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Transcript of a conversation that Ukraine claims proves Russia blew up the Kakhovka dam: Ukraine’s domestic security service (SBU) said on Friday it had intercepted a telephone call proving a Russian “sabotage group” blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric station and the dam in southern Ukraine. A one-and-a-half minute audio clip on its Telegram channel of […]
It’s been dubbed City of Heroes, the official accolade awarded by President Volodymyr Zelensky to Kharkiv — Ukraine’s battered second city. Two intrepid cameramen-producers have chronicled its trials and tribulations under Russian fire in a riveting film called “Ukraine: Life Under Attack”. Their documentary has added poignancy as the Russian bombardment, apparently receding a month ago, […]
As I walked in to a hotel to interview Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s prime minister from 1959 to 1990), I should perhaps have read the signals. The Singaporean leader looked at me, then at his wrist-watch, in quick succession. He pointed to a chair I was to sit on. “I was expecting someone, er, more important,” he […]
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 […]
“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. […]
The BBC has made a new geographical blunder. The flagship BBC Radio 4 morning programme, Today, informed its listeners in its 6 a.m. news that Nigeria is in Southern Africa. Any glance at the map, let alone general knowledge, would have told the reporter that Nigeria, the continent’s most populous country, is way north of […]
Wimbledon has started without the bulk of its usual spectator fans this year. Attribute that to the Covid pandemic. The way most people watch Wimbledon has also been infected — by bugs in the BBC’s computer system. Or in its technology, at least. On the second day of The Championships, as they are somewhat arrogantly […]
A sign on the desert road south of Baghdad, curiously in English not Arabic, pointed to what it described as an “Engineering Factory”. It was the only hint that there was something unusual to be found just off the beaten track. Until days before, this “Engineering factory” had been nothing less than Saddam Hussein’s project […]
Veteran BBC broadcaster Jeremy Paxman has attacked war reporters on television who put their own ego ahead of the story. In an online discussion Paxman said that in war reporting, egoism “switches the focus from whatever’s happening wherever you are to me, me, me”. He added: “That’s the besetting problem with television. It’s full of […]
The revelation from former Daily Mirror editor Roy Greenslade that he “supported the right of the Irish people to engage in armed struggle” via the IRA throughout the 1970s and 1980s has prompted a furious response from many in the industry, reports the Press Gazette. From 1992 until 2020, Greenslade had also been the media […]
The world has just seen astonishingly-detailed clear pictures from the surface of Mars, courtesy of an American rover called Perseverance [affectionately abbreviated to Percy]. However when BBC Newsnight proudly showed them [on February 24 2021], as a marvel of human achievement, it also linked up with a scientist in Britain. Except the picture of him […]
In Yemen ‘the UN warns that sixteen million people will go hungry this year, including some four hundred thousand children, who will suffer from what it calls severe acute malnutrition,’ declares Huw Edwards as he presents the BBC Ten O’Clock News on February. Tragic — and it was followed by a harrowing, apparently accurate report. […]
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has hit back at critics who say he lacks the hard-man qualities needed to become Britain’s prime minister. He also attacked politicians and journalists, who he says have already been proved wrong about him. Speaking by zoom to a group situated inside his parliamentary constituency, Sir Keir said voters don’t want […]
For a journalist and foreign correspondent, being in the right place at the right time is sometimes lucky, sometimes an instinct. I had just failed in both. Only days before I had been in Russia, making a film about Boris Yeltsin, the recently elected leader of the Russian Federation, which was the major part of […]
Ten years on from Egypt’s Arab Spring – what has become of the Tahrir Square revolutionaries? Protests in Cairo in 2011 sparked the downfall of dictator Hosni Mubarak. But did it really change anything? By Colin Freeman 24 January 2021 A woman waves an Egyptian national flag from a balcony overlooking Tahrir Square, Cairo on […]
‘It’s the Sun wot won it.’ That was a famous headline when the Conservatives unexpectedly won a British general election. Now, more than a quarter of a century later, that popular tabloid newspaper could very well rewrite its deliberately ungrammatical headline and declare: ‘It’s the Sun wot faked it.’ Let’s start by quoting the offending […]
Like Lazarus, he has returned from the grave. Or so said Colonel Ron Black’s friends when they heard he was alive and well.
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Can the British media regulate itself, or should it be put under greater control? Here’s the Press Gazette’s take. Top editors have rejected calls to adopt a provision in the Editors’ Code of Practice banning discrimination against groups such as Muslims, Jews and migrant communities in the press. The Editors’ Code Committee (made up of […]