11 FEBRUARY

THATCHER ADMONISHED FOR COLLUDING WITH APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA [ 16 August 1985 ] On this day in 1985, Archbishop Trevor Huddleston reprimanded British prime minister Margaret Thatcher for propping up apartheid in South Africa. “If you persist in blocking sanctions in the EEC, the Commonwealth and the UN,” he wrote, “Britain will assume the role…

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ENGLAND’S NAZI SALUTE It was the most infamous occasion of English sporting deference to the Nazi regime. On 14 May 1938, the England football team gave the Nazi salute in front of a crowd of one hundred thousand in the German Olympic Stadium.  The most shocking aspect however was not the event, but the press…

  BRITISH COMPANY HELPS EQUIP SADDAM HUSSEIN’S MILITARY. 17th July 1990 – The British government approves exports of machine tools by Matrix Churchill to Iraq, just two weeks prior to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, and knowing that they would be used to manufacture shells and missiles.

BATTLE OF PLASSEY IS FOLLOWED BY THE LOOTING OF BENGAL On 23 June 1757, Colonel Robert Clive, commanding 3,000 troops of Britain’s East India Company, defeated Siraj-ud-Daula, the Nawab of Bengal, at the Battle of Plassey, partly by persuading Mir Jafar, the Nawab’s senior military commander to defect. Please feel welcome to post comments below. …

SIX CIVILIANS SHOT DEAD BY BRITISH TROOPS IN WEST BELFAST [ 9 August 1971 ] On this day in 1971, six civilians varying in age from 19 to 50 years, including Father Hugh Mullan, a Catholic priest who was trying to help a wounded man and Joan Connolly, a 45 year old grandmother, were shot…