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

Thursday, 30 August 2018

Does Trump really think North Korea will scrap its nukes?

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Donald Trump is hanging on desperately to his "friendship" with Kim Jong-un, expecting their mutual liking for each other (alleged...
Wednesday, 29 August 2018

Civilian casualties in Yemen are grotesquely high

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James Mattis, the US defence secretary, promised during a press briefing at the Pentagon yesterday, that the US was doing all it could to ma...
Tuesday, 28 August 2018

Will Trump win a Bafta for his Nafta deal?

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Donald Trump knows how to bully to get his way. Canada used to be a much-loved ally of the United States but Trump has had it in for America...
Monday, 27 August 2018

John McCain deserved more than sympathy from Trump

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There are times to be brutal, there are times to be indifferent and there are times to be magnanimous and gracious. Donald Trump chose indif...
Sunday, 26 August 2018

Rats are on the increase in Washington

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Washington has always had problems with rats. The capital was built on a swamp, so rats feel it is their natural habitat. Now there are so m...
Saturday, 25 August 2018

UK seems resigned to a break-out no Brexit deal

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It is surely one of the most despicable abdications of political responsibility for ministers of the British government to casually announce...
Thursday, 23 August 2018

Moves at the top at the CIA

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The top leadership tier of the CIA is to be exclusively made up of career intelligence officers, with no outsiders brought in to the agency ...
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Veteran Fleet Street reporter, former defence editor, war correspondent and Pentagon correspondent for The Times
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