I also have a soft spot for The Mayfair Set. From Curtis' perspective, his account of British magnates trying to revive or hold on grimly to the last vestiges of British empire is condescending towards them, yet you can't help but feel that he sympathises more with them than with the growing force of international finace they were up against. In fact I only just learn that The Trap, Curtis' docu which in large part concerns neoliberalism, shares its exact title with James Goldsmith's book about neoliberalism - James Goldsmith being one of the magnates featured in Mayfair Set and dealt with less than sympathetically, at least on a casual viewing.

So it's fair to say that Curtis' views are nuanced, or at least they have been across the years. I actually just watched the opening of Ep1 of The Living Dead; the first 10 minutes are a dispassionate and unjudgmental recounting of the Nazis' view for rebuilding Germany with their policies, against the backdrop of the disorder the country had descended into. It also essentially lambasts Nuremberg as a show trial. The latter part of course can't help but mention national guilt and the holocaust, but in any case it's a million miles from the kind of genuflecting, performative virtue posturing you have to go through when mentioning nazi history in the mainsteam nowadays.