World views from the author of First with the News, a memoir of life on the front line
Thursday, 31 December 2020
Do B-52s frighten Iran into submission?
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The privilege of being a military superpower is that with one quick phone call you can send a couple of mighty B-52 Stratofortress bombers f...
Wednesday, 30 December 2020
How will Biden treat the UK now as a trading partner?
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I have read a million times how the exit of the UK from the EU will place this country in a far less favourable light vis a vis the United S...
Tuesday, 29 December 2020
Trump's last throw of the dice
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First of all it's perhaps not a bad time to mention that the US Electoral College which rules on the winner of presidential elections co...
Monday, 28 December 2020
A classic climbdown with nothing to show for it
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Congress won. Trump lost. The president's climbdown on Sunday and his agreement to sign the $900 billion relief package despite angrily ...
Sunday, 27 December 2020
Trump's legacy is looking worse than terrible
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With only 23 days before he is due to (last two words filled with trepidation) leave the White House and retire to his resort palace in Flor...
Saturday, 26 December 2020
George Blake, traitor, dies
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He will no doubt receive huge obituaries in all major newspapers. But George Blake, arch traitor to his country responsible for the capture ...
Friday, 25 December 2020
The EU/UK trade deal is a reason to rejoice, not whinge!
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I was a Remainer and will always be a Remainer, believing it to be in the best interests of the UK to be part of the European Union. Brexit ...
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