Monthly Archives: January 2014

Expanded version of my Scottish Review response to Magnus linklater

Earlier this month, together with other supporters of the ‘Lockerbie bomber’, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, I found myself accused in the Scottish Review of being an obsessive conspiracy theorist, impervious to fact or reason. The article’s author, The Times columnist Magnus Linklater, … Continue reading

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My response to Magnus Linklater’s Scottish Review Article

The Scottish review has just published my response to Magnus Linklater’s earlier article. I shall be posting an expanded version on this blog shortly. Please note that there is an editing mistake in the sentence: For reasons I am about … Continue reading

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The Crumbling Lockerbie Case

The following article by me has just been published under the above headline on the Consortium News website.   A quarter century ago, the Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, killed 270 people and later was pinned on a … Continue reading

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Private Eye rumbles Haselnut and The Ecologist

The latest issue of Private Eye carries the following article about everyone’s favourite Lockerbie crank Patrick ‘clinically sane’ Haseldine. Most hacks and news organisations have long blocked or junked rants from the Lockerbie-bombing conspiracy theorist Patrick Haseldine. Not so the … Continue reading

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New Private Eye article

The following article has been published in the latest issue of Private Eye (no. 1357). It was prompted by Magnus Linklater’s front page article in the Scottish edition of The Times, which was published on 21 December under the headlines … Continue reading

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Embedded video of Channel 4 news item

Here is the Channel 4 News report, broadcast on 20 December, which I co-produced with reporter Julian Rush.  

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