Month: June 2020

Our ‘old chums’ BAE systems based over on the Fylde coast have some peculiar friends. We have publicised how they supply arms to the Saudi’s and it’s not too unkind to say that the RSAF would probably stop flying and killing innocent Yemeni

‘Declassified UK’ has this report about soldiers avoiding accountability for killings in Iraq: “Senior army commanders pressured a junior officer to stop an internal investigation into a British war crime in Iraq, writing it off as an “unfortunate incident in war”, a former

If you are a police force needing to hone up your training, who would you turn to. ‘Not the PSNI’! I hear you say but that’s just what the government of Oman did three years ago. The PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland)

‘Give me a child at an impressionable age’ intoned Miss Jean Brodie. She also had a penchant for turning some of her pupils into spies Seems ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ must be required reading in the upper echelons of the British

The British government is breaking the rules over a mandatory inspection regime for factories such as BAE supplying the war effort in Yemen. The report (link below) from ‘Declassified’ shows that: Inspectors last visited an arms factory run by the UK’s largest arms

A British Army SAS man who a British government Minister said should have been investigated for war crimes has died. Brian Baty served in most parts of the British Empire at times when abuses including killings, beating and torture os suspects was perpatrated.

Follow up to our earlier item. The Youtube report (link attached) covers the unveiling of a memorial and planting of a tree in memory of the torture victims and thosed who died at the hands of the British military in the struggle by

Jean Kennedy Smith, the former United States Ambassador to Ireland, has died aged 92. Ambassador Smith was a fervent supporter of the peace process and also concerned to ensure the human rights abuses in Ireland were highlighted. In the mid 1990s when the

The Celtic League main Facebook site has a link to an article in the UK Newspaper ‘The Guardian’ about the destruction of records relating to colonialism and particularly the destruction of documents as Britain shed its Empire and the hiding away of those

The comings and goings of the UK military maritime campaign during the troubles was well documented at the time not least because vessels of the Northern Ireland squadron used to rest up in ports around the Isle of Man. Initially ton Class minesweepers