[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 […]
[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., […]
[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
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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. […]
[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 […]
[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]: […] 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]: 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 […]
