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ARGENTINE SHIP SUNK OUTSIDE FALKLAND ISLANDS EXCLUSION ZONE, KILLING 323. 2 May 1982 – At 15.57 a British nuclear powered submarine, HMS Conqueror, torpedoed and sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, even though the ship was thirty six nautical miles outside Britain’s declared two hundred nautical mile military exclusion zone around the Falkland Islands and…

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…

WALL STREET’S WORRIES AND THE WEATHER CITED AS REASONS FOR THE IRAQ WAR. [ 24 November 2006 ] On this day in 2006, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, who had been British ambassador to the United Nations in the run up to the Iraq war, explained to a conference at Churchill College Cambridge, that Britain had no…

28 CIVILIANS SHOT DEAD IN ATHENS BY BRITISH ARMED NAZI COLLABORATORS Winston Churchill’s legendary qualities of courage and defiance are often celebrated. It is taken for granted that he was motivated primarily by a moral repugnance to Nazism. But if so it’s difficult to understand his decision in 1944 to release around 12,000 Nazi collaborators…

  THATCHER REFUSES TO DISCUSS NELSON MANDELA’S RELEASE [ 15 July 1988 ] On this day in 1988, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher replied to Bishop Trevor Huddleston, who was asking her to pressure the South African government to release Nelson Mandela.  He had requested that she might meet himself and 25 activists who were…

THE SPECTATOR – ‘NEGROES ARE MADE ON PURPOSE TO SERVE THE WHITES.’ [ 16 September 1865 ] In the 1860s, The Spectator was one of Britain’s leading weekly magazines with a relatively progressive reputation. It had, among other liberal causes, supported the Federalists and the principle of emancipation during the American Civil War. Despite such…