Angus Mitchell
Articles by Angus Mitchell
2020
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Imperial Warrior
Kennedy Trevaskis was a colonial administrator for the British empire until, in 1964, he was sacked by a Labour minister he sneered at as ‘a…
2019
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World History
Peace to end Peace
In making the case that war is simply humanity’s natural lot, other causes of conflict, such as secret diplomacy, the arms trade, inequality, censorship to…
2018
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World History
Too Dark Altogether
The Congo Free State, a territory in which Belgium’s King Leopold II ran a hugely murderous regime of exploitation at the turn of the twentieth…
2016
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Irish History
One Bold Deed of Open Treason
The trial of Roger Casement took place at the height of the First World War, when the fate of the British empire hung in the…
2013
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Irish History
1916 As Spectacle
In an age when martyrdom is demonised and tagged with notions of fanaticism and people are reluctant to protest for a cause let alone die…
2011
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Secrets And Lies
The claims long made in Irish Republican circles of a shoot-to-kill policy are vigorously denied. Andrew states categorically: “There is no evidence in Security Service…
2009
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Against the Demon
As settlers and administrators spread into the region, the world ended for countless indigenous communities in unreported acts of violence. Vast slave kingdoms were established.…