What happened on Alderney during the war? A government ‘Review into the number of prisoners who died on Alderney during the Nazi occupation’ has been greeted with headlines about ‘Britain's Holocaust Island’ – allegations of cover-up and conspiracy, and counterarguments that outsiders are making trouble for no good reason.
Eric Pickles, the Conservative peer and former government minister who announced the inquiry, has even been accused of ‘wokeism’, which must be a new one for him. His team of 11