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UK Jan-Apr 1923

- Attempting to take advantage of their new power in the House of Commons, the BCP organises massive strikes across Britain and some of her colonies, to try and secure better workers' rights and higher wages. The government resists this, and so the economic stagnation continues into the spring.

- Using captured artillery ammunition, the IRA destroys the shipyards at Cork, along with two naval ships in port at the time. 300 people are killed. Elsewhere violence is rampant, with grenade attacks and shootings of officials commonplace. Ireland is in turmoil.

- The BBC, the world's first state media service, is formed.

- The ISA carries out several operations aimed at combating growing communist sympathies in Western Europe. Right-wing militias are funded, and communist insurgent cells are exposed to the authorities. - More soldiers are moved to UK holdings in the Caribbean, in light of the conflict going on there.