I admit an extreme bias against the Daily Mail. The newspaper that in pre-war Britain encouraged Oswald Mosely’s British Union of Fascists with the banner headline “Hurrah for the Blackshirts”.
These Black Shirt admirers of the Third Reich and Hitler’s fanatical anti-semitism were vigorously opposed in the UK and most famously in London’s Cable Street where trade unionists, communists and tenants pushed them back in a celebrated defeat.
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