If someone offers to give you money, no strings, nothing illegal, and, say, you’re an overstretched educational body or an impoverished college desperate for funds, do you just accept it with outstretched arms with a big ‘thank you very much’ and an even bigger smile? Or do you check the provenance of the cash first and make a moral judgment on how that money was acquired, from whence it came, how it was produced? Even though you’re broke and desperate. This is the dilemma faced by Imperial College Oxford and University College London.

They’ve been given money, lots of it, by the estate of horrible sleazy little late Formula One dude and ALLEGED sexual deviant of a ‘let’s dress up 5 hookers in Nazi regalia and see what happens’ nature, to fill their empty coffers.

But wait! Before we start spending the cash, don’t forget that we now live in Wokeland. A horrible country where any comment, gesture or historical action can be brought up completely out of context and thrust back at the family, heirs, descendants with a J’ACCUSE!!!! and demands for action and compensation because someone’s human rights have been damaged somewhere along the way, or possibly some previously unheard-of gender-configuration has been neglected or offended.

In Moseley’s case though you really don’t need to dig too far. His father was a fucking Nazi. Not just an admirer of Hitler, almost an impersonator. So they cry ‘HOW CAN YOU TAKE THE MONEY WHICH HAS A NAZI HISTORY?!?!’ Yet Oswald Moseley didn’t make that money by selling Jewish body parts, though he probably wouldn’t have minded. He inherited the money. It is ‘old money’, as we do so well in England. The money long pre-dates the boss of the blackshirts by several generations.

One academic (and you can see why he’s an academic because philosophy trumps pragmatism in his world) has stated that this money should not go to Oxford but to Jews and Black groups who were given such a rough ride by the father. But its not on offer to them. And its legal money held in trust. You can’t just steal it and send compensation packages all over the Windrushees and Stamford Hill. Though Imperial College could make ‘donations’ with it if they chose, rather than just refuse acceptance.

It’s the same as the ‘slavery’ issues with ‘philanthropists’ of their day making their fortunes selling human flesh stolen from Africa. They were bad people, as we now know to judge them, but their money is useful. Take it and use it wisely. Don’t build them statues, don’t praise and extol them, but take their money. Call it ‘compensation’ if you like. ‘Bad money’ can help just as many people as ‘good money’. Just send it to me if you don’t want it and we can upgrade Mel’s new car by 100 miles a charge!!!

Happy Monday

A xxxx