Originally published in the Sunday Times, Sunday August 31, 1986 WARNING: Holidays can damage your health. Psychologists believe that many of the millions of Britons returning to work this week wouldhave been better off staying at the office instead of taking theirannual break. Increasing evidence that holidays can cause harmful stress ratherthan provide welcome rest and […]
Originally published inThe Times, Tuesday July 08, 1986. As at Rome’s Colosseum, Wimbledon’s centre court salutes only those of its gladiators who survive and conquer in their final encounters.A few All-England finalists return, hardened by past battles, andemerge triumphant. Most, though, receive an imperial thumbs-down andare doomed to oblivion in the history of tennis. Ivan Lendl […]
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Paul Martin 20 Dec 2020, 6:00amRevealed: How the FBI tracked down second Lockerbie suspect nicknamed ‘The Ghost’ 05 Dec 2020, 5:00pmLockerbie bombing key witness had history of ‘making up stories’, says CIA handler 20 Jun 2020, 5:00pmMysterious Covid-linked disease ‘no longer expected to be fatal’ in children after treatment breakthrou
Exclusive. American investigators into the culprits behind the Lockerbie disaster are confident they have new evidence incriminating Abuagila Masud, whose extradition they are seeking from a Libyan jail. Though US Attorney General William Barr is poised to announce that Masud is considered to have made or delivered the bomb that destroyed the PanAm plane, his […]
In the coming days the US is set to announce new mass-murder charges over the Lockerbie plane bombing By Paul Martin 20 December 2020 • 6:00am For decades, Abu Agila Mas’ud was such a shadowy and elusive figure that investigators wondered if he should be called “The Ghost”. Yet the FBI eventually tracked down the […]
Exactly thirty-two years after the destruction of PanAm plane over Lockerbie, the United States Justice Department has found evidence that it says will strengthen mass-murder charges against the man they will accuse of constructing and delivering the bomb. At a press conference expected today — Monday – it will reveal some of its secret evidence […]
Exclusive. For decades, Abu Agila Masoud was such a shadowy and elusive figure in the search for the man who made the Lockerbie bomb that some investigators referred to him as The Ghost. Yet, through the unwitting help of East German intelligence, and some fortuitous coincidences, the FBI, the CIA , the Scottish police and a victim’s intrepid brother, […]
By Paul Martin. In one of his final acts as US Attorney-General, William Barr is planning to indict the man he accuses of being the bomb-maker who murdered two hundred and seventy people when PanAm Flight 103 exploded over Scotland. The Lockerbie disaster, which killed all 243 passengers, 16 crew and 11 people on the ground, took […]
The former former US national security adviser John Bolton has urged Britain to push ahead with negotiations for a trade deal even before Joe Biden takes office as President in late January. He said that withdrawal from the European Union, whether with or without a UK-EU trade deal,will actually help ensure that Britain’s role in world […]
It was August 1981. American jetfighters had shot down twoLibyan planes over the disputed waters of the Gulf of Sirte. The BBC’sforeign editor had decided, in his infinite wisdom, that I should nipacross the border of Egypt, where I was based, and get to the Libyan capital Tripoli as fast as possible. This was however […]
Can the British media regulate itself, or should it be put under greater control? Here’s the Press Gazette’s take. Top editors have rejected calls to adopt a provision in the Editors’ Code of Practice banning discrimination against groups such as Muslims, Jews and migrant communities in the press. The Editors’ Code Committee (made up of […]
By Paul Martin A former CIA agent has claimed he was excluded from the original Lockerbie bombing trial and that investigators should turn their attention to the “true culprit” – Iran. John Holt, 68, says he was the author of secret cables showing that the Libyan double agent put forward by Scottish prosecutors as the […]
By Paul Martin. Exclusive. Revealing he was excluded from the original Lockerbie bombing trial, a former CIA operations officer has appealed for a British and American investigation that holds the “true culprit”, Iran, to account. John Holt says he was the author of the secret cables sent to his bosses soon after Lockerbie, showing that the Libyan ‘double agent’ put forward […]
Two-thirds of the beds that were block-purchased by the English National Health Service were left unoccupied during the summer months, a health service seminar has revealed. The government has spent an estimated £400m per month, the health services journal HSJ reported. Assuming that started in March, when the pandemic started ripping through the country, that […]