17 APRIL

WHY ARE WE KILLING THE VIETNAMESE AND COLLABORATING WITH THE JAPANESE ? 6 December 1945 – A letter sent to Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Secretary, from a group of British soldiers stationed in Vietnam is published at the bottom of page six of the Manchester Guardian under the prosaic headline “British in Indo-China.”.  It disclosed…

BRITISH FLEET BOMBARDS ALEXANDRIA KILLING AND INJURING 2000 11 July 1882 – At 7 am a British fleet of eight warships began the bombardment of Alexandria, after Egypt’s government refused to accept Britain’s supposed right to oversee and manage the country’s budget, which included huge payments in debt to the Suez Canal Company, in which…

OFFICER IN KENYA’S COLONIAL POLICE COMPLAINS OF A CULTURE OF COVERING UP ABUSES AND TORTURE [ 23 December 1954 ] Duncan McPherson, Assistant Commissioner of Kenya’s colonial police, was a rare exception to the norm of complete British indifference to the suffering of ordinary Kenyans. TONY BLAIR ACCEPTS HOLIDAY HOSPITALITY FROM DICTATOR MUBARAK [ 23…

Inglorious moments deleted from mainstream history – A daily reminder of how Britain has always acted ruthlessly to deter dissent and democracy. “The reason why the sun never sets on the British Empire is because God doesn’t trust the British in the dark“ — Anon Please return regularly as I continue to post more day…

CHURCHILL ON THE EXISTENTIAL THREAT OF BARBARIAN BREEDING AND ATOM BOMBS. On 23 October 1938 the News of the World published an article by Winston Churchill, now widely acknowledged to be among the most admired Britons in history,  entitled “What Other Secrets Does the Inventor Hold ?”  In it he laments the invention of contraception,…

BRITISH INTRODUCE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN CYPRUS At 17.00 GMT on Saturday 26 November 1955 the newly appointed British governor of Cyprus, Field Marshal Sir John Harding, announced, during a short statement on radio, draconian emergency laws in order to crush a growing insurgency against British rule.  The death penalty could now be applied for…