Tag Archives: Lockerbie

Press launch of Scotland’s Shame

Posted on October 2, 2013 by John Ashton

The press launch of my new book, Scotland’s Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters will be at the Dynamic Earth centre, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh at 10 am tomorrow, 3 October.

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New book – Scotland’s Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters

Posted on September 13, 2013 by John Ashton

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 →

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Information is free but everywhere it is in chains

Posted on July 1, 2013 by John Ashton

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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Geoffrey Robertson QC on Megrahi’s right to silence

Posted on March 15, 2013 by John Ashton

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 →

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Response to Magnus Linklater article

Posted on August 13, 2012 by John Ashton

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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