A senior former Israeli military intelligence chief has expressed “worry” that concessions that his country may have been made in exchange for the recent peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates will lead to Israel losing its air superiority in the region. Speaking to correspondent.world and 15 other journalists in a half-hour webinar, […]
An American study has shown that taking samples from saliva to determine if someone has the Covid-19 virus is just as effective as the current uncomfortable and resource-consuming method of inserting a sample-taking tube into a nose or throat.
Must we say it again? The British Medical Journal “reveals” with what correspondent.world uncovered two and a half months back. Suddenly the media has woken up. This Week wrote: The biggest study yet of children admitted to hospital with Covid-19 has revealed that the virus poses a “vanishingly small” threat to school students. Children’s risk […]
The makers of a world-renowned television series have called on a producer-presenter to slash substantial chunks of a new widely-publicised film that claims End of Empire’s Iran programme was censored by the British government or its spy agency. The End of Empire series executive producer Brian Lapping has now entered the fray. He supports the […]
Norma Percy, the award-winning producer of meticulously researched revelatory political documentaries for 35 years, has firmly rejected the claim that the makers of an episode of the 1985 series End of Empire about the overthrow of Iran’s prime minister by a British-supported coup in 1953 were pressured to drop a powerful interview they had with a British spy.
The producers of the major Granada Television series End of Empire, first shown on Channel 4 in 1985, have adamantly rejected claims that they were pressured into withdrawing an interview they had filmed with an MI6 agent. Taghi Amirani made the claims in his documentary feature film, digitally premiered this week, focusing on the British […]
“It’s a mystery within an enigma,” declares Taghi Amirani, an Iranian who has lived in Britain since he was 15, as he reflects to correspondent.world on a key thesis in his own film, Coup53. Released worldwide (albeit digitally) on August 19 2020, key elements in his film are now under fire, from two veteran film-makers […]
President Donald Trump has blundered again. He has said that children are “almost definitely immune” from Covid-19. Facebook removed the video, claiming it contained a falsehood. Technically, by using the term ‘immune’, President Trump is wrong. But in a key respect his practical point is right. The risk of children under the age of 11 […]
Lebanon is, literally, reeling from its latest blast. The actual cause was a small fire that then ignited a huge quantity of ammonium nitrate stored in the country’s main port for more than six years. It had been confiscated from a ship that had docked on its way to take supplies of the volatile material. […]
By Paul Martin Correspondent.world analysed Chinese scientific websites to discover, many weeks ago, that the statistical chance of the virus that causes Covid-19 having evolved accidentally in a market in Wuhan was less than one in a hundred. Now, we are hearing allegations that the country’s top virological pathology centre, based in Wuhan, was carrying […]