Middle East: safer, but not just yet
June 23, 2025 3:13 am Post a CommentWell, I did write several times that Trump was volatile and unpredictable. And even as Mark Urban was writing for... View Article
Tag Archive: Iran
Media: Vorsprung durch Technik
June 21, 2025 3:18 am Post a CommentIsraeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was interviewed by an Israeli TV station yesterday, we are told, although this report does... View Article
Media: driving down standards
June 20, 2025 3:29 am Post a CommentToday’s the day that some newspapers (I don’t know how many because I can’t bear to look at more than... View Article
Media: variances
June 19, 2025 3:09 am Post a CommentThroughout the history of this blog, I have endeavoured to give my best assessment of the issues I write about,... View Article
Middle East: the technology stopper
June 16, 2025 3:41 am Post a CommentFor a very long time, UK media publishers have known that foreign affairs don’t sell newspapers, or drive ratings in... View Article
Middle East: targets for the fight
June 15, 2025 3:17 am Post a CommentThere is no messing here – what’s going down between Israel and Iran really is a war even if, at... View Article
Middle East: Rising Lion
June 14, 2025 3:36 am Post a CommentIt was particularly thoughtless of the Israelis to launch their attack on Iran in the wee small hours (UK time),... View Article
Middle East: the future is nuclear?
October 7, 2024 3:09 am Post a CommentThere is scarcely a media outlet which hasn’t devoted space or time to the anniversary of the Hamas barbarism in... View Article
Middle East: the annals of misinformation
October 4, 2024 3:37 am Post a CommentWith all that’s going on, it is difficult to pick a single issue and elevate it above the rest, affording... View Article
Middle East: high stakes
October 2, 2024 3:17 am Post a CommentIf ever there was an example of the “one war at a time” syndrome, this is it. Despite the fall... View Article
Comment: an instable world
May 20, 2024 3:49 am Post a CommentWith no single theme to unite the media, headlines are all over the place today, although that may change when... View Article
Ukraine: two-faced Cameron
April 16, 2024 3:44 am Post a CommentForced to recognise the anomalous levels of support as between Israel and Ukraine, Cameron found himself struggling to explain why... View Article
Israel: mushroom clouds over Tehran
April 15, 2024 3:11 am Post a CommentI am not the only one, by a long chalk, to wonder why it is that the US – with... View Article
Ukraine: losing the headline war
April 14, 2024 2:56 am Post a CommentThe curse of the Middle East has struck again, with the Iranian drone and missile bombardment of Israel. Although, at... View Article
Foreign affairs: a long-standing conflict
January 19, 2024 3:52 am Post a CommentSince the Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, sundry commenters have been quick to argue that this new “war zone”... View Article
Immigration: open borders
November 19, 2023 3:25 am Post a CommentOne can see that the British legacy media is so full of vitally important news that it is hard put... View Article
