Alex is the longest-serving on-screen journalist on C4 News since the channel began. In more than 25 years he's covered over 20 wars; led major investigations and continues to front the programme from around the world.
His journalism has won several BAFTA and EMMY awards; two New York Film and TV Awards and in 2011/12 he was named TV Journalist of the Year by the Royal Television Society.
He's written two books about the 1991 Gulf War and a travelogue about cycling across India.
He has been External Examiner at Cardiff and currently Bournemouth Schools of Journalism and is Honorary Fellow in Journalism at Falmouth School of Journalism.
When the public inquiry into the Horizon scandal resumes next month, Post Office executives will again be questioned over what they knew, when, and what they did about it.
An MP has accused Warwickshire Police of a ‘cover up’ over a secret deal they made with the Warwickshire Hunt.
What impact could the Moscow concert hall attack have on Ukraine? We spoke to the Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko and asked what the country now expects to happen.
When the Sycamore Gap tree next to Hadrian’s Wall was hacked down last September, apparently in an act of vandalism, it led to expressions of anger and sadness well beyond Northumberland. It also showed how we as a nation love ancient trees. Now the proposed loss of eleven trees, including an ancient 200-year-old beech, has…
It started with a court order, but ended with an out-of-court deal.
Iran counts Russia as a key ally. Iranian drone technology has helped Russia in its war in Ukraine. Both regimes have faced opposition on their streets – and have put them down brutally at times.
The World Health Organisation has managed to evacuate two groups of patients from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which Israeli forces raided on Thursday.
We know it’s been called the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history.
Labour’s u-turn comes on the day when the EU Climate Service said it was the first time global warming exceeded 1.5 celsius for an entire year.
They’re supposed to be offering full and fair compensation to thousands of victims whose lives were turned upside down.
It’s been almost two decades since fox hunting was banned in the UK.
It might have taken a drama to galvanise the response to a crisis – but the public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal is gradually bringing more details to light, as hundreds of victims seek justice for their ruined lives. The inquiry will be hoping to uncover more details when it examines a series…
We spoke to Ian Henderson from Second Sight forensic accountants, who were called in by the Post Office to investigate.
Alex Thomson explains developments at the inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal.
As the Post Office Inquiry continues to hear testimony, more and more details are coming to light about who knew what when.