10 SEPTEMBER

CROMWELL’S TROOPS MASSACRE THE INHABITANTS OF WEXFORD [ 11 October 1649 ] One month earlier [ 11 September 1649 ] Oliver Cromwell, commanding British parliamentary forces in Ireland, had ordered his soldiers to offer no quarter to the royalist garrison at Drogheda, and had slaughtered almost all those who had surrendered, along with many of the town’s…

SLAVES IN JAMAICA REFUSE TO WORK FOR THEIR BRITISH SLAVE MASTERS. 27 December 1831 – a widespread slave strike occurred in the British administered island of Jamaica. A severe drought during the summer had brought increased hardship for the slave population which was compounded by the ruthlessness of the plantation owners, who insisted on their…

HOMES AND SHOPS BURNED DOWN AS A REPRISAL FOR IRA AMBUSH [ 1 January 1921 ] At about 2 pm on New Years Day 1921, several lorry loads of British soldiers and Royal Irish Constabularly arrived in the main street of Midleton in County Cork. . . DOCUMENTS BELATEDLY EXPOSE BRITISH-ISRAELI COLLUSION IN SUEZ CRISIS…

BRITAIN ENDS THE RIGHT OF SUSPECTS TO REMAIN SILENT. [ 20 October 1988 ] On this day in 1988  Britain ended the right of suspects to remain silent as part of its campaign against the IRA. This affected both their right to remain silent during interrogation by police and also when questioned in court.  As…

UK REVERSES ITS POSITION ON GUANTANAMO, ACKNOWLEDGING THIS MIGHT INCREASE THE TERROR THREAT. An internal government memo dated 22 June 2018, leaked to The Daily Telegraph, and marked “Official Sensitive” noted that UK ministers would not oppose the US government sending two British terror suspects, Alexanda Kotey and Shafee El-Sheikh, to Guantanamo,  although at the same…

WALL STREET’S WORRIES AND THE WEATHER CITED AS REASONS FOR THE IRAQ WAR. [ 24 November 2006 ] On this day in 2006, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, who had been British ambassador to the United Nations in the run up to the Iraq war, explained to a conference at Churchill College Cambridge, that Britain had no…