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New book – Scotland’s Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters
My new book Scotland’s Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters will be published by Birlinn on 3 October. It features a remarkable foreword by Dr Jim Swire. The advance blurb says: The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the small … Continue reading
Information is free but everywhere it is in chains
On 18 February this year I sent the following request to the Crown Office press office, which forwarded it to the CO’s freedom of information unit: I am writing about the Lockerbie bombing and would be grateful if the Crown … Continue reading
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Tagged crown office, Feraday, freedom of information, henderson, John Logue, Lockerbie, Megrahi, PT/35b, RARDE, Watson McAteer, Williamson
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Geoffrey Robertson QC on Megrahi’s right to silence
I have just come across the following passage about the Lockerbie trial in the latest edition Geoffrey Robertson QC’s book Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice (pages 665-6). My comments follow. The importance of the trial was that … Continue reading
New Private Eye article
The latest edition of Private Eye carries the following article: David Cameron and Scottish police and prosecutors hoping to unearth material relating to the 1988 Lockerbie bombing have all left Tripoli empty-handed. Libyan justice minister Salah al-Marghani told the Telegraph … Continue reading
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A tale of two governments
On this, the 24th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing, comes a remarkable story, courtesy of the BBC. It carries the encouraging headline Lockerbie bombing: Libyan government set to release files. The first sentence reads: ‘The new Libyan government in Tripoli … Continue reading
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Wigtown Book Festival
I shall be speaking at the Wigtown Book Festival this Saturday, October 6th, at 12 noon in the Baillie Gifford Marque. Tickets are £8.
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Latest news from Malta
I was interviewed this morning on BBC Good Morning Scotland about the yesterday’s story in the Times of Malta. The interview is available on BBC iPlayer for the next seven days here (UK only). It starts at around 2:09:00. … Continue reading
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Response to Magnus Linklater article
Today’s Scottish edition of the Times contains the following comment piece by Magnus Linklater, with whom I had an exchange of views at the Edinburgh Book Festival event on Saturday. My response to the paper’s letters editor is further below. … Continue reading
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Tagged Edinburgh Book Festival, Hans Köchler, Jim Swire, John Ashton, Lockerbie, Magnus Linklater, Megrahi, the Times
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Jalil and the Sunday Express debunked
The following article appears on the front of today’s Scottish Sunday Express under the ludicrously overblown headline ‘Lockerbie: the truth at last‘. It reports on the latest claims of the leaders of Libya’s National Transitional Council and interim head … Continue reading
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Edinburgh International Book Festival
Dr Jim Swire, Prof Hans Köchler and I shall be doing a keynote session on the opening day of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, entitled Megrahi: A spectacular miscarriage of justice? Saturday 11 August, 11.30 to 12.30, RBS main theatre, Charlotte … Continue reading
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