The View from the Bridge

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[…] Corinne Souza died on 13 25 ‘Was there a deal with Iran over Lockerbie bombing? The West should come clean about who really bombed Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 – we owe it to the victims’ families’ at . Calling this shameless doesn’t quite do it justice. March of lung cancer, caused by […]

A Diplomat’s Day by Geoffrey F. Hancock

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[PDF file]: […] self-consciously bright and overly selfassured statesmen, when combined with gross ignorance, can have fatal effects not just for single individuals but for whole societies and nations.’ (p. 103) This account and the extracts from Hancock’s diary do convey considerable sang-froid on the author’s part; and at the rear of the book there are reproductions […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

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[PDF file]: […] in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline and Drug Connection (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1987) Coleman, L., Trail of the Octopus: The Untold Story of Pan Am 103 (Second edition, Kindle and Nook Publishing, 2010) Cordesman, A H, ‘The Tanker War, 1987-1988’ in Cordesman, A. H., The Iran-Iraq War (Amazone Press, 2003) Dorril, S., […]

Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright

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[PDF file]: The state we are in Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation Sam Bright London: Byline Books, 2023, £14.99, p/b John Newsinger In 2011, the Eton entrance exam paper asked prospective students (12 to 13year-old boys) to draft a speech: The year is 2040. There have been riots in the streets of London after […]

Casa Pia The making of a modern European witch hunt by Richard Webster

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and, in the case of Bryn Estyn, certainly, had more ridicule been applied to the nonsense about satanic child abuse, which was imported in the years before from American Christian circles and took root here in some Christian social workers (who believed in the literal existence of Satan). RR Page 103 Summer 2011 Lobster 61

Thatcher versus the City of London

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Smith (see note 9) p. 98 16 Donald Macdougal, Don and Mandarin (London: John Murray, 1987) p. 248 17 Lawson (see note 1) p. 85 18 Ibid. 103 Winter 2010 M3 as the main monetary measure and suggested that we should allow it to rise in the first half of 1981. In short, Professor […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] crashed in April, killing all aboard. Sikorski’s wife, the former Evening Standard and Spectator journalist Anne Applebaum, was booked in 1988 to fly on the Pan Am 103 flight that came down over Lockerbie. ‘About a week before the flight, however, I postponed my trip simply in order to stay a day longer with […]

The meaning of subservience to America

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] America for Christmas. American military personnel were pulled off the plane. A delegation of South Africans, including foreign minister Pik Botha, were pulled off Pan Am Flight 103 at the last minute’.5 4 Jason Allardyce and Mark Macaskill in ‘US spies blamed Iran for Lockerbie bomb’, in The Sunday Times 16 August 2009. 5 […]

Historical Notes

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[PDF file]: […] Decline of Tory Britain (London: Verso, 2021), pp. 82-3. 16 Paul Johnson and Steven Webb, ‘Explaining the Growth in UK Income Inequality, 1979-88’, The Economic Journal, vol. 103 (1993), pp. 429-435. 17 Charles Woolfson, John Foster and Matthew Beck, Paying the Piper: Capital and Labour in Britain’s Offshore Oil Industry (London: Mansell, 1997), pp. […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

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[PDF file]: […] key witness in the trial, it having been determined that a timer manufactured by Mebo Electronics had detonated the explosives that had brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988. Careful procedural arguments made by the prosecution underscored that while Bollier was not being charged at that point as either […]

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