“No rising star in the political firmament ever shone more brightly than Oswald Mosley, none promised more surely to soar to the heavens – and none fell to earth with so deadening a thud. Never were such rich talents so wretchedly squandered. Never did success turn to failure so inscrutably.”

—  Oswald Mosley

Michael Foot, Mosley: the rise and fall of a would-be Caesar, Evening Standard, 22 October 1968.

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