Britain has deployed its armed forces for combat over 80 times in 47 countries since the end of the Second World War, in episodes ranging from brutal colonial wars and covert operations to efforts to prop up favoured governments or to deter civil unrest The British military has used or threatened to use military force […]
Topic: Northern Ireland
By Mark Curtis Declassified UK, 2 May 2020 The UK government’s failure to provide protective equipment to all health staff treating coronavirus victims prompts questions whether ministers are legally culpable for failing to prevent deaths. But UK ministers routinely act with impunity and every prime minister since 1945 has been complicit in deaths abroad. At […]
Documents Prime Minister’s Office, ‘China: Internal Situation‘ (National Archives, PREM 19/257, May-July 1989) Articles Hong Kong ‘Declassified British files show how Beijing tried to stifle 1990s democratic reform in Hong Kong with airport finance negotiations‘ (South China Morning Post, 29 December 2017) ‘Declassified files: UK warned in 1989 it would be “impotent” if Hong Kong […]