Even as they faced a broadcasting blackout imposed by the European Union, both of Russia’s state-run English-language broadcasters continued to report or invent fanciful and distorted stories about the war their masters had launched inside Ukraine. RT, an acronym for Russian Television, seemed to enjoy mocking the mayor of Ukraine’s embattled capital city Kyiv, former […]
LATEST: Checked on 27th April 2022, at 3 40 pm and at 3 54 pm, the kremlin.ru website was not working… but the SVR website was. President Putin can no longer speak to the world, or to his own people, on his own website. And the website of SVR, Russia’s spy agency, has also been […]
By Paul Martin. World Exclusive.
Prresident Vladimir Putin says his country;s’s very existence would have been in danger had he not acted as he did over Ukraine. “The security risks that had been created were so high that it was impossible to respond by other means.,” he told a group of industrailaists and entepeneurs at the Kremlin. He added: “This was a forced measure […]
Marie Colvin was ruthless in pursuit of a scoop. But she was also astonishingly kind to her fellow-journalists.
The 9th Directorate of Russia’s FSB security service started drawing up war-gaming scenarios against Ukraine in December 2021 under the leadership of Russia’s Airborne Forces, an intelligence-based report claims. “Together they mapped which locals would be supportive and began working on lists of targets who would not. The intent was to establish the command-and-control links […]
Can you really ‘die of a broken heart’? The answer was: not really….until scientists did a major analysis of one type of apparent heart attack. Now, though, scentists beleive it really does happen. Not in huge numbers, but, nevertheless, very significantly. And it’s rising especially among middle aged and older women. They have found that […]
The Life and Legacy of Archbishop Desmond Tutu PRESS STATEMENT ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE I join President Biden and the First Lady in mourning the loss of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an extraordinary leader who joyously devoted his life to celebrating and advancing human dignity, justice, and morality. He was unassuming but no less […]
“It’s been announced in Moscow that President Mikhail Gorbachev has become ill,” said the radio on the hotel reception desk. I immediately realised this was some sort of Soviet-speak for saying the Soviet leader was either already dead or was being removed – in a coup. I bemoaned my fate — marooned in another country. […]
Simon Forster and Emma Schofield were greeted with a cheerful “bonjour” at passport control. Odd, as they had booked a holiday flight from Manchester to Copenhagen, where the language is, usually, Danish. It was then that the couple realised they were in the French city of Beauvais, near Paris – 750 miles from their intended […]
………………………………. NOTE (An insert that is not cleared for publication, but was widely reported at the time in newspapers: In 2016 Leah Tutu took the drastic step of laying a criminal charge of malicious damage to property when her granddaughter smashed crockery and precious objects at the Tutus’ Cape Town home after a furious row. […]
Exclusive: By Paul Martin in Cape Town. Trevor Tutu, the only son of anti-apartheid legend Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has spoken of his dad’s amazing life – including how the future world icon took his son to an England World Cup match on the back of a scooter! In an emotional wide-ranging interview Trevor Tutu spoke […]