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  1. Return of the Black Shorts

    The above picture shows fascist thug and career criminal Daniel Thomas (a.k.a. Danny Tommo) leading a “protest” of uniformed knuckleheads (those on the right of the picture, in short trousers) outside the Daily Mail offices in London.

    Fans of P.G. Wodehouse will recall Roderick Spode, the 7th Earl of Sidcup, who leads a fascist group called the “Saviours of Britain” also known as the Black Shorts. He is of course a parody of Oswald Mosley and his group a parody of Mosley’s Black Shirts (aka the British Union of Fascists).

    Here’s a relevant quotation from The Code of the Woosters (published in 1938):

    The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.

    How prescient was that?

    Incidentally, fans of historical trivia might be interested to know that the grandson of Oswald Mosley (founder of the British Union of Fascists) and Diane Mitford (a friend of Adolf Hitler, who married Oswald Mosley at the home of Joseph Goebbels) is Louis Mosley, CEO of Palantir UK.

    Coincidentally, Nigel Farage went to the same school as P.G. Wodehouse, Dulwich College.

    #BlackShirts #BlackShorts #DannyThomas #DannyTommo #Fascism #Fascists #OswaldMosley #PGWodehouse #RoderickSpode #TheCodeOfTheWoosters
  2. #OswaldMosley attempted to portray himself as a reluctant antisemite. Such a reading is wrong. Hatred of Jews was at the very core of the would-be dictator’s ideology.

    ⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free

    historytoday.com/archive/featu

  3. If the #DailyMail backs #ReformUK at the next UK election, it will be the first time it hasn't supported the #ConservativeParty since it came out in favour of #OswaldMosley's #BritishUnionOfFascists #Blackshirts in the 1930s. #ukpol

    The Daily Mail's owner in the 1930s was Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere. He met with Adolf Hitler on several occasions during the 1930s