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

Monday, 31 August 2020

World stability is getting shakier by the day thanks to Covid

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This year will be notorious in history not just because of Covid-19 but because of the way it has been exploited. Look around the world and ...
Sunday, 30 August 2020

Classified intelligence in the US is a political weapon

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John Ratcliffe, the Trumpite director of national intelligence, has caused a political uproar by declaring in a letter to the Senate Intelli...
Saturday, 29 August 2020

Getting people back into their offices

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The one positive out of the long months of coronavirus-driven lockdown and working from home is that a large proportion of people have saved...
Friday, 28 August 2020

"No one will be safe" if Biden wins

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Are there any rules in politics? Is there a clause somewhere in the US constitution for example which states that all men or women elected t...
Thursday, 27 August 2020

Tanks a million but you're finished

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Tanks are so yesterday. Or so think some sections of the UK Ministry of Defence which believes that tanks have had their day and can be moth...
Wednesday, 26 August 2020

Eat out to help out plus a dose of Covid-19

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The UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak came up with this brilliant idea: Go out and eat in a restauant and we, the Treasury, will cover 50 per cent o...
Tuesday, 25 August 2020

Will the world be a safer place under Biden or Trump?

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Will the steady hand of President Joe Biden or the wild gesticulating of President Donald Trump bring a safer world? The way the world is go...
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Veteran Fleet Street reporter, former defence editor, war correspondent and Pentagon correspondent for The Times
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