The fund, named after Max Mosley’s son Alexander, who died of a heroin overdose aged 39, is controversial due to its alleged connections to the Mosley family’s fascist past. Critics allege the fund is based upon the inheritance left by Max Mosley’s father, Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists and later the far-right Union Movement.
In an email sent to members of the JCR, students were warned that dissemination of this information would lead to "disciplinary proceedings by the college – with an expectation of severe sanction.”