Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: […] in the Hull North constituency. I ‘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. 26 9 Head of the Aviation […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: How Dare You David Stirling The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS Gavin Mortimer London: Constable, 2022, £25, h/b John Newsinger On Sunday 30 October, the BBC broadcast the first episode of its much trumpeted drama series, SAS Rogue Heroes, with a screenplay by Steven Knight of Peaky […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] we call power?’ This is much more than the anguished grief of the father of Flora, one of the 270 victims of the 1988 Pan AM Flight 103 disaster. The 23year-old medical student had left Heathrow on December 21 to spend Christmas with her American boyfriend. She died when Clipper Maid of the Seas […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] some useful insight into Middle East affairs. One big omission in Sillars’ memoir is Lockerbie. This is particularly striking as the 1988 destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 is, after devolution and the Dunblane massacre, probably the biggest Scottish story of his lifetime. The subsequent trial of two Libyans remains a controversial issue4 with […]