Lyra McKee’s Angels With Blue Faces. A Story Ignored
The fatal wounding of the Irish journalist Lyra McKee during an indiscriminate New IRA gun-attack on PSNI officers and armouredContinue Reading
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The fatal wounding of the Irish journalist Lyra McKee during an indiscriminate New IRA gun-attack on PSNI officers and armouredContinue Reading
The Glenanne Gang was a state-backed terrorist group which operated in the United Kingdom’s embattled legacy colony on the islandContinue Reading
The news that the Reverend Ian Paisley, the founder of the hardline Democratic Unionist Party and several associated paramilitary groupings,Continue Reading
The last few days has seen the publication of another tranche of heretofore secret government documents under the National ArchivesContinue Reading
During the height of the conflict in the north-east of the country it was not unknown for the British ForcesContinue Reading
A couple of worrying developments to note this week in terms of individual freedoms, particularly as they relate to the internet.Continue Reading
The British investigative journalist and author, Ian Cobain, has published a new book examining the United Kingdom’s post-WWII record of covert governmentContinue Reading
The United Kingdom’s state intelligence agencies have been given the green light to continue their mass spying operations around the world followingContinue Reading
While the debate continues in Britain over the motives of murderer Thomas Mair, the killer of Labour MP Jo Cox, hisContinue Reading
With informed observers, including lawyers, journalists and politicians, already predicting a whitewash there seems little hope that Britain is ready to faceContinue Reading
On the afternoon of the 17th of May, 1974, as rush-hour commuters made their way through Dublin’s city-centre, three car-bombs explodedContinue Reading
In October of 1989 Britain’s left-leaning current affairs magazine, the New Statesman, published a four-page exclusive revealing the successful penetration of the espionage andContinue Reading
Well it didn’t take long for John McDonnell, the finance spokesperson for the UK Labour Party, to walk back from hisContinue Reading
Just a quick heads-up for those who have access to the series “Twentieth Century British History” from the Oxford Journals.Continue Reading
Sometimes I do wonder if the dozens of Irish and British journalists who spent most of their careers loftily dismissingContinue Reading
The Kincora Boys’ Home scandal represents one of the darker aspects of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland during the lateContinue Reading