Category: Still Relevant

Give us a break – from holidays. There’s increasing evidence that holidays can cause harmful stress.

30 December 2020 By Paul Martin

Originally published in the Sunday Times, Sunday August 31, 1986 WARNING: Holidays can damage your health. Psychologists believe that many of the millions of Britons returning to work this week wouldhave been better off staying at the office instead of taking theirannual break. Increasing evidence that holidays can cause harmful stress ratherthan provide welcome rest and […]

Sport Still Relevant

Tennis: Game, set but no match for the Wimbledon losers.

30 December 2020 By Paul Martin

Originally published inThe Times, Tuesday July 08, 1986. As at Rome’s Colosseum, Wimbledon’s centre court salutes only those of its gladiators who survive and conquer in their final encounters.A few All-England finalists return, hardened by past battles, andemerge triumphant. Most, though, receive an imperial thumbs-down andare doomed to oblivion in the history of tennis. Ivan Lendl […]

How It Was Done Insight Still Relevant

Protected: Ten years since his capture by a hardline Hamas ‘internal security’ force inside Gaza, a veteran foreign correspondent reveals the story behind his ordeal. And what he has learned, to his benefit, from that experience.

14 February 2020 By Paul Martin

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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‘A journey from which he may never return.’ The conclusion of my historic BBC report when the Shah of Iran landed in the southern Egyptian resort city of Aswan. A different journalist wrote a scoop – that was entirely fake.

9 February 2020 By Paul Martin

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Exclusive: How I met the British Double Killer Languishing in a Baghdad jail

1 January 2019 By Paul Martin

BAGHDAD – Strange things happen inside Baghdad’s Green Zone – a heavily fortified and powerfully patrolled area that makes attacks by militants less likely to succeed.