When the Lights Went Out by Andy Beckett and Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen

Robin Ramsay

Lobster Issue #58 (Winter 2009/2010)

When the Lights Went Out by Andy Beckett and Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen

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"Questioning the official version of events - fanatical Muslims hijacking planes and demolishing buildings - has not proved a prudent career move on either side of the Atlantic."

John Booth (@JohnBooth2017), in "9/11 Attracts Mainstream Critics"

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"The spycops affair should have been one of the biggest scandals in our domestic politics since the end of the Second World War. Instead, it got kicked into the long grass."

Robin Ramsay reviews Kate Wilson's "Disclosure: Unraveling the Spycops Files"

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"Stanley Bonnett was a former Daily Worker copy boy who had survived five Arctic convoys to the USSR. His nemesis as a spy came in 1985 under an Observer headline: 'CND editor passed information to Special Branch'."

Andrew Rosthorn, in "Angles Morts"

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