The day the RUC broke heads in the world’s living-rooms

The filming of RUC violence towards civil rights marchers 40 years ago today could have had a radically different outcome.

Does history turn more than we imagine on who was in the right place at the right time or in the wrong place at the wrong time? No doubt there are deep underground streams of historical cause and effect, but where and when these waters ebb or break can often be determined by ...