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British duplicity 100 years ago that has denied Palestinian human rights to this day
Britain still fails to acknowledge its complicity in Israel's denial of the Palestinian right to national self-determination.
Nothing learned in 100 years: sowing a million poppies in a refugee camp
Participating in remembrance without the application of lessons learnt is insulting, tokenistic, self-gratifying and hollow.
Theresa May wants British people to feel 'pride' in the Balfour Declaration. What exactly is there to be proud of?
In 1917, the BalfourDeclaration initiated a policy of British support for Israel which continues to this very day, to the detriment of the occupied Palestinians and those driven from their land.
I died in hell - they called it Passchendaele
Dismembered soldiers sucked into cesspools of mud. Shattered tree trunks and the waft of poison gas hovering over the wounded who were awaiting their fates on the scarred soil of Flanders Fields.
Passchendaele's pointless butchery: was it worth it?
Some military specialists now argue the battles of Passchendaele were not only necessary but achieved some key Allied goals that were worth the cost.
Passchendaele: when commanding officers wept publicly at the horrors their soldiers endured
Soldiers no longer thought of the enemy as wearing a uniform. It was the mud, deep and devouring. Back in England, rhetoric was directed at the “evil Hun”; no one mentioned the mud.
Why was hugely popular women's football banned after World War One?
Women's football was huge during World War One, drawing crowds of 53,000 even after the war had ended. So why did it disappear so dramatically, asks Gemma Fay.
Heathcote Williams RIP
Heathcote Williams, poet, playwright, essayist, lyricist, actor, artist, magician, political activist and much else besides, died 1 July 2017
