Still, I can see Richie's attraction for the Mail. Perhaps he's dribbling with longing for the glory days of the classic 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts' headline? Or the comment 'The sturdy young Nazis are Europe's guardians against the Communist danger'.

That Lord Rothermere, he was a proper toff and no mistake. I'll bet Ritchie gets a bit moist when he reads his lordship's editorial on Hitler: 'I urge all British young men and women to study closely the progress of the Nazi regime in Germany. They must not be misled by the misrepresentations of its opponents. The most spiteful distracters of the Nazis are to be found in precisely the same sections of the British public and press as are most vehement in their praises of the Soviet regime in Russia. They have started a clamorous campaign of denunciation against what they call "Nazi atrocities" which, as anyone who visits Germany quickly discovers for himself, consists merely of a few isolated acts of violence such as are inevitable among a nation half as big again as ours, but which have been generalized, multiplied and exaggerated to give the impression that Nazi rule is a bloodthirsty tyranny.'

Nowhere near as bad as those revolting student attrocities, eh?