The Vice of Kings. Jasun Horsley

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      THE VICE OF KINGS

      How Socialism, Occultism, and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse

       Jasun Horsley

       AEON

      First published in 2019 by

      Aeon Books Ltd

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      Copyright © 2019 by Jasun Horsley

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      ISBN-13: 978-1-91159-704-9

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      “In every cry of every Man,

      In every Infant's cry of fear,

      In every voice: in every ban,

      The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.”

      —William Blake, “London”

      “One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”

      —Victor Hugo, History of a Crime

      Tomy brotherandmy father.

      Andto those whocame before.

       CONTENTS

       COCK-UP OR CONSPIRACY? (AUTHOR'S NOTE)

       INTRODUCTION

       Glamor vice

       PART I: OCCULT YORKSHIRE: FABIAN FAMILY SECRETS AND JIMMY SAVILE'S BRITAIN

       CHAPTER I

       The Grandfather: Alec Horsley, Northern Dairies, the Fabian Society

       CHAPTER II

       A brief history of Fabianism: co-opting the left and right

       CHAPTER III

       Havelock Ellis, Lolita, and the sexual child

       CHAPTER IV

       Progressive politics and witchcraft: Brazier's Park, order of Woodcraft, Common Wealth

       CHAPTER V

       Progressive schools: Abbotsholme, Theosophy, Wicca, Grith Fyrd

       CHAPTER VI

       Sex, drugs, rock & roll, and Dandies: Marianne Faithfull, the Stones, Tom Driberg, and LSE

       CHAPTER VII

       Food control, world control: Suez Crisis, Northern Dairies, Marks & Spencer

       CHAPTER VIII

       Mass observation and dance halls: Jimmy Savile's beginnings

       CHAPTER IX

       Evolutionary theory and social engineering: Richard Acland's Common Wealth

       CHAPTER X

       The Gates of Hell: MKULTRA, Robert Graves, William Sargant, and Wasson's Magic Mushroom

       CHAPTER XI

       A Scientific Outlook: Congress for Cultural Freedom, Bertrand Russell, William Empson, and the New Criticism

       CHAPTER XII

       Tentacles across the ocean: Edward House, Woodrow Wilson, the Council on Foreign Relations

       CHAPTER XIII

       Jimmy's Kingdom: LSE, NHS, and the beginnings of psychiatric social work and child care

       CHAPTER XIV

       Strategy of wolves: UK child care system as sex abuse network

       CHAPTER XV

       Child abuse as sex magick and sexual research: Aleister Crowley, Margaret Mead, Alfred Kinsey

       CHAPTER XVI

       World process: Kinderladen, Paedophile Information Exchange, and Labour