My debt to Ann Widdecombe
Somewhere at the bottom of the Fleet Street food chain is the hapless junior reporter known as the ‘milk bottle’.…
Trinidad is sick of Britain’s lax asylum system
As political speeches go, it struck familiar themes. An island nation was being overrun by dangerous criminals, taking advantage of…
Ukraine has entered the grey zone
Kharkiv, Ukraine In a bunker on the outskirts of Kharkiv, a group of rookie Ukrainian soldiers are learning the basics…
The less cosy side of Danish hygge
Judging by how well it fares in the annual UN World Happiness Report, there’s not much rotten in the state…
The Brits who fought in Ukraine deserve to be remembered
Last week, a West End arts venue hosted ‘Indomitable Ukraine’, a war artefacts exhibition with everything from prosthetic legs to…
Ukraine’s Foreign Legion was doomed from the start
It seems that people would rather fight for a death cult than a democracy. At most, 15,000 foreigners have fought…
Who replaces the ayatollahs if the Iranian regime falls?
The masked gunmen of Jaish al-Adl are probably not the kind of people Donald Trump had in mind when he…
Will Trump take a punt on Puntland?
As a man who views the world as one big real-estate portfolio, Donald Trump sees the potential in northern Somalia’s…
‘Trump is a coward’: meet the US soldiers who served in Ukraine
The Ukrainians of Alabama are not the kind of lobbyists whose visits strike fear into pro-Trump politicians in Washington. They…
Why does the beheading of Christians not make headlines?
The Congolese chapter of Islamic State has a ruthless way of stopping outsiders reporting their presence to the authorities. Under…
Ukraine wants its nuclear weapons back
Kyiv Had America and the Soviet Union ever fought the battle of Armageddon, it would have started from beneath a…
Could Europe send troops to Ukraine?
It is 2026, and in a downbeat speech at the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin finally announces a withdrawal from Ukraine. Russian…
Has the West forgotten about Ukraine?
When Hamas murdered 1,200 people on October 7, I was in eastern Ukraine, researching a long piece for the Telegraph…
The families of Israel’s hostages are living in hell
Yair Mozes, whose mother and father are among the 240 hostages kidnapped by Hamas, is trying to describe what it…
The Kremlin is sanctioning me – but why can’t they get my name right?
Journalists love being put on blacklists. In a profession that prides itself on holding the powerful to account, there’s no…
‘A figure that makes the country cry out’
Will mounting casualties change the debate in Ukraine?
Confessions of a royal paparazzo
I can still remember the shock of watching the news on Sunday, 31 August 1997 and learning that Lady Diana…
Soldiering on
A Brit’s life on Ukraine’s front line
Why ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ is still the best of the BBC
Radio Four recently broadcast a ‘Best of’ edition of From Our Own Correspondent, marking 100 years since the birth of…
Inside the court of King Zelensky
The first hint that my audience with Volodymyr Zelensky might not be what I’d hoped for came with the emailed…
Meet the British soldiers fighting in Ukraine
At his base near the frontlines outside of Kherson, an ex-British soldier named JK shows me a video of what…
Arms’ reach
Will guns from Ukraine end up on the streets of Britain?
How Russian drones are being used to spy on Kyiv
‘That used to be my neighbour’s Skoda,’ says Alexei Marchenko, as he points to a twisted lump of metal in the…
The reality of being ‘under siege’ in Kyiv
Kyiv, Ukraine I’ve never commuted into a warzone by train before, but I can now recommend it. The express train…
