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

Sunday, 31 March 2024

Happy Easter to a pretty desperate world

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At least the Pope made it for church, although he has looked somewhat ropey in recent months. Easter needs the Pope somehow. But the rest of...
Saturday, 30 March 2024

Trump "doesn't have the brains" to be a dictator

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According to John Bolton, the former national security adviser, Donald Trump doesn't have the brainpower to be a dictator. Obviously Bol...
Friday, 29 March 2024

What ARE Putin's next plans?

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Vladimir Putin believes in revenge. Defectors, troublesome opposition leaders, journalist investigators reporting on Kremlin corruption, any...
Thursday, 28 March 2024

Don't worry, Putin says he's not going to invade Poland, the Baltics etc

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So we can all sit back and relax. Vladimir Putin has pooh-poohed the fear expressed throughout the western alliance almost ever since Russia...
Wednesday, 27 March 2024

Is Biden going to fail in Ukraine as well as in Gaza?

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President Joe Biden vowed to back Ukraine all the way and then said the same for Israel after the Hamas atrocities on October 7. But in each...
Tuesday, 26 March 2024

Donald Trump now has two out of four trial dates

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We now know for sure that Donald Trump, Republican nominee-designate for the White House, multi-billionaire and mass property owner, is goin...
Monday, 25 March 2024

Israel has little choice but to extract Hamas from Rafah

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The appeal to Israel by the Biden administration not to "invade" the town of Rafah in southern Gaza makes no military sense. How c...
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Veteran Fleet Street reporter, former defence editor, war correspondent and Pentagon correspondent for The Times
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