World views from the author of First with the News, a memoir of life on the front line
Sunday, 31 July 2022
What if Trump stands, wins nomination but then loses?
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So many things are hanging on whether Donald Trump stands for the presidency again or not. There are a number of big IFs and then an even bi...
Saturday, 30 July 2022
Joe Manchin saviour after all
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I think it's only fair after berating him in recent blogs that a good word now be said for Senator Joe Manchin, the man who appeared to ...
Friday, 29 July 2022
Taiwan in bunker mode facing China
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Taiwan keeps 160 of its most advanced fighter aircraft behind “a wall of granite” deep inside a mountain, far away from Chinese surveillance...
Thursday, 28 July 2022
The battle for Kherson in full swing
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The battle for Kherson, the southern Ukrainian city occupied by Russian troops, will be the defining moment in the war now entering its six...
Wednesday, 27 July 2022
Putin's "instant" war is now five months old
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I doubt Vladimir Putin ever thought that his "special military operation" in Ukraine would still be raging five months after it wa...
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
Putin is all gas gas gas
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When you control the main energy supply to Europe you have power at the switch of a button. This is the power in the hands of Vladimir Putin...
Monday, 25 July 2022
Americans want to take up arms against the government
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Some opnion polls produce whacky results. It's inevitable if you ask the right or wrong questions. A new US poll has asked Americans whe...
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