Rules of the Game: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley, 1896-1933

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Mosley was critical of Winston Churchill's policy as Chancellor of the Exchequer. After Churchill returned Britain to the Gold Standard, Mosley claimed that "faced with the alternative of saying goodbye to the gold standard, and therefore to his own employment, and goodbye to other people's employment, Mr. Churchill characteristically selected the latter course". [34] Who was Sir Oswald Mosley?". BBC News. 26 August 2019. Archived from the original on 4 September 2020 . Retrieved 22 June 2020. Worst' historical Britons list". BBC News. Archived from the original on 27 May 2018 . Retrieved 8 September 2020.

Amanda K. Hale's novel Mad Hatter (2019) features Mosley as her father James Larratt Battersby's leader in the BUF.

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Mosley was an early supporter of the economist John Maynard Keynes. [24] [25] The economic historian Robert Skidelsky described Mosley as "a disciple of Keynes in the 1920s". [25] Crossing the floor [ edit ] The Liberal Westminster Gazette wrote that Mosley was "the most polished literary speaker in the Commons, words flow from him in graceful epigrammatic phrases that have a sting in them for the government and the Conservatives. To listen to him is an education in the English language, also in the art of delicate but deadly repartee. He has human sympathies, courage and brains." [30]

Ten things you didn't know about Mr Keynes". The Standard. 13 April 2012 . Retrieved 25 January 2022. An injury saw him discharged from active service after the Battle of Loos and Mosley spent the majority of the war worked in desk jobs at the Foreign Office and Ministry of Munitions. 2. He became one of Britain’s youngest MPs Rose Martin (28 April 2018). "House of the week: Perfectly restored, pristine period house in Fermoy". Irish Examiner. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021 . Retrieved 15 October 2021.According to Lady Mosley's autobiography, thirty years later, in 1961, Richard Crossman wrote: "this brilliant memorandum was a whole generation ahead of Labour thinking." [30] As his book, The Greater Britain, focused on the issues of free trade, the criticisms against globalisation that he formulated can be found in critiques of contemporary globalisation. He warns nations that buying cheaper goods from other nations may seem appealing but ultimately ravage domestic industry and lead to large unemployment, as seen in the 1930s. He argues that trying to "challenge the 50-year-old system of free trade ... exposes industry in the home market to the chaos of world conditions, such as price fluctuation, dumping, and the competition of sweated labour, which result in the lowering of wages and industrial decay." [40] Guinness, Jonathan; Guinness, Catherine (1984). The House of Mitford. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-155560-4. Skidelsky, Robert (1994). Politicians and the Slump: The Labour Government of 1929–1931. Macmillan. p.170. The progenitor, and earliest attested ancestor, of the Mosley family was Ernald de Mosley ( fl. 12th century), Lord of the Manor of Moseley, Staffordshire during the reign of King John. The family were prominent landholders in Staffordshire and seated at Rolleston Hall, near Burton upon Trent. Three baronetcies were created, two of which are now extinct (see Mosley baronets for further history of the family); a barony was created for Tonman Mosley, 1st Baron Anslow, brother of the 4th baronet, but also became extinct. [15] [14] Lady Alexandra Naldera Metcalfe, CBE (née Curzon; 20 March 1904 – 7 August 1995 [2]) was the third daughter of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and Viceroy of India, and Lord Curzon's first wife, the American mercantile heiress, Mary Victoria Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston (née Leiter). She was named after her godmother, Queen Alexandra and her place of conception, Naldehra, India. She and her two older sisters were the subjects of a biography by Anne de Courcy in The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters. [3] Early life [ edit ]

a b c d e "Focus: Diana Mosley - The last bright young thing". The Independent. London. 17 August 2003. The Hon Lady Mosley". The Times. London. 13 August 2003. Evelyn Waugh dedicated Vile Bodies to her. In 1914, Mosley started at Sandhurst, but was expelled 6 months later for his behaviour towards another student. His prospects were somewhat salvaged by the outbreak of war in August of the same year. He was commissioned into the Queen’s Lancers and fought on the Western Front. Mosley's 1989 appearance on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs was controversial due to her Holocaust denial and admiration of Hitler. [4] She was also a regular book reviewer for Books and Bookmen and later at The Evening Standard in the 1990s. [5] A family friend, James Lees-Milne, wrote of her beauty, "She was the nearest thing to Botticelli's Venus that I have ever seen". [6] [7] She was described as "unrepentant" about her previous political associations by obituary writers such as the historian Andrew Roberts. [8] [9] [6] Early life [ edit ]The BBC Wales-produced 2010 revival of Upstairs Downstairs, set in 1936, included a storyline involving Mosley, the BUF and the Battle of Cable Street.

Sihvonen, Maija (2008). "Modern and Anti-Modern Elements in the Discourse of the British Union of Fascists" (PDF). p.14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 February 2021 . Retrieved 17 November 2019. A sarcastic commentary by Canadian human-rights activist and Telegraph columnist Mark Steyn appeared in the same issue. Entitled Aside from the Hitler thing, Diana was the best kind of girl, Steyn described her unwavering allegiance to Hitler and fascism as that of "a silly kid." [44] An equally "indulgently dismissive attitude" of her opinions was seconded in the Sunday edition in an interview with her stepson Nicholas Mosley, with whom she had refused to speak for over two decades after the publication of Beyond the Pale, his unfavorable memoir of her husband. [45] In literature [ edit ] Ebert, Roger (24 February 2010). "Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)". RogerEbert.com. Archived from the original on 13 November 2020 . Retrieved 16 December 2022. I don't believe this dictator is intended as a parallel to any obvious model like Hitler or Stalin; he seems more a fantasy of Britain's own National Socialists led by Oswald Mosley. Aged just 21 and with little experience or higher education, Mosley decided to go into politics, running as the Conservative candidate for Harrow in the 1918 general election. He was elected with little opposition and became the youngest member of the House of Commons to take his seat. Mosley, Oswald (1968). My Life (PDF). pp.342–343. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 December 2006.Mosley, Charlotte (2007). The Mitfords: letters between six sisters. London: Fourth Estate. ISBN 978-1-84115-790-0. Rubin, Bret (Autumn 2010). "The Rise and Fall of British Fascism: Sir Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists" (PDF). Intersections Online. 11: 17. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 November 2020 . Retrieved 17 November 2019.