Cruel Britannia: a secret history of torture
Ian Cobain (Portobello Books, £18.99) ISBN 9781846273339 Many years ago, when the UK prime minister of the day, Margaret Thatcher, was eager to proclaim the British authenticity of the North of Ireland, she pronounced it to be ‘as British as Finchley’, her own constituency in England. She could as easily have said the same of … Read more