Daily Mail in Nazi Sympathising Outrage

It’s a funny thing.

The Daily Mail recently dragged up a piece that Nick Clegg wrote and delivered years ago. Being the Daily Mail the newspaper chose to quote sections of the piece completely out of context.

They did this to highlight a non-existent school of thought – and to promote that non-existent school of thought as fact.

Yet is my memory playing tricks on me when it recalls that the father of the current Chief Executive of the Daily Mail and General Trust (the owner of the Daily Mail), was significantly sympathetic to Oswald Moseley and his British Union of Fascists?

And am I completely mistaken when I remember that the Daily Mail published an editorial (written, very possibly, by Lord Rothermere himself) that praised dear old Oswald for, amongst other things, his ‘sound common sense’?

And didn’t Lord Rothermere write several congratulatory letters to Adolf Hitler – and sent a congratulatory telegram to Adolf on his invasion of Sudetenland?

Don’t I seem to recall that the Nazi sympathising Lord Rothermere also wrote to Adolf, to congratulate the old fascist on his annexation of Czechoslovakia in 1938, and actually *encouraged* him to march into Romania?

As I said, it’s a funny thing.

But you know what to do the next time the Daily Mail has a go at someone and dares to mention that person in the same breath as either of the two words ‘fascist’ and/or ‘Nazi’?

You say ‘So do you, mate. So do you’.

p.s., it is interesting to note that the editor of the Daily Mail is Paul Dacre, and that Mr Dacre is also editor-in-chief of the Mail group titles – which includes the Mail on Sunday. Mister Dacre is also a director of the Daily Mail and General Trust.

Mister Dacre is also the chairman of the Press Complaints Commission’s (PCC) ‘Editors Code of Practice Committee’. The PCC is not an independent body, yet it is tasked with regulating and investigating the British press.

Poacher and gamekeeper all in one place.