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

Over the years, Queen Elizabeth has had to share her ceremonial carriage with all sorts of people, dictators among them. She always unfailin...

Trump right now is the most excited kid on the block. For the moment, he can literally do anything he wants to shape or reshape the United S...

Even when it rains in St Lucia the locals refuse to be downhearted. They call it liquid sunshine, a phrase that   helps   to explain...

Well, my memoir has been selling for 59 days and I think it's doing pretty well. I've learned a lot about the publishing business si...

So Donald and Theresa want to be Ronnie and Maggie! In my view, no chance. Different era, different personalities, different problems and ch...

Click here to see the 32 lighthearted posts I sent from Washington as the only Brit Pentagon Correspondent between 2010 and 2013.

It's Trump Trump Trump. When John K Kennedy entered the White House there was hope and vision, when Barack Obama won the presidency ...