{{fact}} The only sources for Frost's descent from the Lauders of the Bass appear to be his claim that it is 'more than likely' and the fact that Sir Harry Lauder, a comedian, used to claim such descent.{{fact}}

By December 1981, when he married his [[Poland|Polish]] first wife, Joanna Pecka, he was living in a basement flat in Philbeach Gardens, Earl's Court, London SW5,<ref>''GRO 1981 Qtr D Vol 13 Page 1086''</ref> then a very popular bedsit area with Australian immigrants and known colloquially as Kangaroo Valley.<ref>http://books.publishing.monash.edu/apps/bookworm/view/Australians+in+Britain%3A+The+Twentieth-Century+Experience/137/xhtml/chapter15.html</ref> His Australian origins make his use, on the forum of the former Conservative Democratic Alliance, of phrases such as "the upstart son of an East End [[Anti-Semitism|Jewish]] taxi cab driver" (to describe {{wpl|John Bercow}}) heavily ironic because such phrases were typically used by those who talked about "jumped-up colonials" wholly unironically.{{fact}}

Lauder-Frost is a member of several genealogy societies and is happy to give advice to those seeking information on the Lauder or Frost families on the many genealogy websites to which he contributes, but his own birth is always conspicuously absent from every family tree on these websites.

He was formerly associated the Conservative Party and served as chair of the foreign policy committee of the [[Conservative Monday Club]]. In March 1990, when German unification, was imminent, he objected to the "bogus Polish claims on German Eastern provinces" and said the German borders should return to "as they were on 1 January 1938".<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/718126489/?match=1&terms=%22bogus%20Polish%20claims%20on%20eastern%20German%20provinces%22 ""], ''The Independent on Sunday'', Edward Steen, March 4, 1990, p. 19</ref> Additionally, he was a member of the [[Western Goals Institute]],<ref name=mcsmith>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/gregory-lauder-frost-exposed-the-tory-fringe-group-leader-with-nazi-sympathies-8755093.html "Gregory Lauder-Frost exposed: The Tory fringe group leader with Nazi sympathies], Andy McSmith, ''The Independent'', 9 August 2013</ref> an organisation with close links to the [[Europe]]an far-right and [[South African]] racist politicians (vice-president Clive Derby-Lewis of the South African Conservative Party was later sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in a racist, terrorist murder.<ref>[https://www.news24.com/Obituaries/obituary-clive-derby-lewis-20161103 Obituary: Clive Derby-Lewis], ''News24'' (South Africa), 3 Nov 2016</ref>)

In 1992, Lauder-Frost was sentenced to two years imprisonment for stealing £110,000 from his employers, a London health authority, where he had worked as a payroll manager. In his defence, he said he needed the money to fund a custody battle against his Polish ex-wife.<ref name=mcsmith/><ref name="National2019">[https://www.thenational.scot/news/17798544.far-right-group-vp-gregory-lauder-frost-fined-racist-abuse/ Far-right group VP Gregory Lauder-Frost fined for racist abuse], Martin Hanna, ''The National'', 27 July 2019</ref> Around this point, ''[[Private Eye]]'' often referred to him as "Gregory Frauder-Lost".

In 2013, he gained media attention for inviting then Conservative backbench MP [[Jacob Rees-Mogg]] to a speak at a dinner of the [[Traditional Britain Group]], a far-right organisation run by Lauder-Frost.<ref name="BBC2013">[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23617555 "MP Jacob Rees-Mogg: Dinner speech 'a mistake'"], ''BBC News'', August 9, 2013</ref> Rees-Mogg accepted the invitation but after media criticism described Lauder-Frost's views as "disgusting".<ref name="National2019" /> At the time, Lauder-Frost was identified as a member of the [[UK Independence Party]] (Ukip).<ref name="BBC2013" />

Lauder-Frost was in legal trouble once more in 2019 following an online dispute with 21-year-old student Isadora Sinha. He made several racist and threatening posts directed toward her, including: "you are on the list. Don’t get too comfortable." His other comments included "You are not British. You are someone of foreign ethnicity." "It is not skin colour that matters, it is race. Your natural home lies out of the UK." "Please go back to your natural homeland instead of insulting us." "I am not a white nationalist. I want to keep Britain British. If you are not ethnically British, you are not British." At the trial, he said, "She was an alien in this country, my country, and putting forth insulting arguments." He was convicted of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner and fined £300 plus £200 compensation; the judge was unequivocal in his verdict, saying, "The comments are racist. They clearly are."<ref name=southernreporter2019/>

==Far-right opinions==
Lauder-Frost supports encouraging the repatriation of people of "non-European stock" to their ancestral countries of origin, even those born in the UK.<ref name=mcsmith/><ref>http://thesteepletimes.com/movers-shakers/moron-month-gregory-lauder-frost/</ref> Frost, however, does not oppose immigration from other European countries into the UK, and his first-wife was ethnically Polish. His opposition to immigration, therefore, is based on skin colour and racism.

He objected to the peerage received by anti-[[racism]] campaigner {{wpl|Doreen Lawrence||.}} Lawrence was the mother of {{wpl|Murder of Stephen Lawrence|Stephen Lawrence}}, a black teenager who was murdered in April 1993 during a racist attack; the {{wpl|Metropolitan Police}} failed to properly investigate his death. Over many years, she campaigned against the Met's institutional racism in the Met exposed by his death. Interviewed by {{wpl|Vanessa Feltz}} on her BBC London radio programme, he said:
<blockquote>We do not feel there is any merit in raising such a person to the peerage. She's a complete nobody. She has been raised there for [[politically correct]] purposes. She's just a campaigner about her son’s murder. It's ridiculous. She has made countless anti-English comments over the last 10 years. She’s no friend of the English people.<ref name=mcsmith/></blockquote> Lauder-Frost believed she wasn't posh enough to become a member of the [[House of Lords]]. In the same interview, he objected to the {{wpl|House of Lords Act 1999}} which removed the right of most hereditary peers to sit in the chamber:<blockquote> They have kicked out people who have sat in the House of Lords for 1,000 years consecutively, father to son, father to son, all that experience of running the country. We're filling the House of Lords with spivs.<ref name=mcsmith/></blockquote>

The ''Daily Mirror'' in two articles on 30 and 31 January 2018 reported Lauder-Frost was secretly filmed by [[Hope not Hate]] referring to Lawrence as a "[[nigger]]", and in the same speech described Vanessa Feltz (also a television presenter) as a "fat Jewish slag." Lauder-Frost subsequently complained to the {{wpl|Independent Press Standards Organisation}} saying he did not call Lawrence a "nigger" but a "big black woman".<ref>[https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=02785-18 
Decision of the Complaints Committee 02785-18 Lauder-Frost v Daily Mirror].</ref> 

The ''Daily Mirror'', in response, published a correction:

{{quotebox|A previous version of this article stated that the undercover Hope Not Hate investigation showed Gregory Lauder-Frost calling Doreen Lawrence a n*****. Although Mr Lauder-Frost called Ms Lawrence a 'big black woman' with 'no credibility whatsoever for a life peerage, none, just because she is black' we have since been advised that Mr Lauder-Frost did not use the term 'n*****'.<ref>https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mirror-northern-ireland/20180905/281578061544087</ref>}}

The correction did not change much since Lauder-Frost admitted that "he did not believe in [[miscegenation]]", he wants to "halt alien immigration” into the UK and encourage voluntary repatriation." In other words, he's an overt racist. Lauder-Frost also admitted to calling Vanessa Feltz as a "fat Jewish slag." The ''Daily Mirror'' published a later article quoting Frost's anti-Semitic comment.<ref>[https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ukips-new-leader-shared-black-12049053 UKIP's new leader shared black-tie dinner table with right winger filmed calling Vanessa Feltz a 'fat Jewish s**g'], ''Daily Mirror'', 18 Feb 2018</ref>

In April 2019, he gave a speech at the {{wpl|Alternative for Germany|Alternative for Deutschland}}'s Conference on Preserving European Civilisation, Culture and Value.<ref name="National2019" />

==Arktos==
Arktos, founded in 2009, is a publisher associated with the European ethnic-nationalist [[New Right (Europe)|New Right]] movement.<ref name=aboutarktos>[https://arktos.com/about/ About Arktos], Arktos website, accessed 21 Feb 2018</ref> Its global boss is Daniel Friberg (a leading figure in [[Sweden]]'s far right and European head of [[Richard Spencer]]'s AltRight.com<ref>{{wpa|Daniel Friberg}}</ref>), while Lauder-Frost was formerly head of the UK operation<ref name="Searchlight2024" /> (with William Clark). Arktos has published works by:
*[[Julius Evola]], the late Italian anti-liberal, anti-[[democratic]] [[philosopher]] and [[occult]]ist, notorious for his [[rape]]-apologetics and [[misogyny]]<ref>{{wpa|Julius Evola}}</ref>
*Guillaume Faye, an "overtly racist" [[French]] writer and occasional [[porn]] star who has [[Islamophobia|opposed Muslim immigration]] since the 1980s.<ref name=buzzfeed/>
*Alain de Benoist, a veteran French nationalist who believes in the necessity to keep the white race free of foreign influences<ref name=buzzfeed>[https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/the-man-who-gave-white-nationalism-a-new-life?utm_term=.yb0702Xd3#.dwgG6qLNB The Man Who Gave White Nationalism A New Life], Buzzzfeed, Dec 26, 2017</ref>
*Pierre Krebs, founder of the extreme-right wing, [[Nazi]]-influenced [[neopagan]] organisation {{wpl|Thule-Seminar}}
*[[Aleksandr Dugin]], an advisor to [[Vladimir Putin]]
*Paul Gottfried, the [[American]] [[paleoconservative]] thinker
*Steven J. Rosen, involved in the [[Hare Krishna]] movement

==Metapedia==
Frost joined the [[white supremacist]] wiki [[Metapedia]] in January 2014, using his real name Greg Frost.<ref>User creation log: [https://archive.ph/uaEO5 screenshot].</ref> Within a couple of months, he was made an admin and wrote his own autobiographical article (itself largely a recreation of a much-contested, and eventually deleted, Wikipedia article). In December 2014, Frost wished to change his name to make his account anonymous since he realised he would attract criticism for editing on a [[far-right]] website; he changed his name to Cicero:

{{cquote|I would like to change my user name to something anonymous as per virtually everyone else. I am getting flak. Consider Cicero or something like that but please could this be done ASAP retrospectively and this request then deleted from this page.|||Greg Frost<ref>[http://archive.ph/z7vhX Screenshot]. Archive.ph.</ref>}}

He later deleted this comment to try to remain anonymous; but we have pics, so it did happen.

Frost still continues to deny he is a Metapedia admin, despite it being conclusively proven:

*His first account was named Greg Frost.<ref>https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Greg_Frost</ref>
*Frost as Greg Frost made his own whitewashed autobiography article, with extensive genealogical claims of relationship to nobility and royalty citing nothing but "Wikitree", Frost having been the one to create entries for his own family members.<ref>https://archive.ph/bIp9V</ref><ref>https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lauder-Frost-1</ref>
*After Frost realised there would be negative publicity because he used his real name connecting him to a far-right wiki, he requested to change his name to Cicero to be anonymous, but since names couldn't be changed he created a new account.<ref>https://archive.ph/ct11S</ref>
*Frost's second account was named Cicero.<ref>https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cicero</ref>
*After another wiki exposed the name change,<ref>http://archive.ph/z7vhX</ref> Frost abandoned his second account.
*Frost now edits Metapedia on his third account as Matt58, lying about being "young and single"; in the Discussion page of Frost's Metapedia article, Matt58 disingenuously commented on 3 October 2018 "We are grateful to Gregory Lauder-Frost for answering all our questions to make this a better article".<ref>https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/User:Matt58</ref><ref>https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gregory_Lauder-Frost</ref>
*Matt58 was created on 29 December 2016, when Frost stopped editing as Cicero on 20 December 2016 - so Frost isn't even good at trying to cover his tracks.
*As additional proof Matt58 primarily edits his own autobiographical article and the [[Traditional Britain Group]] page.

==See also==
*[[Traditional Britain Group]]

==References==
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