[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Reagan against Jimmy Carter, he goes on, ‘set the stage for the Christian Right’s shocking sacrifice of Christianity on the altar of free enterprise in 2016’. (p. 103) What prepared the way for Trump, however, was the Tea Party movement. This powerful insurgency inside the Republican Party was funded by ‘billionaires like the Coors […]
[PDF file]: […] on Whitehall’s radar. As Stock writes, ‘For the next thirty years various government agencies, including the intelligence services, would turn to him for advice and help’. (p. 103) These included Porton Down, where Sargant was involved in the non-consensual administering of LSD to soldiers. Sargant and his wife appear to have been ‘swingers’ and […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] drugs around 9/11 that would be the end of me. I remember the defeat and fear in the face of Allan Francovich whose film on Pan Am 103 and drugs could be shown in Britain but not this country the last time he contacted me via a cut-out a mutual friend one year before […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Capitalism, published by Bookmarks. Josh Reinstein, Titus, Trump and the Triumph of Israel: The Power of Faith-Based Diplomacy (New York: Gefen Publishing, 2020) pp. 69, 83, 102- 103, 204, 228, 232, 238 58 David Rubin, Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn from Israel (Boca Raton, FL: Shiloh Israel press, 2021) pp. 59, 191. See […]
[PDF file]: Gone but not forgotten . . . UnPresidented: Politics, pandemics and the race that Trumped all others Jon Sopel BBC Books, 2021, £20.00, h/b The Useful Idiot: How Donald Trump Killed the Republican Party with Racism, and the Rest of Us with Coronavirus, And Why aren’t We Done With Him Yet? S V Date Self-published, […]
[PDF file]: […] about the events that have brought this exclusion of Mr. Belokon about, and it does seem extraordinary that a See paragraph 260, at the bottom of page 103 of . 11 conviction not on the merits but based on non-attendance by Mr. Belokon should have this effect. But, as I say, I know nothing […]
