NIck on Macintyre

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[…] 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 […]

Still thinking about Dallas

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[…] essay cited in note 17. 22 Once again we owe this to the incredibly assiduous John Simkin. See 23 And this may also explain (a) Mary Meyer’s murder and (b) the intense interest of James Angleton in her diary, which he found and suppressed. 24 25 26 On Meyer’s anti-communism see . p. 124 […]

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 […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] months after Blair was re-elected in June 2001. The September 11 attacks were rather like the Cuban missile crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall and the murder of President Kennedy all rolled into one. While in many ways the noughties (up until 2008) represented the continuation of the nineties by other means, the […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] led him to set up a parliamentary inquiry headed by Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Treasury Select Committee.3 Though Sir Desmond de Silva’s review into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane4 found no evidence of an ‘overarching state conspiracy’, he did find plenty of evidence of ‘shocking state collusion’. Quite where ‘collusion’ […]

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