In 2014, then Tory prime minister David Cameron told Mail On Sunday readers that Britain “was the country that helped abolish slavery.” This lie has been perpetuated for nearly two centuries. History records that the British slave trade was abolished in 1807. What is scarcely mentioned is that colonial slavery Read more…
In British schools the systematic exploitation and oppression of the Irish people over eight centuries is ignored. Ireland has been subject to conquest and reconquest by its English neighbour since Norman times. The rise of capitalism in England gave these conquests a savage character. It was the English Revolution of Read more…
Winston Churchill is venerated by liberals and conservatives alike as a national hero. He is revered as a defender of democracy and as the man who single handedly beat Hitler. Such is the mythology surround- ing him that in 2002 he was voted ‘The Greatest Briton of all Time’. But who Read more…