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... Lockerbie, 1988 Megrahi – You Are My Jury: The Lockerbie Evidence John Ashton Edinburgh: Birlinn (www.birlinn.co.uk/), 2012, £14.99 W ithin days of the death of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi in May, Scottish First Secretary Alec Salmond had refused international appeals for an independent inquiry into the 1988 Lockerbie bombing for which the Libyan had been convicted 11 years earlier. The plea – made by Kate Adie, Desmond Tutu, Terry Waite, Tam Dalyell and the father of one of the Lockerbie victims, Jim Swire, among others – claimed the 'perverse judgment' had left the Scottish criminal justice system a 'mangled wreck ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 31 - 07 Jun 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-lockerbie-1988.pdf
... little attention is being paid to the possibility of Scottish independence. Coverage of day-to-day politics remains focussed on speculation about the outcome of the 2015 General Election, with a basic assumption that the UK as we know it will remain intact. This may be an accurate reading of the situation, and it may transpire that Alex Salmond has overplayed his hand. The debate, though, about the referendum and the arguments now being marshalled by the 'No' campaign are fascinating. In February, Sir Nicholas MacPherson, the Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury, gave formal written advice to ministers about whether – in the aftermath of an independence vote – Scotland should be allowed to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 21 - 26 Aug 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-apocryphylia.pdf
... . ' Perhaps Ms Bertin, and even Mr Cameron, might have been called to offer their own view of Dr Fox's judgement had the CPS decided to prosecute Mr Werrity. Alex and Rupert do a deal There can be little surprise that the SNP, heavily reliant on the editorial support of Rupert Murdoch, has been steered by leader Alex Salmond through a U-turn over nuclear weapons and NATO membership.2 3 The idea that News Corp would tolerate a governing party wobbly on close relations with the United States and its NATO establishment is about as remote as believing that even one of Murdoch's hundreds of titles and channels world-wide would fairly report opposition to the Iraq War ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 16 - 28 Jan 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-tittle-tattle.pdf
... careful how you vote' and stated that she was 'very worried'. Some might consider that in doing this she crossed the narrow line from a position of impartiality to taking a partisan stance....seeing her duty as upholding the status quo rather than being the servant of democratic choice. Why would she do this? Alex Salmond was, after all, a beacon of moderation, favouring the Queen remaining Head of State in an independent Scotland and Scotland remaining within the EU, NATO and the Commonwealth. Her opposition to any change at all might puzzle some, until the nuances of what was being suggested by Salmond and the SNP are considered. Yes, they ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 07 Apr 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-apocryphilia.pdf
... been formed and bedded down. He did so on 31 December 2011. Nine days earlier, in a kind of exit interview for a top person, he was quoted in the press as saying that the major challenge facing the government in the immediate future was 'to keep our kingdom united'; i.e . to head off Alex Salmond and the SNP. O'Donnell moved to House of Lords and is politically active. In the spring of 2012 he promoted a former work colleague of his, Siobhain Benita, as an Independent candidate in the London Mayor elections. She gained 3.8 % of the vote, more than the amount separating Johnson and Livingstone. I wonder ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 26 Jul 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-running-britain.pdf
... ://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34679496>. 89 I am particularly impressed with Alex Salmond's doppelganger, pictured at <http://blogs.new.spectator.co.uk/2015/03/wanted-nigel- farage-lookalike/>. Given that Mr Salmond sometimes travels under a false identity, supposedly for security purposes, one has to wonder whether the thought of employing a 'decoy' has ever occurred to him. See <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics- 34442262>. schemes being hatched even now. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 24 May 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster71/lob71-holding-pattern.pdf
