Author: Paul Martin

By Paul Martin.  Exclusive   In what turned out to be his last interview, Reeva’ Steenkamp’s father Barry told Correspondent. World why he would die of a broken heart. We had spoken ten years to the day after the megastar Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius shot his girlfriend dead.“Our hearts are broken.”   “We want to […]

“I know how much the Ukrainians need us Brits.  The Russians are bloodthirsty killers and torturers.   “One thing I guarantee you: me and my buddies have decided they cannot take us alive. I’m ready to die if I have to and meet our Maker — and take some of the enemy with me.  If […]

General Oleg Kalugin, former head of the KGB’s Counter-Intelligence directorate, has told Correspondent.World: “It’s no surprise to me that [Russian president] Putin’s spy agency uses Bulgarians to spy on Britain. “The Russian relationship with Bulgaria’s spy agency goes back a long way. “The FSB still see Bulgarians as a support to their activities, just as […]

By Paul Martin  Ever heard the one about the clergyman and the England cricket captain?  Sounds like the start of a joke.  But, honestly, it really really happened. I was reporting on a limited-over international cricket match between England and South Africa in Birmingham when, to my surprise, I was greeted by a Man of […]

Shelling or rocket-fire has been a daily feature of life in Kherson since the Russians pulled back across the river in late November, comprising the first and only retreat the invaders have made in this war from a city they had occupied. A 12-year-old boy — like many in Kherson — has become an expert […]

By Paul Martin in Kherson, Ukraine. Pictures, they say in journalism, are worth a thousand words. So look at this one that I snapped: Well, one thing is obvious: there’s a bunker alongside the playground equipment. Its users need to duck into the shelter if they hear the wailing of an air-raid siren, like this […]

BY ANATOL LIEVEN 25 April 2023 Anatol Lieven is a former war correspondent and Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington DC. He has just returned from five weeks in Ukraine, interviewing civilians, military personnel and government officials. What follows is an edited transcript of his remarks to Freddie Sayers. […]

By Paul Martin. Furious families of people killed in the 9-11 terrorist attacks have slammed the American chief of the PGA golf tour for making a worldwide deal with the rebel Saudi-created LivGolf tour. Sixteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens, and the Saudis have the highest rate of executions in the world — with […]