World views from the author of First with the News, a memoir of life on the front line

Monday, 27 April 2026

Iran tries to take the upper hand

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Iran has made its first move to try and push Washington into a deal which will favour the Tehran regime. It won't work but it demonstrat...
Sunday, 26 April 2026

Could Trump's hopes for a deal rest with a wounded ayatollah?

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With the generals in charge in Tehran there is no hope of a deal with the US. The military, at least in the form of the Islamic Revolutionar...
Saturday, 25 April 2026

The new proposed talks in Pakistan were pointless

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It's hardly suprising that Donald Trump has cancelled the proposed second round of talks in Islamabad. It would have been a pointless ex...
Friday, 24 April 2026

The Iranian military want to defeat Trump

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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is holding out for a defeat of Donald Trump and the mighty US Navy. The generals now running th...
Thursday, 23 April 2026

The war in the Strait of Hormuz ignores the ceasefire

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There may be a ceasefire in Iran but there's a big war still going on in the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding seas. Donald Trump has now...
Wednesday, 22 April 2026

Who will be the big losers when Iran war ends?

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Basically everyone loses when the war in Iran is over: the US will have expended billions and billions of dollars in used-up missiles, inter...
Tuesday, 21 April 2026

Back to bombing or will there be peace?

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The odds are that by the end of this week, if not sooner, the US will be back to bombing Iran, and this time, targeting infrastructure all o...
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Veteran Fleet Street reporter, former defence editor, war correspondent and Pentagon correspondent for The Times
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