Troubles veterans welcome South Africa-style truth commission that would make British soldiers exempt from prosecution over killings - but amnesty proposals spark backlash on both sides of the Irish Border
New statute of limitations so no one can be charged over incidents up to the 1998 Good Friday agreement
Block on trials linked to the Troubles would apply to both IRA terrorists and veterans of the Armed Forces
Government will look at truth and reconciliation model similar to that used in post-Apartheid South Africa
Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis is now in discussions about building a truth discovery museum
The hopes of the friends of Neapolitan liberty, who did not suffer their wishes to influence their conclusions, or outstrip their judgment, rested principally on the favourable nature of the country for defensive warfare, and on the expectation that, though the Austrians could not be defeated in the field, they might be harassed and worn out by desultory hostilities. More, much more, was certainly expected from the spirit of the people, that they appear to have shown themselves disposed to accomplish. Yet with all our contempt for their dastardly submission to their invaders, we must admit that there is a great lack of authentic intelligence from that quarter, and that matters may not be quite so nearly settled as the Austrian accounts would have us to believe. Granting however, that we have at present but little to hope for from Italy, which is favourable to the progress of liberty, there are plenty of demonstrations that the people will no longer consent to be governed upon the pri
Two veteran have been acquitted of killing IRA commander Joe McCan in 1972
Landmark decision has led prosecutors to re-examine evidence involving ex-soldiers dating back to 1972
At least 16 Army veterans facing charges over shootings during the Troubles will have their cases reviewed after landmark trial collapsed
Government now planning to make British soldiers and terrorists exempt from new prosecutions
Proposal to tackle legacy issues will be outlined in Queen s Speech next week
8.7.3
As the nineteenth century neared its end, so too did the greatest British life of all. Queen Victoria celebrated her Diamond Jubilee in June 1897, just after her seventy-eighth birthday. Few could recall Britain before Victoria, so epic had been her reign. She had emerged from her deep unpopularity of the 1870s and early 1880s to become the sentimental incarnation not just of the British nineteenth century, when it had finally achieved greatness as the world’s leading power, but of the whole British past.
A great pageant was set for June 22, when the Queen would make a progress to St. Paul’s Cathedral. A committee chaired by the Prince of Wales and including Regy Brett, the future Lord Esher whose instinct for the pompous was as fine as his organizational skills had been planning the event in meticulous detail since March. Brett was charged with arranging an opera gala (which the Queen would not attend); for her carriage to stop on the procession so a child could be prese