Author: Paul Martin

Analysis Blunders! Eyewitness Insight Still Relevant

Fired by NBC, hired by The Mirror. As Baghdad was falling 20 years ago, the legendary Peter Arnett thanks Correspondent.World’s editor Paul Martin and the ex-Mirror editor Piers Morgan.

21 March 2023 By Paul Martin

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the Vietnam War, legendary journalist Peter Arnett recalls witnessing theinvasion of Iraq from inside Baghdad, reveals the inside story of how he was fired then hired, and describes some of the US blunders, including the killing of three journalists. By Peter Arnett. Article and Photos Copyright Peter Arnett / Paul […]

Religion & Ethics

Pope Benedict XVI is buried now alongside many other Popes at St Peter’s Cathedral. Father John Kennedy, who worked for and deeply respected the late Holy Father, talks to Correspondent.World. Our previous visit to the centre of the Vatican had a very different theme.

8 January 2023 By Paul Martin

We also have had an exclusive interview, at his St Peter’s Square Vatican headquarters, with Monsignor John Kennedy. It took place after the funeral of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who had become Pope Benedict XVI while Father Kennedy was working for him at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican. He has […]

Analysis Insight Latest News Sport

The great Pelé, dead at 82, had some great flaws. They involved dictators and racism.

3 January 2023 By Paul Martin

By Paul Martin, Exclusive. Pelé’s legacy has two very big shadows: his willingness to serve dictators and his astonishing silence on racism. Despite his humble origins and the racism of his society, Pelé often seemed willing to consort with hardline right-wingers — a stain on his otherwise demigod status.   During the period of the military dictatorship […]

Analysis Eyewitness Insight Olympics Sport

Pelé, dead at 82, was the world’s greatest footballing hero — ever. But the great Brazilian, known to many as ‘The King’, was not free from political controversy.

30 December 2022 By Paul Martin

Pele was fascinated when I asked for an interview.  He must have given thousands before mine, but this was different.  “You mean we’ll be talking directly on the Internet?” he gasped.  In 1997 that was not just a novelty, it was historic.   It was the first time any event had been internetted live.

Insight Religion & Ethics Still Relevant

Hitler’s comrade-in-arms still has a Nazi helmet on his grave. Will it be removed?

6 December 2022 By Paul Martin

The helmet on Hermann Kriebel’s grave (Dirk Walter) By Paul Martin. A small German town is refusing to remove a steel helmet that remains on top of a Nazi general’s grave. Hermann Kriebel headed the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party , whose ‘Storm Detachment’ launched vicious attacks on Jews in Nazi Germany and Austria in 1938.   Kriebel […]