The same 'dear old Daily Mail' that backed Mosley and the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s, and which, in 1934, ran an editorial headed 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts'?
It's always been a reactionary paper which plays on the fears of 'Middle England'. Alongside the cruder, less-polished Daily Express, it carries a heavy responsibility for driving people into the arms of the BNP, even if its policy today is ostensibly anti-BNP.