[PDF file]: The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act Garrick Alder ‘Freedom of Information. Three harmless words. I look at those words as I write them, and feel like shaking my head till it drops off my shoulders. You idiot. You naïve, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop. There is really no […]
Who was who? The newly published Oxford Dictionary of National Biography not only surveys the lives of the great and the good, but also includes accounts of individuals in the murkier fields of human endeavour. Over fifty spies are listed, for example, including historical figures such as ‘Parliament Joan’ (c1600-1655?) and ‘Pickle the Spy’ (c1725-1761). … Read more
[…] although I do not minimise this. In Iraq, we have estimates of deaths in the region of 300,000600,000 since 2003 ()and, in Afghanistan, bombing raids still kill civilians.()If we are at war with insurgents, then the fear of the authorities that they might strike at us is simply the reflection of the dreadful […]
[…] The New Republic; Princeton historian of Islam, Bernard Lewis; Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Reagan’s UN ambassador and leading AEI figure; Claire Sterling, the promoter of the KGB plot to kill the Pope story in the Reader’s Digest and elsewhere, and Norman Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary magazine and his wife, Midge Decter, executive director of the […]
[…] very distraught telephone call during which Peachman informed me that he was “In terrible trouble”. He also stated that he could not go on and intended to kill himself. At this time I assumed Peachman’s state of mind was caused as a result of an investigation carried out into the affairs of IPI. Breaches […]
Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di Terry Hanstock This update follows on from my earlier articles in Lobster 38 and Lobster 39 Never was the old adage ‘She’s dead but she won’t lie down’ more apt than when applied to the late Diana, Princess of Wales. Although she died almost nine years … Read more
[…] the SAS, although a few are ex-Marine Commandos. (The Phoenix (Dublin) 30th March 1984) * * * The SAS trained 50 Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) men to ‘kill on sight’. The squad is known as Echo Four Alpha (or E4A), sometimes working within special support units. Constable John Robinson, acquitted of the murder of […]
[…] knoll;(8) but recently I heard a whisper, allegedly sourced to a major Mafia figure, that to muddy any investigative waters there were three teams working independently to kill Kennedy, none of which knew about the other two. Whether or not the account of the source of this is true, it is an hypothesis which […]
[…] was running the UDA’s assassins against the IRA – and successfully, too. In effect, in the late 1980s the British state decided that while they could not kill the IRA openly (the late Alan Clark MP’s solution: let the SAS loose), they could get the Prods to do it for them. A case can […]
[…] 1941, when they were scrambled in a pair of Hurricanes to attack a single German plane over Southern Scotland. Just as they were closing in for the kill, with a Messerchmitt Bf110 fighter-bomber trapped in their gunsights, RAF Fighter Command inexplicably called off their attack. Both pilots remained convinced for the rest of their […]
