Year: 2021

Manx Radio has concerns aired here by the Manx Fish Producers Organisation about the current dispute between the UK and France and its potential impact: https://www.manxradio.com/…/brexit-fishing-row-could…/ I had a look at what the media on the other side are saying and looked at

Jane Muthoni Mara was 15 years of age when she was taken from her village in Kenya by the British Security forces in the 1950s. Later at ‘screening centre’ she was subjected to a violent brutal assault. She was one of a number

Daphne Caine MHK who was IOM Children’s Champion before a bust up with former Chief Minister Howard Quayle outlines the case for an independent ‘Children’s Commissioner’. This type is position is established in the countries of the UK and also in Jersey: “Garff

Wales courtesy of the MOD/RAF and QuinteQ is firmly in the business of instant death. Or more accurately death delivered remotely from the skies and controlled from bases many thousands of miles away from their victims. The ‘death business’ in Wales is expanding

Exploitation of migrants on Irish Fishing Vessels is still an issue according to this report by the UK Guardian newspaper. The headline says abuse is ‘exposed’ but it was highlighted by Celtic League over five years ago (see links): “Racist insults, verbal abuse,

More here on the migrant fishermen’s conditions report conducted by Maynooth University with funding from the International Transport Workers Federation (ITWF). The ITWF site has comment and also links to pdfs of the full report: https://www.itfglobal.org/…/new-research-confirms-irish… Our earlier post at this link: https://www.facebook.com/…/a.80637947…/4375675165814544/

Fifty years ago the UK Secretary of State for Defence Lord Carrington approved torture as a means of the UK Security Forces extracting information from detainees. In August 1971 Brian Faulkner (then N Ireland Prime Minister) introduced internment without trial and men detained

It’s the fiftieth anniversary this week of the death of the first members of Cuman na mBan to die in the troubles. Mother-of-four Maura Meehan (31) died along with her sister Dorothy Maguire when soldiers opened fire on a car in which they

Chinese merchant seafarers were, the Liverpool Daily Post reported shortly after the end of WW 2, a “gallant body of men whose service to the Allied cause, through the Merchant Service, is greatly appreciated”. This sense of indebtedness and comradeship was sincerely felt

A new Commission will explore all options for Wales including independence. Although Welsh nationalism has not enjoyed the same meteoric rise as Scottish nationalism recently that has changed. Independence (AUOB) protests attract growing numbers. Meanwhile polls suggest a gradual rise in support for