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CONSERVATIVES BACK FAR RIGHT GOVERNMENT OF VICTOR OBAN [ 12 September 2018 ] On this day in 2018 Conservative MEPs, representing Britain’s largest political party, were among a small minority in the European Parliament to back the far right Hungarian government of Victor Oban, during a crucial vote.  Since he was elected prime minister in…

THE LORD MAYOR OF CORK DIES ON HUNGER STRIKE IN BRIXTON PRISON [25 October 1920 ] Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork, died at 5.40 am on Monday 25 October 1920 on the seventy fourth day of his hunger strike at Brixton prison.  His biographer, Francis Costello, remarked that the MacSwiney’s ‘solitary protest would…

LABOUR GOVERNMENT APPROVES USING DEPLETED URANIUM IN AMMUNITION [ 22 January 1979 ] On 22 January 1979, the Labour Cabinet almost unanimously approved the use of depleted uranium in anti-tank ammunition.  Please feel welcome to post comments below.  If you have any questions please email alisdare@gmail.com © 2020 Alisdare Hickson All rights reserved

DISBELIEF AMONG TROOPS THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE TO DIE FOR FALKLAND ISLANDS [ 1 May 1982 ] Labour MP Tony Benn published a letter, although withholding the name, from the fiancee of a marine on the British task force which had been sent to seize the remote Falkland Islands, with a tiny population of some…

BRITISH TROOPS SUMMARILY EXECUTE TORTURED MAU MAU SUSPECT KVENJI NJOKA 19 June 1953 – Five days earlier, on 13 June, Captain Gerald S.L. Griffiths had led a company of British soldiers into the Chuka region of Kenya to flush out Kenyan Mau Mau rebels hiding in the forests.  Two Mau Mau suspects, Njeru Ndwega and Kvenji…