NIck on Macintyre

Lobster Issue

[…] in the killing – of the terrorists. Make no mistake, I am not excusing the crime those hostage takers had clearly committed. They had, themselves, committed unconscionable murder. The response from the SAS team can also be described as ferocious. The five terrorists who died were shot an average of 16 times each; and […]

Parish Notices

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the time.) Having worked on this issue for a long time, it’s hard for me to see it; but from Anthony Frewin’s essay on the Frank Olsen murder of the 1950s, through Simon Matthews’ piece on the US involvement in the ‘pirate’ radio stations of the 1960s, Robert Henderson’s piece on Enron accounting, John […]

NIck on Macintyre

Lobster Issue

[…] in the killing – of the terrorists. Make no mistake, I am not excusing the crime those hostage takers had clearly committed. They had, themselves, committed unconscionable murder. The response from the SAS team can also be described as ferocious. The five terrorists who died were shot an average of 16 times each; and […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] inadequate it really was.’ Former ambassador Craig Murray also commented on the publication of this letter on his blog: ‘It is five years since I published in Murder in Samarkand and this FCO insider account, given to me in 2002 while I was Ambassador in Tashkent: “You’re wondering why we signed up to it? […]

Money laundering in British football

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Supervisory Board of the Kimmel brewery, and also the co-owner in the investment company Maval Aktivi.” Maksim Bakiyev has been convicted in Kyrgyzstan of ordering the attempted murder of the British businessman Sean Daley who was gunned down in a street in Kyrgyzstan in 2006 when acting as a mediator in a dispute about […]

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