Guardian.co.uk – Alan Henry – The Guardian
Max Mosley puts on an act of self-effacing modesty, but it cannot conceal the patrician gloss he inherited from his father, the British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, particularly when it comes to fighting his own corner.
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“It’s laughable,” he said. “This is the 21st century. Leave me out of it, suppose you’ve got somebody running a big company who’s brilliant at what he does. He’s obviously the best man for the job and there is no other person. Suddenly the gutter press discover that he’s a transvestite. As far as I’m concerned, if I were a shareholder in that company, I’d say ‘so what?’. So long as he doesn’t go dressed as a woman into the headquarters and frighten the secretaries, what does it matter? It doesn’t matter. So long as it doesn’t affect what he actually does.”