“The anomaly of going to war in your own country was not lost on Harry.” (Harry’s Game, Gerald Seymour, Fontana, London 1975) Airey Neave was killed in March 1979 by a bomb planted beneath his car just outside the Houses of Parliament. The then little known Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) soon claimed responsibility. The … Read more
[…] sees value in this definition, but, ‘as thus defined is itself too narrowly conscious and intentional to describe the deeper irrational movements which culminated collectively in the murder of the President’.(5) For Scott then, parapolitics is ‘only one manifestation of deep politics, all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or not, which are usually […]
[…] the top of the NF’s agenda. Entitled ‘Animal Holocaust’, its main target was the Jews: ‘All the Jews have to do is stop this barbaric and torturous murder of defenceless animals. When they cease the slaughter the NF will cease its campaign. Until then the NF campaign for animal welfare will continue.'(35) Clearly, not […]
[…] pursuing miscarriage of justice cases. Speakers included Don Hale, the journalist who campaigned to clear the name of Stephen Downing, who served 27 years for the 1973 murder of Wendy Sewell in Bakewell; Kevin McMahon of Merseyside Against Injustice, who previously worked for Merseyside Police and later became a detective and Special Branch Officer; […]
Rodney Stich Diablo Western Press, USA, 1994 The first thing to be said is that this is a huge (650 pages), fascinating book; and I recommend it. It is really three stories interwoven. The first section describes the author’s experience of trying to alert the American civil aviation industry, then the politicians and then the … Read more
[…] her down (after the publication of this book) and, unannounced, turned up at her front door. Last November she was extradited to Germany to face conspiracy to murder charges arising from the hijack, but not before Davies had reportedly sewn up a deal for a book and film in collaboration with her. According to […]
[…] carried out by the SAS and other special units in Northern Ireland (and Gibralter). Without a state of war, setting an ambush is just a conspiracy to murder. No declaration of war means killings are legally problematic unless certain special circumstances pertain. Hence, finally, the endless, laughable courtroom accounts — usually at inquests — […]
[…] justice: e.g. the campaigns mounted by Ken Bigley’s family, prior to his execution in Iraq, to secure his release; or that of hotelier John Ward following the murder of his daughter Julie in Kenya. These personal tragedies have been presented in a vacuum, when the reality is that the campaigns organised by the families, […]
A great flood of books about Italian politics recently, and almost none of them willing to answer the question “Why Italy?” Why is Italy’s political culture so firmly based on conspiracy and secrecy? A part of that answer must be Italy’s role as the premier European site of the conflict between indigenous left-wing forces and … Read more
[…] reported in Lobster 4, efforts were being made by Lord Avebury (Eric Lubbock) and the Duke of Norfolk to clear Wallace of the ‘It’s A Knock Out’ murder. Mrs Anne Wallace met her husband Colin whilst she was assistant in Conmower intelligence office of MI6 in Belfast. She is now personal secretary to the […]
