21 APRIL

EXPRESS INTERVIEWS HITLER AND BLAMES REDS FOR REICHSTAG FIRE [ 27 February 1933 ] On 27 February 1933,  the Reichstag ( the German parliament ) was set alight. Even today we still do not know for sure who was responsible. Neither German socialists nor communists had ever resorted to such an act of terrorism previously….

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…

HORSE TRADING WITH A TYRANT [ 1 October 2017 ] On this day the Bahrain News Agency announced that earlier the same day Queen Elizabeth had given a three year old prize stallion to Bahrain’s murderous tyrant, King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa. The gift was handed over in a formal ceremony by the British…

“WE STAND NO NONSENSE HERE” – BRITISH OFFICER EXPLAINS MASS EXECUTIONS. [ 26 June 1857 ] On this day in 1857, during the Indian Mutiny, a British artillery officer stationed at Peshawar wrote a report explaining that “in these times of danger and treachery, we don’t bother ourselves about the quirks of law, but hang,…

REBEL SLAVE PLOTTERS SEIZED, HUNG AND THEIR HEADS IMPALED ON POLES [ 25 December 1801 ] About 120 slaves on two Tobago plantations, Bacolet and Belvedere, planned to launch a surprise uprising on Christmas Day evening 1801. A BLEAK FAMINE CHRISTMAS UNDER BRITISH RULE IN IRELAND [ 25 December 1847 ] Historians refer to the…

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…