Irish American William Joyce, the fascist propagandist famed for his radio broadcasts beginning with "Germany calling, Germany calling," was born on April 24, 1906. William Joyce, better known as Lord ...

Unlike Germans, Britons may listen to any foreign broadcast they can tune in. To reach British ears with the Nazi side of World War II, Germany broadcasts in English, sometimes as much as eight hours ...

This story was written by Angela's mother, Dobbie Dobinson: It was 1936. I was just 16 and looking for a bit of excitement, so I was quite interested when I was invited to a Blackshirt meeting. I was ...

On September 18, radio critic Jonah Barrington – pen name of Cyril Carr Dalmaine – was the first to brand the anonymous plummy voice he heard with the nickname “Lord Haw-Haw”. He wrote scathingly: “I ...

LONDON – George Galloway was branded “Lord Haw-Haw” yesterday as a former minister called for an inquiry into the latest allegations about his dealings with Saddam Hussein. Britain’s former Foreign ...

On this day in 1945, William Joyce - better known as ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ - was convicted of high treason and sentenced to death. As one of the most infamous and hated men in Britain, it was perhaps only a ...

The last time a British court convicted someone of treason the country had just survived the existential threat of Hitler’s Germany. William Joyce, dubbed "Lord Haw-Haw" for the affected accent he ...

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Lord Haw-Haw announced that he was going to call out names of POWS. And he said “I’ll give you messages. And if any of you listeners know any of them, and the people who are not listening, you could ...

Mani Shankar Aiyar has been a diplomat, a parliamentarian, a union minister and, above all, an interesting writer and speaker. Aiyar’s latest offering, Achhe Din? Ha! Ha! is a collection of his recent ...