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As the Daily Mail goes after Max Mosley let’s not forget the Mail’s own history on this sort of thing

The Daily Mail has long been at war with Max Mosley over his campaign for tighter press regulation in the UK, and this week upped the ante when it uncovered from the archives a racist by-election leaflet he published in 1961.

It’s only right that Mosley should be held to account – he says he doesn’t recall the leaflet and is not a racist – but by the same token let’s not forget the Mail’s recent history in this sort of thing.

This is the same Daily Mail, of course, which flirted with support for fascism in the 1930s and whose admiration for Max Mosley’s father, Oswald, continued all the way up to his death in 1980.

And this is the sort of thing he is talking about.

If that’s a little tricky to read, here’s how it starts.

“Because Fascism comes from Italy, shortsighted people in this country think they show a sturdy national spirit by deriding it. If their ancestors had been equally stupid, Britain would have had no banking system, no Roman law, nor even any football, since all of these are of Italian invention.”

Just imagine – the Daily Mail enthusiastic about something coming out of Europe.

But this might be our favourite response.

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