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

Rex Tillerson is quite a tease. He has revealed that Washington is talking direct to Pyongyang. So who exactly is talking to whom? Surely no...

I never thought Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was dead. The Russians made great play about the intelligence they had received that they, the Russians...

Well I'm not in the mood to apologise to China for taking them to task in a blog the other day for doing nothing to stop North Korea fro...

When European leaders go on about the need to have an EU army, or as President Macron said today, a European integrated military force, I st...

I think enough is enough. Please, Trump and Kim, stop all this dangerous hate rhetoric. The world doesn't just centre around you two. Th...

Oh my goodness I agree with Trump. The Iran nuclear deal's "sunset clause" under which the limits on uranium-enrichment are li...

Exactly what does Trump mean when he says he can destroy North Korea? Perhaps Jim Mattis, his trusty defence secretary, has come up with a p...