16 FEBRUARY

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…

CHURCHILL BLAMES THE BOLSHEVIK TERROR IN RUSSIA AND EUROPE ON JEWS [ 8 February 1920 ] On 8 February 1920, writing in the Illustrated Sunday Herald, Secretary of State for War and future Prime Minister Winston Churchill alleged the Jews could neatly be divided into ‘good and bad Jews.’ Please feel welcome to post comments…

BRITISH TREASURY HALTS RELIEF TO FAMINE STRUCK IRISH PEASANTS [ 17 July 1846 ] On this day in 1846, Charles Trevelyan, Assistant Secretary of the British Treasury, on learning of the ‘very unfavourable’ reports on the potato harvest’,  wrote to Sir Randolph Ralph, head of Ireland’s Relief Commission, warning him that ‘the only way to…

MILITARY COURTS ALLOWED TO ORDER THE FLOGGING OF CHILDREN [ 17 February 1939 ] On 17 February 1939, the British run mandate government in Palestine introduced a law allowing military courts to order the whipping of children ‘with a light rod or cane or birch,’ of up to twenty four strokes. CALLAGHAN – ‘I WON’T…

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…

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…