[…] Chesterton. A one-time member of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF), Chesterton broke with Mosley in 1938. During World War II, he supported Britain’s efforts against Hitler and thus never had to face the charge of treason that haunted Mosley throughout his post-war career. (3) In the late 1940s, Chesterton even held a […]
[…] this point. With the BEF routed in Belgium and the French government starting to sue for peace, the cabinet appeasers made concerted efforts to begin talks with Hitler via the Italian ambassador in London. Leading the rush, and spouting many weasel words, were Lord Halifax and R. A. Butler, both favourite politicians of King […]
I sent the following by e-mail to a number of people: ‘Thus Martin Jacques in the New Statesman: ‘For the next 30 years, neoliberalism – the belief in the market rather then the state, the individual rather than the social – exercised a hegemonic influence over British politics, with the creation of New Labour signalling […]
The incompetence which has been the hallmark of the world’s ‘most powerful man’ has left the world with a legacy we can only begin to rub our eyes at: George W. Bush’s successful derailing of concerted action on climate change; an energy crisis; a $3 trillion war (that’s just the cost to the Americans of […]
[…] and consequently remained unpublished.) In the run up to the Gulf conflict, extensive use was made of the media to demonise Saddam Hussein as either a new Hitler, or a madman; or, ideally, a combination of both. (It is interesting to note that before transforming Saddam into a ‘bad guy’, the same media had […]
[…] Destiny sounds like the name of one of his minor Super Heroes – ‘Here comes Captain Infinity and Destiny’ – and carries too many overtones of A. Hitler and his crew of dotty psychos. Kok’s contempt for democracy, all too characteristic of our European elites, evokes the same echoes to me. The two books […]
[…] Union of Fascists in 1932 until possibly as late as 1950, and had been a prominent and vocal ‘fellow traveller of the Right’, advocating a settlement with Hitler in 1937-1940. He believed that Britain should have no strong commitments to Europe. Like David Stirling, Lord Lucan, Aspinall and ‘Tiny’ Rowland later, Lymington also had […]
[…] schools. Thanks to a leg-up from the Thuringian Nazi Party in 1930 Gunther was appointed to the University of Jena with his inaugural lecture being attended by Hitler himself. Through his work, which set out to prove the racial superiority of the Aryan race both theoretically and physically – he had been involved in […]
[…] remarkable ability to motor forward on the belief of the participants long past the point when they should have collapsed; and the actions of ‘great men’, from Hitler to Bush, have precipitated changes that might otherwise not have happened for years or perhaps decades. Neither Carlyle nor Marx were wholly right: there are great […]
[…] to be characterised by a malignant and evil form of capitalism in which cartels and big business had too much power. Whether or not industrialists had helped Hitler into office they had become one of the props to his regime. So given that the pacification of Germany was central to international security after the […]
