Category: Blunders!

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 […]

Analysis Blunders! Eyewitness Insight

Mistake after mistake — by our Foreign Office chappies.

20 March 2023 By Paul Martin

British documentary film-maker and journalist Paul Martin, detained in Gaza in 2010, says the Foreign Office keeps making the same mistakes when dealing with academics or reporters locked up by tinpot dictatorships. He says the FCO’s incompetence or lack of care puts prisoners in danger. The wife of Matthew Hedges says the Foreign Office endangered the […]

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Jesus ‘rises again’ in a bombed Sri Lankan church.

12 July 2022 By Paul Martin

The Cardinal of Colombo says Jesus Christ has risen again — in the church suicide-bombed by an Islamic extremist during an Easter service in 2019. This time though, the blood on the statue in Negombo does not belong to any of the 120 murdered victims of the atrocity. “The blood that spattered onto the statue […]

Blunders! Strange as It Seems

Excusez-moi! you are in ze wrong country, monsieur-dame!

14 February 2022 By Paul Martin

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 […]