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.
TODAY: Max Mosley is a nasty piece of work – no argument from me here – but the former owner of your newspaper was literally mates with Hitler, so you might want to be careful with the anti-Nazi moral high ground you fucking hypocrite opportunists. pic.twitter.com/jToAYigXae
— The DM Reporter (@DMReporter) March 1, 2018
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.
I see the Daily Mail is railing about Mosley's 'racist pamphlet' from the 60s
They've forgotten that 30 years earlier the Daily Mail was supporting Adolf Hitler himself
I deplore racist pamphlets,but I detest racist NEWSPAPERS more, especially ones appearing daily in our era
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) February 28, 2018
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.
When Oswald Mosley died in 1980, the Mail told its readers that he had been a “much maligned and much misunderstood political giant of his era”. https://t.co/iO3yrzWoJQ
— Peter Jukes (@peterjukes) February 28, 2018
But this might be our favourite response.