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DARK SECRETS: Oswald mosley - The Real Truth

The Peaky Blinders film is pandering to these populist times – I should know, the Nazi in it is my father

The film-makers would say they’re making drama, not history. But this is not the moment for yet another second world war film with a heroic myth, says author Francis Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself

Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Cable Street: Sharp musical about the East End taking on Oswald Mosley’s fascists

3/5 This second run at Southwerk Playhouse sees Adam Lenon’s social history musical hit its stride

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‘He needs to disappear for a very long time’: has Peter Mandelson finally run out of spin?

Bruised and tainted by his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the Labour peer still has admirers – and the drive to go again

The Guardian - UK

Nigel Farage told to apologise by 26 of his school contemporaries

Open letter to Reform UK leader expresses ‘dismay and anger’ at his response to racism and antisemitism allegations

The Guardian - UK

Nigel Farage’s shifting answers on school-days racism claims – a timeline

Reform UK leader’s responses to allegations of racist and antisemitic behaviour at Dulwich college have varied over time

The Guardian - UK

‘He used to say things like ‘Hitler was right’’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school

A former friend and others who were at Dulwich college with the now Reform UK leader speak of his behaviour

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‘History is repeating itself’: fight against far-right in London’s East End goes on

Eighty-nine years after residents drove Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts from Tower Hamlets, anti-far right coalition is still vital in borough

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Like Jeremy Corbyn and Sophie Ellis-Bextor, I grew up in Woodcraft Folk. Here’s how it changes children’s lives

The leftwing alternative to Scouts turns 100 this year. If Keir Starmer wants to empower Britain’s young people, it has much to teach him, says writer and curator Phineas Harper

The Guardian - UK

Outrageous star Bessie Carter: 'I'm weirdly connected to Nancy Mitford!'

Bessie Carter reveals why the role of author Nancy Mitford in new drama Outrageous was a perfect fit for her.

WhatToWatch

The Kardashians of history: why are we so obsessed with the Mitford sisters?

They were impossibly glamorous, fatally flawed and turned up at every significant moment of the 20th century, but underneath it all is a highly relatable family drama – without the infamous friends

The Guardian - UK

“When he stopped, the hubbub in the studio was like, ‘Oh my god. Oh my god, what’s happening?’”: When Elvis Costello terrified Saturday Night Live by launching into an unplanned song

The 23 year-old Costello drew the ire of Lorne Michaels with the legendary stunt

MusicRadar

Resistance review – a captivating century of protest and photography

Turner Contemporary, MargateMarches, strikes and other acts of defiance covering causes from anti-fascism to the Iraq war are captured in compelling detail in an exhibition conceived by Steve McQueen

The Guardian - UK

The battle of Cable Street is entwined in my family’s history – and its message of hope still resonates

On that day in 1936, members of my Jewish family stood up to the Blackshirts. Their fight against racism inspired our adaptation of The Merchant of Venice, says actor Tracy-Ann Oberman

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Search for memories of day Leeds stood up to Oswald Mosley in 1936

Stand Up to Racism looking for relatives of people who were at Battle of Holbeck Moor, as blue plaque unveiled

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Pride or shame? British history is too complex to be seen in such glib terms

A new survey of social attitudes reveals a healthy scepticism about our past

The Guardian - UK

Archive, 1936: Fascist march on Cable Street stopped after disorderly scenes

5 October 1936 Eighty four arrested and many hurt as a procession led by Sir Oswald Mosley through the heart of London’s Jewish quarter was met and opposed by a huge crowd

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Sefton Samuels obituary

Photojournalist who documented life in north-west England, with subjects ranging from LS Lowry and George Best to bingo players and coalminers

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The truth about this unsolved murder is finally coming to light. Here’s what it reveals about racism in Britain

Kelso Cochrane was stabbed to death in 1959. After 65 years, newly released files show the Met still has questions to answer, says journalist and author Mark Olden

The Guardian - UK

Cable Street review – dazzling musical portrait of a community against fascism

Framing the battle within a 1930s romance and a 2024 walking tour, Adam Lenson’s production has big ballads, hip-hop-ish commentary and high camp

The Guardian - UK

Repentance review – dreamlike satire from Soviet Georgia brings life to Stalinist ghosts

1980s black comedy unravels the brutal legacy of a despot who is as ludicrous as his crimes are appalling

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‘In the face of great evil, you have to stand together’: new stage shows mark historic battle of Cable Street

The East End battle of 1936, when the community united to force back Oswald Mosley’s fascist forces, has inspired two theatre productions

The Guardian - UK

Beatty Orwell obituary

Other lives: Councillor and mayoress whose political influence and volunteering helped shape her part of the East End of London

The Independent UK

Tracy-Ann Oberman: ‘Shakespeare could not avoid the attitude of hatred towards Jews at the time he was writing’

The actor talks to Sarah Crompton about setting ‘The Merchant of Venice’ at the time of Oswald Mosley’s fascists, and her thoughts on trigger warnings

The Guardian - UK

‘Is it antisemitic? Yes’: how Jewish actors and directors tackle The Merchant of Venice

Tracy-Ann Oberman’s Shylock, who has been relocated to 1930s Britain, is inspired by her tough great grandma – while Henry Goodman felt shame after losing himself in Shakespeare’s most notorious character

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