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 […]
Topic: Northern Ireland
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 […]