British Army

Times journalist, John Chartres, feted as an independent witness to the nail bombs allegedly carried by young Gerald Donaghey, was in fact a retired British Army major. His track record speaks for itself.

This declassified NIO file reveals some disturbingly cavalier attitudes towards civilians on the part of civil servants. It concerns drivers who were forced, usually by the IRA, to drive ‘proxy bombs’ to their targets. This was a deeply controversial and terrifying practice and an egregious breach...