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Dim Fascist fellow travellers.

Sir Oswald Mosley's Nazi fellow traveller "Blackshirt" movement in pre-war Britain may actually have appreciated being opposed with violence in London's East End; they must have been less happy about intellectual opoosition. The comic stories of P.G. Wodehouse regularly feature the character of Sir Roderick Spode, Baronet (later Lord Sidcup) an aristocratic bully bearing a certain resemblance to Mosley, and leader of a fashionable Fascist movement called the "Black Shorts" (played here for television by actor John Turner). Spode is indeed a bully - but ultimately a figure of fun. What message there might be here for current Nazi wannabees, I cannot imagine. Best regards, JR.