The British Gazette

Above is the original British Gazette, No.s 1 to 8. Published by HMSO. LARGER IMAGE
The British Gazette was a short-lived British newspaper published by the Government during the General Strike of 1926. The strike lasted ten days, from 3rd to 13th May 1926. It was called by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in an unsuccessful attempt to force the government to act to prevent wage reduction and worsening conditions for the coal miners. One of the first groups of workers called out by the Trades Union Congress when the general strike began on 3rd May were the printers, and consequently most newspapers appeared only in very brief and truncated form. The Government therefore decided to replace them with an official publication which was printed on the presses of The Morning Post, a right-wing but traditionalist paper which later merged with The Daily Telegraph. Winston Churchill, then Chancellor of the Exchequer but formerly a journalist, took the initiative and guided the British Gazette’s editorial line.
The Gazette first appeared on the morning of 5th May. It was highly patriotic and condemnatory of the strikers, becoming a very effective means of propaganda for the government. The TUC produced its own paper, the British Worker (subtitled Official Strike News Edition) to attempt to counter it. The Gazette easily outsold its rival, with circulation rising from more than 200,000 copies for the first issue to more than 2,000,000. The Gazette ran to only eight editions before the strike collapsed. Churchill enjoyed his time on the Gazette but did not take it entirely seriously. On 7th July 1926, at the end of a debate in Parliament on whether to grant the money to pay for the British Gazette, Churchill responded to Labour MP A. A. Purcell’s speculation about what would happen in future general strikes with the words “Make your minds perfectly clear that if ever you let loose upon us again a general strike, we will loose upon you – another British Gazette.”
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The decision to revive the British Gazette was taken in the light of two serious developments:

The first has been the progress of the “human induced/anthropogenic global warming”. This started as a hypothesis put forward by a few. It has now developed a momentum of its own, so much so that a large portion of the world’s literate population regard it as the settled scientific consensus – which it is not. This alone would not be so serious were it not for the very serious consequences “human induced/anthropogenic global warming” is going to have on us. As always, it is the poor in the third world who will suffer most from this folly.

The second has been the steady transformation of this formerly independent sovereign state that was the United Kingdom of Great Britain into a vassal suzerain state of the European Union. This process soon to be made complete by the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.

Please Note: The British Gazette is an independent publication and is not attached to any political party.

The British Gazette’s proprietor is Peter Henry Rogers, a U.K. Sole Trader trading as “The British Gazette”. Mr. Rogers is a political activist who was the founder of the “Drive The Flag” campaign to have the Union Flag allowed on British car number plates and is a member of the British Weights and Measures Association.

Peter Henry Rogers trading as “The British Gazette” can be contacted at the postal address: 22 Kingswood Gardens, Leeds. LS8 2BT West Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom or by telephone on: +44(0)113-293-7437 Read the rest of this entry »