[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]: […] 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]: […] 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]: […] 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]: 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 […]
