Did that wonderful man just come up with the term “a tire pressure IQ”? Holy moly I love Bruce Robinson. He has his very own version of the English language and it’s a superior one.

the book is just a blast. the best book on the ripper case ever written, and I read a whole lot of them. really: the absolute best. not only in terms of investigative power but also the language. this guy knows how to write, to present a case, to really make a point and to present irrefutable prove. I read it now for the 4th time, it is so captivating.

Incredible book. Thoroughly recommended. Robinson has done a sterling job.

A hidden gem of an interview, this upload deserves more recognition. Not being on the fast loop of JTR tourism, I'm a little late to the party, but I might treat myself to Bruce's book for Christmas sustenance. He's articulate, he has heart, he has balls - I'm interested. I could pay the same epithet to Brian Clough but his wit and wisdom is only ever disseminated in compendia of detached quips. Which is good in its own way but I want multiple hour shifts if I'm going to commit to a good read. Yes, I am familiar with 'Withnail and I'. Favourite part: 'All Along the Watchtower' (Dylan) - Hendrix. I don't go around reciting phrases from the script (in fact, having a brother who did, I used to misquote phrases to annoy his uptight friends. Brother was immediately tacitly appreciative to where I was coming from with that) ... but I've enjoyed the film many times.

Bruce Robinson SHINES as ever, enabled by a brilliant moderator. xx SF

Fantastic book. Fantastic Author and Director. Long, detailed, thorough, compelling.

Please , Please, Mr Robinson, maintain the rage! your direct, no nonsense attitude is truly refreshing! love from lockdown central. Melbourne, Aus

If you haven't read his book,do so. He either has it or he's a fantastic story teller with the Ripper as the backdrop. His use of the more descriptive words and phrases is fun.

Brilliant book and it all makes perfect sense

Bruce Robinson is such a treasure

Saying Bruce can’t swear should be a criminal offence. He’s the worlds greatest writer and speaker of vulgar words.

Twice read this amazing book

For me the best point he makes in his book is how Michael Maybrick (and his brother) was expunged from Freemasonic history. Gone. No longer a member. Why? This guy was a musical hit-writer of his day. How did he wrong his brothers?

what a fantastic question right at the end .. , indeed has much changed ? A brilliant expose. Bruce has gone up in m y estimation. He has courage as well as talent .

fantastic interview a revelation i will be this book.

Fastest hour or so ever watching these two ....heavyweight information ......knockout entertainment .

Currently reading this outstanding book.

The host keeps interrupting Bruce in the most rude way. It is not about him! He just wants the limelight

Having read 'they all love jack' I stopped looking for anymore books on the case.robinson has solved it in my opinion.thank you bruce!

You can describe the dismembering of a human being but you can’t say Bugger or Bollocks...?

Stephen Knight never accused prince Eddy as being JTR This is False info .

Also, in Scotland every town and city had and has still its West End where the wealthy enjoy their privileged and protected lives.

Great interview i gotta get the book 👍

I want that scarf.

How can a person giving necessarily vivid descriptions of the ripper murders then be cautioned for simply using an odd mild word like ‘bugger’? It’s as crazy as KZfaq allowing explicit violence yet censoring an inoffensive woman’s nipple. Incomprehensible logic.

Richard E Grant has a fragrance called Jack... No connection, I just thought it a coincidence how both men now so intertwined have had success with the same name. Though one Jack smells sweet and is the essence of joy itself, and the other the essence of dank horror.

56:54 I'd tell this man if he was my friend. He should watch his back as he may well go to far in his outspokenness! I say go ahead my friend we need more welknown people speaking truth

Let the man speak

The film Murder By Decree (1979) covers the angle being discussed.

He's right about Dunblane

Stephen Knights research is the definitive theory of the Whitechapel murders. These so called historians constantly use the term "serial killer" to describe Jack the Ripper, which is rubbish, because there's no evidence that the killings were carried out by some deranged serial killer. Knight mayve got a few things wrong or missed out, but his general suggestion that the 5 women were specifically targeted because they were going to blackmail the Royal family of Eddy's affair and child to Annie Crook, is bang on imo. The only decent researcher that has followed up on Knights theory is John Hamer. In his book, Falsification of History, he basis his research on Knights, and agrees that the murders were a freemasonic ritual to silence those 5 women. You could argue that why did it take them 10 weeks to murder all 5 and not immediately. Many reasons why, maybe they didn't want to blow their cover, finding them was likely a challenge, by killing them over those weeks gave the police (those at the bottom not the ones in the know) and public the impression there was madman walking around biding his time in the dark ally's that could strike at anytime, or maybe they used specific dates to kill them on. I know Mary Kelly was killed in the 9th Nov (numbers 9 and 11?, just throwing it out there).

It's baffling to me how little publicity this book garnered, and, frankly, how anyone can doubt its conclusions after reading it in full. I can only assume it's more of the same concealment.

I've understood the freemason theory for donkey's years he acts like he's found a new angle

Legend. Sherry ?

Wow!! very interesting conversation. But then who is right or wrong? need to get my hands on the book.

He would make a good Dr. Who.

Can anyone other than me see how crazy and absurd it is that these two eminent people have to wear utterly ridiculous ID placards. It’s about time people refused to conform with such ridiculous degrading regulations.

52:01 listen up and research this !!! He knows his stuff.

Michael Maybrick, who used the pen name Stephen Adams, is in the Oxford Dictionary of Music and Groves. I’m afraid Bruce is wrong here, The song The Holy City has been recorded by literally thousands of singers since the Victorian era, there are dozens of versions on KZfaq. Would be impossible to hide it

Brilliant talk by the juggernaut of intelligence and wit, Mr. Robinson. But why couldn't anyone get him a chair? The poor guy is so poorly but soldiering on regardless.

The whole thing about the West End was luxurious and the East End was terrible poverty and slums. Then, as today, London was a place where the upper class in their town houses very often lived literally a 1/4 of a mile from people who lived in semi starvation and in extreme poverty. A close look at the Booth poverty maps from 1888/89 and the second series from 1898/99 show that not all of the poverty in London was concentrated in the East End, nor was the West End an area of wealth and prosperity. Slum areas existed in North, South, West and East London.. and prosperous areas were found in all parts of London.

There was interesting info recently regarding the second murder and the supposed witness who found her. He cclaimed to have discovered her alone and was seen by the second witness leaning over her as she lay on the ground. As it was a long straight road , the man who found her could easily see and hear the second witness arriving for along enough to prepare himself. The second man suggested getting the police and both left to find one. As they found one they gave their names and stories. IT was found the next days that the first man , who claimed to have found her alone, had given a false name and address. But in all the confusion and panic, his story of being a witness seemed to slip by . he was identified later and claimed to live in the area that was at the centre of all murders, he also worked as a slaughterman at the nearby abattoir, having knowledge and the skills of using knives and the dissection of animals. When this story was rediscovered recently, a detective and FBI psychologist both said he would be a prime suspect today and that his obvious lies for no reason, his supposed discovery of the body alone in a long street is very suspicious. He could so easily have been the killer, who having just killed the woman, heard the steps at a distance of the second witness as he walked to work. If he ran away he would raise alarm so he seems to have pretended to have found her but disappeared as soon as he could once the policeman saw them, leaving a false name and address ! I've not heard anyone speak of this man apart from this one programme and if anyone knows anything else about him and subsequent events I would love to know.

I wish the goofy guy in green would shut up and let Bruce finish his talk. very annoying.

Mr. Robinson gives a slightly different version of the "Juwes" graffiti. This is usually rendered as: "The Juwes are not the men who will be blamed for nothing" but Mr. Robinson gives it as: "The Juwes are not the men to be blamed for nothing" which is considerably less enigmatic. It seems unlikely that a professional writer with such intensive research would mis-quote this well-known paragraph, especially three times, yet I've never heard this variant before. Could this be the original and proper version?

Regardless of your opinions on his theory, this man produced a tour de force of research and recreation of the case.

29:00 "he was like, one of us" little in jokes me thinks. I'm not sure about Robinson! I really like him I get a good vibe from him. But he knows more than he lets on.. they both are speaking words that are not spoken

Is that Dunblane story true!? Sounds remarkable but I can't find anything to back it up

Jackie hated his mother

Stephen knight originally said this

Michael Maybrick was performing on Thursday night 8 november in Redhill Surrey. Mary Jane Kelly was murdered that night, 8 november - 9 november. How could Michael have done that if he was performing that night? Honest question.

_"It's you he wants... offer him yourself"_

Hello, Bruce! I have an idea that's been tugging on my coattails for a long time. See what you think. I wonder if you've ever considered working with Patricia Cornwell on a combined Ripper theory. It seems that you could both be right, and that Maybrick and Sickert could not only have known one another, but been working in tandem. They were both upper crusty, and I don't know for sure, but wonder if they weren't both Masons. They both had ties to Whitechapel. They both traveled in Britain and on the Continent, and Maybrick was known to have visited America, as well. Certain physical evidence links each of them with the killings, as both you and Ms. Cornwell have demonstrated conclusively. I also think that perhaps you should look into a snippet of information I noticed in a book called, "The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper" by historian Hallie Rubenhold. She mentions that Mary Jane Kelly (she calls her Marie Jeanette) spent some time in France (Paris), but that she returned suddenly, telling friends that it "didn't suit her." I wonder if you could delve further into the details of this trip and see if one of your boys wasn't in Paris during the same time frame. If so, the perpetrator of her murder is probably "the other guy", since in all probability, it was either a revenge killing for Mary Jane's hasty retreat or perhaps a way of getting rid of a girl who knew too much (were there any similar killings in Paris at the time?). If she accompanied, say, Sickert, to Paris, then Maybrick, whom she would presumably not recognize when accosted by him, would be her killer, and vice versa. Come to think of it, you, Mr. Robinson, as well as Ms Cornwell AND Ms. Rubenhold should put your heads together. I think the answer is that all three of you are holding pieces to the final solution of this skin-crawling case.🧐 Forgive my buttinskyism but I doubt if anyone who's ever read the facts of these brutal crimes can resist having a go at closing the Ripper files. 🩸🩸🩸🔬🧪

I used to like this man.

1:24 an already got the wrong months of when the murders started 😐😒

49:14 this guy nails it. Motive. Bruce starts rambling incoherently...hmmmm

I just re-watched the Hughes Brothers film From Hell that was based on a graphic novel and it runs through basically the same Theory

Notts County clinched the EPL in 1888 ... FACT

Jackie was a soldier

Ted Bundy's IQ was measured at around 130, not 170

charles cross was jack the ripper he killed nicholls about 10 minutes before robert paul came along the body was still warm so cross had to make up his mind weather to run or face paul so he decided to bluff his way out

Great hearing Bruce, I've read the book and he nails it. Who is this annoying interviewer though? Constantly interrupting.

got to say it, i just thought i write a book were James & Michael Maybrick are both rippers, ( Killers' )

17:37 "the compasses of the architect" interesting choice of words and glance from that man..not saying sinister but something to be noted

If the killer was a Freemason or a member of high society what's to say that he knew he could get away with the murders?. He was taunting the police. Is it possible as well that the killer disguised himself in Mary Jane's clothing to make himself look like her which could explain the eyewitness report of seeing her at 8.30pm after the murder? Could have been the work of a gay killer as dressing in drag would have been easy for him. Another theory that has surfaced is that the killer was a boyfriend of Prince Albert who was reportedly a homosexual who frequented brothels in Whitechapel. Also, there were reports - not confirmed - that Prince Albert had syphilis and as a result, a close acquaintance did the killings. Prince Albert was definitely not the Ripper. If it was a cover-up then the police knew who it was and dismissed any eyewitness sightings as mistaken identity. I instantly dismissed any royal or masonic connection as total fantasy but having now viewed more documentaries on the subject am now starting to believe that the whole Jack The Ripper was a ritual performed by the rich element of society. Maybe the killer was hired to do it at the bequest of a wealthy individual - a man - who wanted to do it for himself but didn't have the courage for fear of being exposed. We'll never know though. In my opinion, this has the makings of a cover-up at the highest levels, and the fact that they did over 2000 interviews of potential suspects further confirms this. The killer stopped because he possibly died soon afterward.

This guy obviously did not read Knight's book, otherwise he would know that Knight never implicated Prince Eddy (the Duke of Clarence) as the Ripper. A total fabrication to say the least.

I hope this isnt one of those the monarchy did it with a 70 year old doctor theories..I suppose there's only one way to find out..OK I'l watch

Please 🙏 send me a reply so I can easily find this

Scrubbers!

53:57 the establishment observer

So the Cops new who he was in 1888 - So Why the taunting letters Bruce ? .

it was george allen cross

Doesn't he look like Richard Dawkins?

_So it wasn't James Maybrick(The Diary of Jack The Ripper),and instead it was his brother Michael Maybrick. How very interesting!_

Bruce Robinson has come up with a composite of two different JTR stories, that of Stephen Knight, and the Diary of Jack the Ripper, and changed things around a little, and claims it all to be his own work. Instead of giving due credit to the real authors, he has the gall to disparage them, and call their stories rubbish. Well Bruce, If these stories are so wrong, then why are you using them? If the original authors of these stories are so bad, then why are you copying their work? You seem to think of yourself as an intelligent man. I have to question why such an intelligent man can't come up with his own ideas.

Jesus Christ, was Bruce paid by the word?

I couldn’t believe the way this man ignorantly dispelled Stephen knights book, Knight never claimed the price was the ripper but was a cover up to hide his baby he had with a catholic woman that would have caused unrest within the public, also knight claimed it was a Freemason an was a 3 man job. Knight also highlights that only 5 victims out of all the women working the street at the time only 5 an he explains how these victims all knew each other some lived on the same street some drank in the same pub an they all knew that the prince had a child with this catholic woman an it had to be kept secret, that explains the Masonic rituals.

I have to admit I find the interruptions very jarring.

Bruce calls the work of Stephen Knight nonsense, yet he steals his work, just as Patricia Cornwell has done. Then he pretends to be the one who discovered that the murders were Masonic ritual, and the police covered it up. This comes from Stephen Knight, not Bruce Robinson. If Bruce were a real researcher, as he likes to present, he'd know that Stephen Knight did not claim Prince Eddy to be the ripper. And this, once again, is the problem with people who dismiss things without first learning what it is they're dismissing. This is not characteristic of a good researcher. Do your research, Bruce. If you're going to use another man's work and claim it as your own, then you should at least know what he actually said.

There is so much misinformation regarding this case. There are a ridiculous number of theories as to the perpetrator and the motive. Even the agreed upon facts don’t make sense unless things have been left out, or conclusions have been incorrect. No psychopathic serial killer starts out full throttle. It takes several attempts before they get to their final ritual. It has never happened this way. Therefore, either these were planned killings or, as I believe, these were not the first attacks committed by the same person. Either there were earlier attacks in the area that were not attributed to the ripper, or the perpetrator was from elsewhere and had committed former atrocities in a different location. Even planned murders would mean the killer had killed others before or afterword in the same or a similar manner. I’ve seen no theories that address this issue, which is a fact obvious to anyone who has ever studied cases of serial killers. Until I see a theory that addresses this elephant in the room, I take any of them with several grains of salt.

Every author is right lol

What a rambling load of old tosh!

UTTER UTTER NONSENSE

55:30 .. uh oh.. at least two (kinda three) incorrect facts about Ted Bundy rattled off with great confidence. Definitely gives me pause to keep learning from this dude / the F Masons route. I'll see what JTR Forums / Casebook have to say. But we all know who controls those..

Love Bruce but mostly nonsense oh well 😂 maybrick stuff is utter bollocks close but no cigar 🙏

Bah. Bulls hit. I don't believe a shred of it. The one fact everyone doesn't want to admit is that we will NEVER know who the notorious "Jack the Ripper" is, or WHY they did what they did. That is all lost in time; and unless someone finds other evidence, all we can do is give our hard earned money to these authors who come up with these outlandish theories.

Interesting chat here, but this whole Ripper conspiracy bit has been thoroughly debunked by many serious scholars/historians. The Ripper, who will probably never be identified, was almost certainly a local man who blended in seamlessly with the rough Whitechapel surroundings.

Stephen Knight did not claim the Duke of Clarence was the ripper. This is disinfo. Read his book; The final solution. This book and 'The Ripper and the Royals' are the only two books that give us the truth. All the rest are disinfo, including the book trumped up here.

ALL LIES.

I really did not enjoy the book. It just goes off on mad rambles.

Horrendous host and interviewer. Constantly interrupting.

I never saw a person so pathetic in his old age. Strong bitter about his own country, europeans, and the canon of the occident culture. Patetic is the word.

Micheal Maybrick! LOL The idiots taken the name from James Maybrick, a possible suspect. He wrote a song called "They All Love Jack" lol This Robinsons not right in the head!

Robinson is completely taking a piss on our intelligence. Instead of giving us a fair case for a potential candidate. He just satirises Ripperology and give a subversive take that pushes the goal post aswell provide very little proof but more circumstantial . It might aswell be historical fiction. Is he seriously implying all 700 alleged Ripper letters (which 99% of them were clearly hoaxes) was done by one person mobile enough to intimidate and confuse the police. Someone get into Bruce's head that not all the Jack the ripper letters were authentic. Alot of the public was taking the piss on the police's incompetent to catch the ripper. There were over 700 cases of Jack the Ripper letters which meant most of them had to be ruled out. Quite sensational but maybe he should put it into a fictional film than try have us believe it all in his book.

Utter rubbish I'm afraid. On the other hand, James Maybrick was the Ripper.