Blog posts tagged "journalist"

March 31, 2010 8:30 am 29 Comments

I am grateful to David Raynes for his response to yesterday’s Snowblog concerning the way politicians deal with bad news. He’s quite right. It is quite possible that the reason the Minister doesn’t want to give me, or anyone else, an in depth interview about the ‘shambles’ in the Home Office drug area is because [...]

November 10, 2009 9:47 am No Comments

The mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan attacks Gordon Brown for equipment shortages. Jon Snow blogs on the messy business of war for politicians.

September 16, 2009 3:03 pm No Comments

He was the most tenacious, even ruthless correspondent I ever worked against. In the 1970s Brian Barron and I chased down the grim regime of Uganda’s President Idi Amin. We also reported on Kenyatta’s funeral in Kenya, and much else beyond. In learning of his death today from cancer, I feel one of my coordinates [...]