This one is a great place to start; just don't forget to read what Mosley and his followers have to say about the movement themselves. Never just read one book on any subject. Whether you like Oswald Mosley or not, this book is worth reading. This book really needs to be edited. Oddly enough, they grace a biography of Sir Oswald Mosely -a relatively insignificant and forgotten political figure to most minds today, and certainly one with some thousands of gallons of blood less on his hands than the above mentioned men.
There is very little to go on when dealing with the phenomenon of British Fascism, and even less with its leading figure Sir Oswald Mosely. There are numerous flaws both stylistically and in content, which I'll briefly outline below- 1. If all signs signified in a person's action are ciphers of unconscious, pathological ground work: There are no in-text references: Allow me to repeat once more --not a SINGLE inline sitation appears in the text, everything is embedded in the narrative.
Perhaps dissimulative narrative structure and Freudian logical acrobatics are strategies taught in the profession he is a so called 'expert' on: Salient and symptomatic examples from Chapter 1.
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Dorril's observation is true of all children and is part and parcel of adolescents' ascent to maturity -he is awful eager to jump the gun in regard to Mosely's one case out of many, and hold it up as some sort of singular aberration of character and pathology. This made it impossible for him ot experience concern for others. Perhaps upper-class education in manners and being a 'perfect gentleman' are foreign to the authors own vulgarly insinuated righteous condemnations. The facts assembled are very useful provided one has the patience to wade through this ideologically leftist textual bramble.
Just avoid approaching this text with a vultur's eye as this author frequently has approached his subject. Why a leftist would choose to write a biography of Sir Oswald is beyond me. Quoting from long discredited 'New Left' sources started in the 's, Dorril attempts a 'logical' takedown of Sir Oswald that fails from the outset in a whirlwind of circular reasoning. This "historical" view of Sir Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists is best summarized as a sounding board for each of Dorril's Communist opinions laid out poorly and weakly. Way below Penguin's publishing standards and an absolute waste of time.
This is quite a useful book, though often erroneous.
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People who bought this also bought. About this product Key Features Author s. Publication Data Place of Publication. Show more Show less. Ratings and reviews Write a review. Fascinating true story of pre-war fascism Tells the truth about the support for Oswald Mosley and his fears for Britain's future Verified purchase: And in one of the first races I ever took part in there was a list of people when they put the practice times [ At national level in the UK, Mosley competed in over 40 races in and ; he won 12 and set several class lap records.
In , he formed the London Racing Team in partnership with driver Chris Lambert to compete in European Formula Two , which at that time was the level of racing just below Formula One. Their cars were prepared by Frank Williams , later a Formula One team owner. It was a dangerous time to race.
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Mosley's best result that year was an eighth place at a non-championship race at Monza. He kept out of trouble and generally used his head. In , after two large accidents due to breakages on his Lotus car, Mosley decided that "it was evident that I wasn't going to be World Champion" and retired from driving. The name March is an acronym based on the initials of the founders; the 'M' stands for Mosley. His father told him that the company "would certainly go bankrupt, but it would be good training for something serious later on.
Mosley played a key role in publicising the new outfit. Although March had few resources and limited experience, the firm announced ambitious plans to enter Formula One, the pinnacle of single-seater racing, in The team had initially intended to enter a single car, but by the beginning of the season partly due to deals made by Mosley , the number of March cars entered for their first Formula One race had risen to five.
Two of these were run by March's own in-house works team and the rest by customer teams.
The new operation was initially successful. In Formula One, March cars won three of their first four races. One of these was a world championship race, the Spanish Grand Prix , won by reigning world champion Jackie Stewart in a customer car run by Tyrrell Racing. As a result, March finished third in the Constructors' Championship. The factory also sold 40 cars to customers in various lower formulae. Despite these successes, the organisation got into financial difficulty almost immediately. The Formula One operation was costing more than the customer car business was making.
The March works team's contract with its lead driver, Chris Amon , was expensive, and Mosley, in his own words, "tried at every opportunity to get rid of him". Amon stayed to the end of the year, but Mosley succeeded in "restructuring" his contract, saving the company some much-needed money. According to Lovell the money came from Mosley's half-brother, Jonathan Guinness.
Tyrrell started making its own cars towards the end of , and March's program in Formula One was much reduced, with no recognised front-running driver. The Firestone and STP sponsorship was insufficient and Mosley failed to attract a large backer for Motorsport author Mike Lawrence has suggested that the shortfall forced him into short-term deals, which maintained cashflow, but were not in the best long-term interests of the company. The engines proved uncompetitive, and his hopes of an ongoing partnership with the Italian automobile manufacturer were not met.
March's financial woes continued: Mosley and Rees disagreed over how to rectify the situation and Rees left March early in March was more successful in selling large numbers of customer cars in the lower formulae. Mosley organised extensive test sessions for the cars for journalists and drivers, and arranged a successful scheme for drivers to rent cars and engines for the season, rather than buying them outright. As a result, he spent less time with the Formula One team, where Mosley started to act as a race engineer. Although March considered quitting Formula One on several occasions, money was always found to support at least one car.
Motorsport historian Mike Lawrence credits Mosley with pressing for a six-wheeled March to be built as a draw for sponsors, having seen the popularity with fans of Tyrrell's six-wheeled P The resulting March never competed in Formula One, but generated the required publicity and a Scalextric slotcar model was profitable.
The cars were rarely frontrunners, although the works team won a single race in both and By the end of , Mosley was fed up with the struggle to compete in Formula One with no resources and left to work for FOCA full-time, selling his shares in the company to Herd but remaining as a director. March's involvement in Formula One ended the same year. Although the new March organisation was not popular with the established teams, Mosley has said that "when they went along to meetings to discuss things such as prize money, they felt they ought to take me along because I was a lawyer".
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Within a very short time, the two of us were doing everything for the GPCA, instead of everyone moving around in a block, and from that developed FOCA. In his biography of Ecclestone, Terry Lovell suggests that he appointed Mosley to this role not only because of his legal ability, but also because he "saw in Mosley the necessary diplomatic and political skills that made him perfectly suited to the establishment of the FIA". His nomination was blocked by French, Italian and German manufacturers. As Mosley has since commented: If Balestre could have held the manufacturer's support for a little bit longer, the constructors would have been on their knees.
The outcome would then have been very different. The most recent version of the Concorde Agreement expired on 31 December , and a new one was being discussed, as of That same year, he established Simtek Research , a racing technical consultancy firm, with Nick Wirth , a former March employee. Later that year Ecclestone was appointed a vice-president of the FIA with responsibility for promotional affairs, with authority over Formula One and the other motor sports authorised by the FIA.
Mosley said that his decision to challenge the Frenchman was prompted by Balestre's reported intervention on behalf of his countryman Alain Prost to ensure that race stewards disqualified Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna from the Japanese Grand Prix. He also said that no-one challenged Balestre because they were afraid of the consequences and suggested that the FISA President should not interfere with F1, which could be left to run itself. Mosley resigned a year later, fulfilling a promise made during his election campaign to seek a re-affirmation of his mandate. As well as motorsport, the FIA's remit includes the interests of motorists worldwide, an area in which Mosley wanted to involve himself: After the deaths of drivers Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger at the San Marino Grand Prix , worldwide media attention focused on the charismatic triple-world champion Senna, rather than Ratzenberger, a virtual unknown driving for the minor Simtek team.
Mosley did not go to Senna's funeral, but attended that of Ratzenberger. I thought it was important that somebody went to his. Watkins, who learned of his new role by hearing Mosley announce it on the radio, has called it a "novel and revolutionary approach". Ecclestone had been building up Formula One as a television package since the early s, investing heavily in new digital television technology. Mosley said "My belief is that I got a better deal than anyone else could have because it was more difficult for Ecclestone to take a hard line with me as we had worked together for so long.
They refused to sign the Concorde Agreement without increased financial returns and threatened to make a complaint under European Union competition rules. Mosley was elected to his second term as president of the FIA in October The TV Company argued that Ecclestone and Mosley were in breach of commercial clauses in the Treaty of Rome; following the court's decision Mosley appealed the judgement and cancelled the series until further notice.
On appeal, the court ruled that the series organiser should be able to sell the television rights to whoever they felt was the best option for coverage and the FIA reinstated the European Truck Racing Cup. Between and Mosley repeatedly warned that if any EU decision went against the FIA, the marketing organisations and F1 itself would be moved out of Europe. The Commission argued that a number of commercial agreements could be viewed as anti-competitive and invited the FIA and Ecclestone's companies, ISC and FOA, to submit proposals to modify these arrangements.
In , nine months after settlement talks had begun, the parties reached an agreement to amend existing contracts, which included Ecclestone stepping down as the FIA's vice-president of promotional affairs and the FIA ending all involvement in the commercial activities of Formula One. In order to maintain Ecclestone's investment to deliver digital television, he proposed extending Ecclestone's rights for F1 coverage to years from the initial 15, arguing that a deal of such length could not be anti-competition as it was effectively the same as an outright sale.
In addition, the FIA continued to receive an annual dividend from the deal, Mosley stated: Looked at from that point of view, it is a huge amount of money. Before the settlement with the EU Commission was reached, Mosley feared that the FIA was losing control over the sport following a heated argument with Ecclestone in Paris. Ecclestone argued that he had built Formula One into the entity that it was and the FIA only had rights to designate the event as official.
Ecclestone threatened to "do a scorched earth " if another party were to gain control of the commercial side of Formula One. Mosley came up with the solution in order for the FIA to retain its sporting management role and Ecclestone to retain his commercial role. Over the same period, Mosley was attempting to delay European legislation banning tobacco advertising.
At this time all leading Formula One teams carried significant branding from tobacco brands such as Rothmans , West , Marlboro and Mild Seven. The Labour party had pledged to ban tobacco advertising in its manifesto ahead of its General Election victory , supporting a proposed European Union Directive. Mosley argued that the proposed legislation was illegal by EU rules, that Formula One needed more time to find alternative sources of funding and that the prompt introduction of a ban would lead to races being held outside Europe, while the coverage, including tobacco logos, would still be broadcast into the EU.
Motor racing was a world class industry which put Britain at the hi-tech edge. On 4 November the "fiercely anti-tobacco Jowell" argued in Brussels for an exemption for Formula One. Media attention initially focused on Labour bending its principles for a "glamour sport" and on the "false trail" of Jowell's husband's links to the Benetton Formula One team. It was in response to fears that Britain might lose the industry overseas to Asian countries who were bidding for it. The revised directive went into force in June , and banned sponsorship from , with a further three-year extension for "global sports such as Formula One".
On 5 October , the directive was successfully overturned in the European Court of Justice on the grounds that it was unlawful. Although the FIA moved its headquarters out of the EU in , it returned in ; [83] all of the F1 teams remain in Europe, and six are in the UK, compared to seven of eleven at the end of Asked in a interview about his most enduring achievement as president of the FIA, Mosley replied: Despite what NCAP describes as a "strong negative response" from car manufacturers at first, the initiative has expanded, and NCAP says that there has been a clear increase in the safety of modern cars as a result.
In February , Mosley announced his intention to stand again for the presidency in October of that year, saying that if successful this third term would be his last. Mosley was elected to his third term as president of the FIA in In June , Mosley announced that he would step down from his position in October of that year, one year early, saying "I no longer find it either satisfying or interesting to sit in long meetings [ The United States Grand Prix was run with only six cars, after the Michelin tyres used by the other 14 cars proved unsafe for the circuit.
A proposal involving the addition of a temporary chicane to slow cars through the fastest corner of the circuit was suggested but rejected by Mosley. What happened was bad but can be put right.
This is not true of a fatality. It is not entertainment disguised as sport. These were all rejected by the Michelin-shod teams.